Hereafter, when considering the pecuniary means of defraying the expense of sanitary measures, it will be shown how much less of such consequences in most districts than may be supposed is ascribable to absolute poverty or real inability to pay for better accommodation. To obviate even immediate impressions of this description, I might adduce much evidence of the character of the following testimony of _Mr. J. Thomson_, of Clitheroe:— “What is the number of persons whom you have in your employment?—Men, women, and children, between 900 and 1000. “Are you the owner of any of the tenements where they reside?—Very few; not more than 12 or 15. “What description of tenements are they?—Houses with two rooms above, two rooms below, and a yard; and letting at a rent of from 7_l._ to 8_l._ per annum. These are occupied by foremen in various departments, and the better description of artisans. “What wages do this description of persons earn?—Various, from 30_s._ to 3_l._ weekly; averaging, perhaps, 2_l._ weekly; out of which they pay 3_s._ per week for rent. “What is your experience in respect to the habits of the workpeople in these tenements?—The remark which I have to make is on the very low state of feeling prevalent amongst even a high class of workmen as to decency or propriety. The tenements sufficed for them when they were young, but when the female children become young women, and the boys advance to puberty, and decency requires them to have separate rooms, the usual practice of the parents is to take the young women into their own sleeping-rooms. I have one highly respectable foreman who has one daughter aged 20, and another aged 22, sleeping on each side of the bed in which himself and his wife sleep. The next bed-room is filled with the younger children of both sexes, boys and girls, up to 16 years of age. The earnings of this family must have been 50_s._ per week. The rent they paid was 3_s._ weekly, which was little more than the interest on the money invested. I have remonstrated on the indecency of such habits, and on their bad effects, but the expense of the extra shilling a-week for a house with another bed-room was considered a sufficient answer to my remonstrance. In my own tenements I have built the additional room, and notwithstanding the remonstrances, I have required the additional rent. When they have remonstrated, I have told them of the fact, that the cost of the additional room would only be a beneficial deduction from the money spent in liquor.”