reign of an epidemic a far smaller mortality than, for instance, Wolverhampton, Dudley, and Bilston, only a few miles distant. Cellar dwellings are unknown, too, in Birmingham, though a few cellars are misused as workrooms. > The lodging-houses for proletarians are rather numerous (over four hundred), chiefly in courts in the heart of the town. They are nearly all disgustingly filthy and ill-smelling, the refuge of beggars, thieves, tramps, and prostitutes, who eat, drink, smoke, and sleep here without the slightest regard to comfort or decency in an atmosphere endurable to
Glasgow es en muchos aspectos similar a Edimburgo, poseyendo los mismos callejones (wynds), las mismas casas altas. De esta ciudad el Artesano observa:
“La clase trabajadora forma aquí alrededor del 78% de toda la población (unos 300.000 habitantes) y vive en zonas de la ciudad que superan en miseria y sordidez a los rincones más bajos de St. Giles