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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    (i) Abstract of York City Accounts for Year ending March 31, 1901 In determining large questions of municipal policy and considering whether the wealth and energy of the city is being advantageously expended, valuable thoughts may be gathered from an examina- tion of the expenditure of the city. What relation, for instance, does the expenditure under the heads of crime and pauperism on the one hand bear to that for education and recreative agencies on the other ? Or, if the city is engaged in municipal trading of any kind, does such trading result in gain or loss ? In the same way an examination of the various sources of municipal revenue is likely to throw light both upon municipal and national finance, by showing the amount of the grants from the central purse in aid of the municipal purse and the relation which such grants bear to the amount raised by the rates. As the accounts of the city, in their ordinary form, are difficult to understand, the writer has prepared the following Abstract, in which the main items arc set forth more simply :— [Abstract