...spring forward on any chance to earn a copper, the ready materials for disorder when occasion serves. They render no useful service, they create no wealth: more often they destroy it ... The 'very poor' with casual earnings add up almost exactly to 1 1.25% of the whole population ....

...savages. . . . From them come the battered figures who slouch through the streets and play the beggar or bully. They render no useful service, they create no wealth; more often they destroy it."10 Booth admitted that those who washed "the mud may find some gems in it."11 But he gloomily concluded...

...poorest of London's poor: "Their life is the life of savages, with vicissitudes of extreme hardships and occasional excess. From them come the battered...touch, and as individuals are perhaps incapable of improvement"12 At a time when the propagation of a solid consumer base was instrumental to the perpetuation...

...spring forward on any chance to earn a copper, the ready materials for disorder when occasion serves. They render no useful service, they create no wealth:...individuals, are perhaps incapable of improvement ; they may be to some extent a necessary evil in every large city ; but their numbers will be affected...

...through the streets, and play the beggar or the bully, or help to soil the record of the unemployed. * * They degrade whatever they touch, and as individuals are perhaps incapable of improvement." The head master of one of the London schools, containing above 400 children, reported to the county...