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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    London, size of tenements in, 161 proportion of population overcrowded in, 171 Manchester, average number of persons per acre in, 167 percentage of population overcrowded, 171 number of “on” and “off” licenses, 308 School Board rate in, 341 (footnote) Manchester Guardian, The, quoted, 105 (footnote) Mansion House, cost of, 385 Markets, income and expenditure of, 384 Cattle market, 384 Parliament Street, 384 Marriage Statistics in other Countries, 401 Marriages, statistics of, among skilled and unskilled workers, 138, 400 Meat supply, relation of, to public health, 191, 402 Meteorological conditions of York and other towns, 183 Midden privies. See under “Sanitation,” especially 186 Middlesboro’, School Board rate in, 341 (footnote) Milk supply, relation of, to public health, 191, 404 Miscellaneous, expenditure on, 386 Moleschott, quoted, 92 Mortality, rate of. See under “Chil- dren ” and “ Vital Statistics ” Mulhall, quoted, 26 (footnote) New York, average number of persons per acre in, 167 dietaries of labourers in, 257 Newcastle-on-Tyne, percentage of popu- lation overcrowded, 171 number of “on’’and “off” licenses in, 308 No Room to Live, quoted, 177 North-Eastern Pcailway, number of men employed by, in York, 9, 11 facilities granted by, 77 Northampton, number of “ on ” and “off” licenses in, 308 Norwich, average number of persons per acre in, 167 Notter and Firth, quoted, 171 Nottingham, average number of persons per acre in, 167 percentage of population overcrowded in, 171 Nottingham, number of “on ” and “off ” licenses in, 308 Nunnery Lane, population per acre in, 168 Occupations in Class “D,” 72 of those in “primary” poverty, 123, 125, 127, 129, 131 of overcrowded householders, 178 Overcrowding, definition of, 169 particulars as to, 58, 153, 179, 200, 301 average number of persons per acre, 166 compared with other towns 167 in working-class districts, 168 in London districts, 169 number of persons per room, 169, 301 compared with other towns, 171, 175 (footnote) relation of, to air space, 171 et seq. ventilation and, 175 relation of, to early marriages, 140 relation of, to poverty, 176, 302 relation of, to morality, 177 causes of, 178 remedy for, 179 Parliament Street Market, income and expenditure of, 384 Paton, Dr., quoted, 92, 97 Pauper lunatics, 384 Pauperism, expenditure on, 384 Government grant for, 384 Paupers, number of, 365 proportion of, to population, 365 classification of, 366 work done by, 368 children, 368, 372 maintenance of, 384 “Pavement” (York), derivation of name, 2, 3 (footnote) Pawning, habit of, 59 Pearson, Professor Karl, quoted, 210 Pensions, number of persons over 65 “in poverty” who would receive, 378 number of persons directly or in- directly affected by, 379 probable effect of, on poverty in York, 375 total possible reduction of poverty in York by, 379 Philadelphia, average number of persons per acre in, 167