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

  • Seebohm Rowntree
Date:
1902
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Credit: Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SUPP. in their old age, are obliged to associate with others whose poverty is due to drunkenness and vice. The work done by the able-bodied paupers is chiefiy confined to chopping and bundling wood for sale in the city; in addition to this they give a certain amount of assistance in the house. The Brabazon Scheme,1 by which useful occupations are provided for the infirm inmates, and which has been instituted with such good results in many Work- houses, has not been introduced in York. A proposal was recently made to adopt it, but was not persisted in. The tables on pages 370-372 give the diet pro- vided in the Workhouse. The following table shows the net cost of in- maintenance in York and in five other Workhouses for the year ending Lady Day 1900 :— Town. Average No. of In- mates for Year end- ing Lady Day 1900. Net Cost of In-Maintenance per Head per Week. Provi- sions in- cluding Wines and Spirits. Neces- saries. bb a IS +3 o 8 Furni- ture and Pro- perty. Build- ings and Repairs. CO JD c3 m 1 Surgery and Dispensary. General less Credits. Total.L York Kings ton-upon-Hull Bradford . Holbeck . Leeds Sheffield . 498 687 787 137 1240 1411 s. d. 2 91 3 1 4 1 2 ’ 8 3 4£ s. d. m 1 4 1 32 3 10 1 li 11 d. 5f 51 31 4| 51 s. d. 31 6 1 21 61 5 s. d. If 10i 101 1 102 s 101 s. d. 91 2 5 2 10J l'ioi 2 01 d. 1 1 4i 2 32 d. 1 2 li 9’ s. d. 5 5i 8 91 11 lX 5 S| 7 5 9 If Children.—The number of children in York Workhouse on January 1, 1901 was 70. Although theoretically they are forbidden to mix with the adult paupers, it is very difficult in a Workhouse 1 Organising Secretary, Miss Bellson, 33 Lancaster Park, Richmond, Surrey.