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

  • Seebohm Rowntree
Date:
1902
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    Families, number living in separate houses, 146, 147, 149, 152 number living in tenements, 146 number overcrowded, 170, 176 Family earnings, estimation of, 29 average weekly, 32, 39, 40, 47, 54, 60 (and footnote), 65, 71, 83, 122, 125, 126, 128, 130, 165, 235, 244, 249 total, 40, 41, 42, 83, 122, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 391, 392 relation of, to rent, 164 relation of, to overcrowding, 178 See also under “Budgets” and “ Earnings ” Family expenditure, 40, 41, 42, 54 et seq., 124, 126, 128, 130, 132 minimum necessary, discussed, 87 et seq. minimum necessary, ascertained, 110, 296 on drink, 142, 237 See also under “Budgets,” “Clothing,” “Diet,” “Food,” etc. Fever hospital, expenditure on, 385 fees for use of, 385 Fines, city’s share of Police Court, 384 Fire Brigade, cost of, 386 Food, insufficiency of, 43 constituents and functions of, 88 quantity of, required, 89 et seq., 97 Dr. Dunlop’s investigations concern- ing, 94 kind of, required, 98 et seq. cost of, 103-106 expenditure on, 40, 42, 124, 126,128, 130, 132 relation of, to mortality of infants, 207 relation of, to industrial efficiency, 260 See also under “Budgets,” “Diet,” and “ Energy Value ” Food-stuffs, analysis of various, 406-407 Foss Navigation, dues of, 384 expenses of, 384 France, average size of family in, 82 Free library, cost of, 384 Freedom of city, cost of, during royal visit, 386 Friendly Societies, particulars of, 355-362 reports of Chief Registrar, quoted, 359 (footnote) Fry, Sir Edward, quoted 9 Gateshead, percentage of total tenements and houses in, 161 percentage of overcrowding in, 171 Germany, average size of family in, 82 Glasgow, percentage of overcrowding in, 171 “ticketed” houses in, 175 (footnote) Government grants for Agricultural Rating Act (1896), 384 conveyance of prisoners, 384 old turnpike roads, 385 pauperism, 334 police, 384 prosecutions, 384 relief of rates, 384 school board, 384 technical education, 384 Grant from Science and Art, 384 Groves, The, population per acre in, 168 Guildhall and Municipal Offices, ex- penditure on, 385 “Half-timers,” 334 Halifax, average number of persons per acre in, 167 percentage of population overcrowded in, 171 School Board rate in, 341 (footnote) Haxby Road, population per acre, 168 Health, Medical Officer of, quoted, 185, 197 Health, relation of, to number of persons per acre, 169 expenditure on Public, 183 general conditions of, 182 meteorological conditions and, 183 relation of drainage and sanitation to, 183 relation of closet accommodation to, 184-187 relation of water supply to, 187 relation of courts and yards to, 188-190 relation of meat and milk supply to, 191-192 See also under “Vital Statistics,” “ Recruiting,” “ Overcrowding,” and “Poverty” Report on, by Dr. Laycock, quoted 194-196 Hill, Dr., quoted, 159 Hill, Miss Octavia, quoted, 181 (foot- note) Holbeck, proportion of paupers to population in, 365 poor relief in. 368, 374 Holidays of working classes, 76 Gambling. See under “Betting