text:  The widow and the orphan as well as the poor will be always with us; but the peculiar circumstance which renders their condition so deplorable in the dense and suddenly peopled manufacturing districts is that the poor have been brought together in such prodigious numbers that all the ordinary means of providing for the relief of such casualties fails; while the causes of mortality among them are periodically so fearful as to produce a vast and sudden increase of the most destitute classes altogether outstripping all possible means of local or voluntary relief