"The foregoing statistics show that there were at the beginning of the present year, in the Finsbury division-- "10,490 families consisting of 41,044 persons, living, each, in _one_ room only, and 17,210 families consisting of 82,215 persons, living, each, in _two_ rooms only, a total of 123,259 persons living in one or two rooms. "For every efficient elementary school in the division there are more than 8 public-houses, for there are in the division 111 efficient schools, while the public-houses number 912; the grocers' shops, 682; bakers' shops, 409; dairies, 350; coffee shops, 427; churches, 74; chapels, 32; mission rooms, 47; registered lodging-houses, 101." And then he summarised his figures for the City Division: Number of children of school age == 6,986 " " churches and chapels == 71 " " public-houses == 408 Number of families living, each, _in more than two rooms_ was 1,972, which is about 33 per cent. of the scheduled families. About 43 per cent. live, each, in 2 rooms only, and nearly 24 " " " 1 room only. The _Times_ commented, in a leading article, on this information. "Everywhere, and by all sections not immediately affected, the scandal and almost the absurdity of the brutish degradation of an enormous number of habitations in the greatest and most opulent city in the world are thoroughly recognised.... Habits of life such as lodgings of the kind now common among London workmen foster and encourage are a positive danger to the whole of society. Only by one rank is the question treated as of no pressing importance. That happens to be the body of persons directly interested. "... No more instructive contribution has been offered towards a clear perception of the dimensions of the problem than those given by Mr. Marchant Williams.... "Incidentally the census, by the School Board, of the classes it was founded to teach, contains the precise materials for informing the public of the extent of the overcrowding which has been shocking the moral sense of the nation. Formerly, when instances of overcrowding were cited, it might have been fancied they were exceptions or exaggerations. Mr. Williams' report allows of no possibility of a doubt. * * * * * "The Finsbury educational division contained, in 1881, a population of 503,851. Of these, 41,044 live in single rooms, at an average rate of four a room; 82,215 occupy suites of two rooms, at a rate exceeding four persons and three-quarters for each. For a family of two to monopolise a whole room is a luxury, and to possess two rooms is a marvel. Some rooms are made to hold ten, and many to hold six or seven....