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Yours truly James Greenwood (picture of Greenwood)

THE
SEVEN CURSES OF LONDON.

 

By JAMESGREENWOOD,
The “Amateur Casual.”

 
 
 

LONDON:
STANLEY RIVERS AND CO.

p.iiiCONTENTS.

I. Neglected Children.

CHAPTER I.
STARTLING FACTS.

The Pauper Population.—PauperChildren.—Opinions concerning their properTreatment.—A Hundred Thousand Children loose in LondonStreets.—Neglected Babies.—Juvenile “MarketProwlers”

page 1

CHAPTER II.
RESPECTING THE PARENTAGE OF SOME OF OURGUTTER POPULATION.

Who are the Mothers?—The InfantLabour-Market.—Watch London and BlackfriarsBridges.—The Melancholy Types.—The Flashy, Flaunting“Infant.”—KeepingCompany.—Marriage.—The Upshot

p. 13

CHAPTER III.
BABY-FARMING.

“Baby-Farmers” and Advertising“Child-Adopters.”—“F. X.” ofStepney.—The Author’s Interview with FarmerOxleek.—The Case of Baby Frederick Wood

p. 29

CHAPTER IV.
WORKING BOYS.

The London Errand-Boy.—His Drudgery andPrivations.—His Temptations.—The London Boy afterDark.—The Amusements provided for him

p. 58

p. ivCHAPTER V.
THE PROBLEM OF DELIVERANCE.

Curious Problem.—The best Method ofTreatment.—The “Child of the Gutter” not to beentirely abolished.—The genuine Alley-bred Arab.—ThePoor Lambs of the Ragged Flock.—The Tree of Evil in ourmidst.—The Breeding Places of Disease and Vice

p. 76

II. Professional Thieves.

CHAPTER VI.
THEIR NUMBER AND DIFFICULTIE

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