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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    Kingdom itself; and, in support of this assumption, we have, in the first place, Mr. Booth’s own belief already referred to, and from which, we concluded that the poverty of the people of London would approximately represent the poverty of the entire urban and rural population. We have, in the next place, the fact that the many aspects of London life reflect, at once, the individual aspects peculiar to other urban areas—it reflects the activities of manu- facturing areas, railway centres, seaports, dis- tributing centres, banking and commercial centres, professional centres, and various other attributes of urban areas in general. Finally, in the inflow of population from rural areas, we have a cause that continually operates to equate the conditions of metropolitan and rural life. For these reasons, the picture presented by Mr. Booth may be enlarged in the following, but with a few minor additions that can afterwards be more easily explained. Statement relating to the Expenditure of the People of the United Kingdom:— Average Percentage Weekly Ex- of the Number of Male penditure Population Adults equi- per Male belonging valent to Total Total Adult 1 :o each Class Population Annual (same as in (same as in (calculated Expenditure London, London, in accordance (calculated figures in figures in with from italics italics Mr. Booth’s Columns excepted). excepted). method). II. and IV. Class. s. d. £ A 5 II I.O 310,000 4,768,000 B 5 II 8.4 2,604,000 40,058,000 C. D. • 7 4 22.7 7,037,000 134,172,000
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