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men are stricken clown in the very middle of their
career—that he who starts upon a City life at the
age of twenty, hardly stands a better chance in his
struggle for existence, than do the average of infants
when they are a year old; for in the one case he
only reaches to the age of forty-eight, and in the
other, with all the dangers of early life, they will
get to be forty-seven.
I have endeavoured to elucidate this in the fifth
table of the series, but I regret that it has not the
signification it deserves; for, although it shows how
the crowding of people into a limited space will
affect their mortality both as to number and age,
yet it will give you no idea of the extent to which
persons are aggregated in some of your worst
districts, nor will it show you how great are the
evils which are consequent upon it. These can be
learnt only from an actual inspection of the localities
themselves; and I may here mention such places
as Thompson's Rents, Providence Place, Blythe
Buildings, Reeve's Rents, Montague Court, Rose
Alley, Catherine Wheel Alley, Still Alley, Pea Hen
Court, and Gun Square, which belong to the NorthEast
District; Red Cross Square, Black Swan
Court, Black Raven Court, Three King Court, and
Crown Court, which belong to the South-East
District; The Sun Courts, Vine Court, Willis Court,
Smith's Court, and Bridgewater Place, which are
within the North-Middle District; Fann Court,