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

  • Seebohm Rowntree
Date:
1902
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Licence: In copyright

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

    350/472 (page 314)
    STJPP. (1) What is the extent of the trade done, i.e. the number of persons entering the public- houses daily ? (2) What proportion of these persons are men, what proportion are women, and to what extent are children employed to fetch liquor ? (3) At what hours of the day are public-houses chiefly visited ? As the best way of obtaining this information, a careful and detailed study was made of a few houses situated in different parts of the city. Three public- houses were selected for observation,1 viz.—“ Av in a slum district, “B” in a busy thoroughfare, and “C” in a broad street on the border-line between a working- class and a wealthier residential district. We will consider the results of the study of these three houses in the order named. Public-house “A ” This is a small, dingy-looking house situated in a narrow street in the heart of a slum district. It has two entrances. Behind the bar is a small and some- what dirty parlour which accommodates about ten persons. No music is provided. In close proximity 1 At tlie time the above investigation was made (July to August 1900), the writer was under the impression that the three houses selected were typical of the public-houses in the city generally. More recent inquiry has, however, shown him that the three houses selected represent not the average trade done, but the trade done in the smaller public-houses. There are many public-houses in York doing much more trade than the three referred to here.