The causes of poverty / by Callaghan McCarthy.

  • McCarthy, Callaghan.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The causes of poverty / by Callaghan McCarthy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the flow of services can, however, be only vaguely conceived by enumerating the principal agents, viz., crime, carelessness, ignorance, accidents, fires, explosions, floods, excessive rains, droughts, storms, plant diseases, animal diseases, insect pests, etc. With the United Kingdom, as suggested by an ordinary map, before our mind, we can, from the above conceive—firstly, the diffusion of human beings over its surface, the friction, idleness and destruction of human powers that take place amongst them, and the resulting stoppages in their yield of services; secondly, the benefits of nature that surround it, and the deficiencies in the services of heat, light, and moisture received therefrom; and, thirdly, its various items of property, and the restrictions that private ownership, mismanagement and destruction impose on their outflow of services. The conception, thus arrived at, of the stoppages occurring at the various sources of services within Great Britain and Ireland, may, in the case of human serivces, be made more definite by the follow- ing statistical measurements. With regard to human friction, such measurements are, of course, impossible; and figures could scarcely in any way improve the descriptions already given or the notions that they conveyed. But with regard to the extent of human idleness, such methods may here be use- fully employed. In doing so, we may proceed by setting forth the statistical evidences, by briefly referring to their sources and defects, and by applying them to enlarge our knowledge of idleness. From those between the age of 15 and 65, the great
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