Procrastination of Death

From Charles Booth's Life and Labour of the People in London: 

Life to large numbers of married women in the East End is nothing more than procrastination of death. They bear children and bury them. Their minds have been starved and their senses dulled. "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" might well be inscribed above the entrance to the Red Church. For these women but little can be done. The position of the married woman can only be affected through the better education of the child, the training of the girl, and through everything that tends to raise the man morally and industrially.

From a 1970 reprint of the seventeen-volume third edition published between 1902 and 1904.