About 8,000,000 persons exist always on the borders of starvation. About 20,000,000 are poor. More than half the national wealth belongs to about 25,000 people; the remaining 39,000,000 share the other half unequally amongst them.
About 30,000 persons own fifty-five fifty-sixths of the land and capital of the nation; but of the 39,000,000 of other persons only 1,500,000 earn (or receive) as much as £3 a week.
In London 1,292,737 persons, or 37.8 per cent. of the whole population, get less than a guinea a week per family.
The number of persons in receipt of poor-law relief on any one day in the British Islands is over 1,000,000; but 2,360,000 persons receive poor-law relief during one year, or one in eleven of the whole manual labouring class.
In England and Wales alone 72,000 persons die each year in workhouse hospitals, infirmaries, or asylums.
In London alone there are 99,830 persons in workhorses, hospitals, prisons, or industrial schools.
In London one person out of every four will die in a workhouse, hospital, or lunatic asylum.
It is estimated that 3,225,000 persons in the British Islands live in overcrowded dwellings, with an average of three persons in each room.
There are 30,000 persons in London alone whose home is a common lodging-house. In London alone 1100 persons sleep every night in casual wards.