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 conditions. I pointed out, that while the workpeople are practically incapable of doing themselves this sanitary justice, they are unable to obtain any effective support from the paid adminstrations of the sanitary police.… The life of myriads of workmen and workwomen is now use lessly tortured and shortened by the never-ending physical suffering that their mere occupation begets.” In illustration of the way in which the workrooms influence the state of health, Dr. Simon gives the following table of mortality.

I now come to the so-called domestic industry. In order to get an idea of the horrors of this sphere, in which capital conducts its exploitation in the background of modern mechanical industry, one must go to the apparently quiet idyllic trade of nail-making, carried on in a few remote villages of England. In this place, however, it will be enough to give a