Inquiry into the educational and other conditions of a district in Ancoats : report of the committee, read at a meeting of the Society held November 15th, 1865 / by Henry Carne Oats.

  • Manchester Statistical Society (Manchester, England)
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[1865]
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Credit: Inquiry into the educational and other conditions of a district in Ancoats : report of the committee, read at a meeting of the Society held November 15th, 1865 / by Henry Carne Oats. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Table XII. shows that in 310 cases, or 89'29 per cent, of the families, the entire income of the family is provided by the head of that family, whether man or woman, alone. In 10 families, father, mother, and children all contribute,—that is, in 2-26 per cent, of the families which comprise father, mother, and children, and T27 per cent, of all the families in the district. In 8 cases, or T01 per cent, of the families, the wife is the sole support of the family, although she has a husband. In 28 cases, or 3-55 per cent, of the families, the children are the sole support of the family, although in these cases there is a father; and in 42 other cases, or 5'32 per cent, of the families, the children are again the sole support, in which cases there is a mother but no father. Other facts of a similar nature may be gathered from Table XII. The information obtained respecting the income of the family is given in Table XIII. Even on this subject, the most difficult to deal with, a positive refusal has only been met with in 10 cases. In 43 cases the answer has been that they cannot tell their income; in some instances this is probably only a more polite form of refusal, but in many this answer has been given by small shopkeepers, who perhaps would have a real difficulty in estimating their income. In only five families is there the return of no income at all. The remaining 731 families have stated their income, giving it for father, mother, and children separately. It may not unreasonably he expected that these statements are often under rather than over the mark, and indeed, in some cases, it was evident to the visitor, from the appearance and number of the family, and other circumstances, that this was so. The average income, however, of each family, as stated, amounts to 18s. lid. per week, or 4-9Is. per head. For the details respecting income, Table XIII. must be referred to. The above income includes the payments of lodgers, of whom it appears from Table XIV. there are 59 who do not pay anything, and 223 who pay on an average Is. 2 4d. per week. Only one person throughout the whole district has acknowledged to having any money in the savings bank ; and that is the case of a woman who recently lost her husband by a railway accident, aud the money in the bank is the sum she received as compensation.
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