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by scanty of employment; or inadequate wages. And yet, we have been assured, that in this city, there is no necessity to organize societies for the relief of distress, while well-meaning ladies arc at a loss to know how to do any good in the world."

The Banner of Light, in commenting on the above, says:

Again, to give a view of the way the poor live in New York, I quote the following from one of the annual Reports of their Board of Health:

"Sixteen thousand tenement houses—that is, rookeries,