The Reconstruction of Moscow

as the bourgeoisie is in power. If a worker under the capitalist system does get the chance to break away from the slums, and remove to more or less decent living quar- ters, the higher rents affect his budget in such a way as to leave him insufficient money for food. Thus, according to the report of a British medical officer of health. Dr. M'Gonigle, the death rate among workers in England who have removed to better quarters has increased by 0.85 per cent in comparison with the death rate among workers who remain in the slums. Making an analysis of this apparent anomaly, M'Gonigle explains that removals from slums to new houses involved an increase of more than one and a half times in rent. Thus the worker had to cut down expenses on food dras- tically. And this further starvation of the workers could not but result in an increase in mortality in the new houses.

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