''If, in the highlands the people were trying to exist upon a diet of boiled grass and nettles, the case was even worse in the City wynds. Within a circle of 12 miles of Glasgow there were 10,000 paupers receiving, on an average, not more than 1/6' per week.''- Part 1 tomorrow

The child serfs in the West of Scotland bleachfields were being worked from eleven to eighteen hours daily, in stoves heated from eighty to one hundred degrees; at Pollockshaws, children were occasionally worked two and three days and nights consecutively.

The whig Act of 1851 regulating magisterial punishment of young children allowed a sentence of thirty six lashes.

The census returns for 1861 showed that one-third of the population of Scotland lived in single-roomed houses and 7,964 of these houses had no windows.

In port Glasgow, a stable had been converted into a dwelling-house and during the whole summer, that stable contained 83 persons, besides a horse.

In Glasgow 50% of children died under five years of age.

In the first 40 years of the 19th century some 350,000 strangers were suddenly huddled on the banks of the Clyde, where they suffered periodical decimation by typhus

The Rev. Dr Lee testified that he had never seen such misery as in his parish, where the people were often without furniture, without everything, two married couples often sharing one room. In a single day he had visited seven homes in which there was not a bed, in some, not

even a heap of straw. Old people of 80 yrs slept on the board floor, nearly all slept in their day clothes.

In the spring circuit court in Glasgow, 1864, Hugh Gray, for stealing a woollen skin, gets 8 yrs penal servitude. Mary Love, for stealing three yards of drugget (a coarse woven fabric used to make floor coverings) from a hedge, gets 6 yrs. A man, Dogherty, by name, gets 3 yrs

for stealing a cloth cap from a shop door-way. Jane Campbell steals fourpence-ha'penny in copper and gets 15 months but Alexander Still, for killing a man with a poker, gets six months prison time.
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Property was sacred, not life.

part 2 tomorrow