Sections 1 A town, such as London, where a man may wander for hours together without reaching the… 2 Hence it comes, too, that the social war, the war of each against all, is here openly declared. 3 True, it is only individuals who starve, but what security has the working-man that it may… 4 Let us investigate some of the slums in their order. 5 Nor is St. 6 "It contains 1,400 houses, inhabited by 2,795 families, or about 12,000 persons. 7 On Monday, Jan. 8 But in spite of all this, they who have some kind of a shelter are fortunate, fortunate in… 9 "It is indeed a monstrous state of things! 10 Let us leave London and examine the other great cities of the three kingdoms in their order. 11 "He had never before seen such misery as in his parish, where the people were without… 12 "These streets," 13 "In the older quarters of the city there are many bad districts, filthy and neglected, full… 14 "I have seen wretchedness in some of its worse phases both here and upon the Continent, but… 15 The great manufacturing district in the centre of the British Islands, the thickly peopled… 16 Other thickly populated districts are without any sewers whatsoever, or so badly provided as… 17 If we cross Blackstone Edge or penetrate it with the railroad, we enter upon that classic… 18 Among the worst of these towns after Preston and Oldham is Bolton, eleven miles north-west… 19 A mile eastward lies Stalybridge, also on the Tame. 20 Manchester lies at the foot of the southern slope of a range of hills, which stretch hither… 21 And the finest part of the arrangement is this, that the members of this money aristocracy… 22 And yet, in other respects, Manchester is less built according to a plan, after official… 23 The south bank of the Irk is here very steep and between fifteen and thirty feet high. 24 But besides this, the stream itself is checked every few paces by high weirs, behind which… 25 Above Ducie Bridge, the left bank grows more flat and the right bank steeper, but the… 26 Enough! 27 If I may use the word at all in speaking of this district, the ventilation of these streets… 28 Such is the Old Town of Manchester, and on re-reading my description, I am forced to admit… 29 The New Town, known also as Irish Town, stretches up a hill of clay, beyond the Old Town,… 30 These courts were built in this way from the beginning, and communicate with the streets by… 31 In the last-mentioned broad district included under the name Ancoats, stand the largest… 32 And as such cottages are often built but twenty or thirty years before the expiration of the… 33 Occasionally when an epidemic threatens, the otherwise sleepy conscience of the sanitary… 34 Southward from Great Ancoats Street, lies a great, straggling, working- men's quarter, a… 35 Dr. 36 If we cross the Irwell to Salford, we find on a peninsula formed by the river, a town of… 37 Such are the various working-people's quarters of Manchester as I had occasion to observe… 38 "As I passed through the dwellings of the mill hands in Irish Town, Ancoats, and Little… 39 It often happens that a whole Irish family is crowded into one bed; often a heap of filthy… 40 So much for the dwellings of the workers in the largest cities and towns. 41 The whole clothing of the working-class, even assuming it to be in good condition, is little… 42 As with clothing, so with food. 43 But these are by no means all the cases; they do not even form a fair average for a period… 44 These frauds are naturally not restricted to articles of food, though I could mention a… 45 Guardian, June 16, 1844, Rochdale Sessions.—Four dealers fined five to ten shillings for… 46 The habitual food of the individual working-man naturally varies according to his wages. 47 To sum up briefly the facts thus far cited.
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