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The children have free dinners at school. The weekly expenditure
conies to 13s. 9½d., or just less than her weekly earnings;
it varied from time to time, but she" rarely had a shilling over
when she came to settle up at the end of the week."
The three foregoing cases suggest the following considerations:—
1. In each family isolation was impossible,—in each household
there was only one room and one bed.
There is, therefore, every fear that, in the near future, some
of the other occupants will be infected.
Under present conditions, the best course, in the interests of
the others, would be to remove the infected members, or the noninfected
members to the poor law infirmary or workhouse.
Generally, however, these poor people, so long as they have the
ability and prospect of earning any money, be it ever so little,
will not enter the poor house.

The disparity between the food expenditures of the second
family and of the others suggests the desirability of instruction
in the elementary schools, in continuation schools, and in the
homes of the patients, of the nutritive values of food substances,
of simple nutritious cooking methods, economical and devoid of
waste, and of thrifty household management.