I have told you that in 1881 the population of Glasgow was 511520 persons and that of those 25% lived in one room and 45% in two rooms:but what does this mean? Generalities are so feeble. The joyful and the sorrowful are there men are dying there men are being born men are praying on the other side of a brick partition men are cursing and all around them is the vast void. It is those small houses which produce the high death rate of Glasgow. It is those small houses which give to that death rate the striking characteristics of an enormous proportion of deaths in childhood. Their exhausted air and poor and perverse feeding fill our streets with bandy legged children