| Show GERMAN astonishing statistic Stati from the lower classes gazette somo startling and painful facts brought to light at a conference of the societies for the promotion of morality held last month in berlin in a paper on the housing of the poor in berlin it was elated that half of the dwellings consist of one room to which in some rare cases a small cupboard like one is attached in one of these rooms are often found sleeping from ten to fifteen persons old and young nun and more sleep in cellars and attics in one house as many as 2000 persons are to be found herded together the number of illegitimate births in berlin is ag per cent or double the number in london the prices paid for rooms are very high and one consequence of this is that many of the prostitutes in berlin are received into families as lodgers with a view to the lessening of the rental they are the ladies of the house and lioio parents and children shun them and the latter seeing the idle life these lodgers live and the beautiful clothes they wear soon learn tu enter on the awful course |
