Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree.

  • Seebohm Rowntree
Date:
1901
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Credit: Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    truth and falsehood, and in doubtful cases the facts stated were checked by neighbours and others. The investigation was begun in January 1899, but comparatively little headway was made until March, and the work was practically finished by the following September. The bulk of the inquiry was therefore completed within about seven months. In such a period the results of an inquiry must neces- sarily be affected by removals, but these inaccuracies tend to balance each other, and do not materially affect final results. I have had opportunities of submitting the facts and figures thus obtained to clergymen, “ district visitors,” and others having special local knowledge, who have, in almost every instance, corroborated the reports furnished. Some errors must necessarily exist in a detailed inquiry of this kind, but I am satisfied that the information obtained is substantially correct. Character of the Information Obtained A few sample pages from the note-books of the investigators will most clearly show the kind of information with which I have been supplied. To prevent identification the names of the streets and the numbers of the houses have been omitted, and further, the order in which the houses come in the streets has been altered.
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