[3] “Case I.—The family whose total earnings consist of £2 2s per week, consist of the father and mother, who sleep in one bed; a married son and his wife who sleep in the second bed; a grown up daughter who, with two boys of twelve and fourteen years of age, sleep together on a bed on the floor; the whole family being in the same room.
“Case II.—H. H. earns two shillings a day as a laborer—was brought up as a farmer, and had property to the amount of 2000 pounds, which he has dissipated—has a wife and five children—the eldest of whom is 13 years, the youngest 5 years; they have only one bed, upon which the parents sleep; the children sleeping on the floor as they best may.
“Case III.—D. M., with his family, makes 30 shillings per week; his daughter, with a bastard child about two years old, a son about 16, another of 13, and a daughter of 10 years of age, making, with his wife, seven in all, sleep in the same room, with two beds.
“Case IV.—J. G. has a father and mother who live with him; he and his wife sleep in one bed; his father and mother in another; his two grown up sisters in a third; his brother, a lad of 19, and a young man lodger, ‘who is courting one of his sisters,’ in a fourth: all in the same room. J. G. does not know, or will not tell, how much they all make, but thinks it ‘a good bit,’ as his wife and sisters and brother are at farming, himself on a fruit ground, and his father a laborer.”
Dr. Holland furnished Dr. Playfair with the following, in the case of one of his dispensary patients: “D. E. is a widower, with one sleeping apartment, in which sleeps his adult son and daughter. The latter has a bastard child which she affiliates on the father, he upon his son, and the neighbors upon both.”
[4] Boston Correspondence of the New York Recorder, January 1849.
[5] Opened May 15, 1848.
[6] 39 of dysentery in August and September.
[7] Mrs. Fry’s views, when fairly presented and properly understood, were altogether in favor of separation, and can never be justly cited against it.
[8] [Article VI. has been altered so as to make it require twenty dollars for a life contribution, and two dollars for an annual contribution.]