Holborn 19·4 St. George’s-in-East 22·9 Bethnal Green 34·7 St. Saviour’s 22·9 St. Olave’s 19·5 Shoreditch 20·9 Whitechapel 25·2 Stepney 21·8 Greenwich 19·6 Poplar 18·9 Westminster 15·1 City 17·5 Islington 14·6 St. Pancras 14·7 Camberwell 17·2 Wandsworth 17·5 Marylebone 13·9 St. Giles’ 16·6 Mile End Old Town 26·5 Lambeth 17·3 Woolwich 17·1 Fulham 19·3 Chelsea 14·5 Strand 14·0 Kensington 12·9 Hackney 13·9 St. George’s, Hanover Square 10·6 Lewisham 12·1 Hampstead 9·4 As girl marriages are more common among the poorer half of East London, and as, unfortunately, in a large number of cases, the legal ceremony only takes place, if it takes place at all, in time to legitimise the offspring of the union, it is obvious that girl marriage is extremely common in the class of which I am speaking. When the husband earns regular wages, even though they may be small, the wife does not as a rule go to the factory, nor even take work out to do at home, for the first few years of her married life. But many factory girls return to work the day after they are married, and those who leave it for several years often return as soon as one of the children is old enough to leave school. Married labour is, of course, irregular labour, and many employers discourage it as much as possible. But it is most to be deprecated on account of the effect on the children. It is unfortunate that the Census returns, as at present tabulated, give us no means of estimating the extent of the evil. We do not need to know whether men engaged in different occupations are married or single; but there is no fact of more importance with regard to female labour, and the value of such a return would more than balance the expense. The factories where the work cannot be given out (as is the case in match, jam, and cigar factories) contain the largest percentage of married women; and if called upon to choose the less of two evils, married labour in the factory and home work, I should unhesitatingly decide in favour of home work, which, if well organised, need not even be an evil.