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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    School Board rate in York, 341 Schools, number of, in York, 333 percentage of attendance at, 334 See also under “ Board Schools ” and “Voluntary Schools” Annual Report of late Inspector of, quoted, 334 Science and Art school, grant for, 385 fees of, 385 Scotland, average size of family in, 82 “ Secondary ” poverty. See under “ Poverty ” Servant-keeping class, number of, 28 (and footnote), 31 housing of, 161 diet of, 251-256, 259, 428 mortality of children in, 206, 208 See also under “ Budgets ” Servants (domestic), relation of, to inquiry, 14 number of, 26 (footnote), 28 (foot- note), 31 relation of, to size of family, 81 relation of, to family income, 84, 112 estimated average earnings of, 84. total earnings of, 391 Sewerage, expenditure on, 385 Sheffield, percentage of population over- crowded in, 171 number of “on” and “off” licenses in, 308 School Board rate in, 341 (footnote) proportion of paupers to population in, 365 Poor Law relief in, 368, 374 Skelder^ate Bridge, sinking fund, etc., 385 Skeldergate, population per acre in, 168 Slaughter-houses in slums, 153 relation of, to public health, 191 Slums, description of, in York, 5 housing in, 153 et seq. See also under “Overcrowding” South Shields, average number of per- sons per acre in, 167 Southampton, percentage of total tene- ments and houses in, 161 percentage of population overcrowded in, 171 number of “on” and “off” licenses in, 308 Stockholm, percentage of one-roomed tenements in, 161 Stockport, percentage of total tenements and houses in, 161 percentage of population overcrowded in, 171 “Strays,” number of, and profits accru- ing from, 113 Street improvements, expenditure on etc., 385 Street repairs, lighting, etc., expenditure on, 385 government grant for, 385 Sunderland, percentage of population overcrowded in, 171 number of “on” and “off” licenses in, 308 School Board rate in, 341 Switzerland, average size of family in, 82 Temperance. See under “Drink” “ Ticketed houses,’’number of, 175 (foot- note) Trade Unions, number of members of, 349 sick benefits of, 356, 357 See also 434-441 Trades Council in York, 350 “Unfit,” problem of the, 46, 366 United States, average size of family in, 82 U.S.A. Department of Agriculture, publi- cations of, quoted, 167, 243, 257, 261 (footnote) Vagrants, number of, in York Union, 372 food supplied to, 374 Vital statistics, York, 192 et seq. birth and death rates in typical areas, 199, 202-204 birth and death rates in York, com- pared with other towns, 193 causes of mortality among children, 207 deaths classified according to disease, 197 general death-rate in typical areas, 204-208 mortality of children in typical areas, 205 mortality of infants in typical areas, 206 prevalence of typhoid fever, 197 Voit, quoted, 92, 93 Voluntary schools, number of, in York 333 average attendance at, 334 description of, 335, 336 curriculum of, 338 teaching staff' of, 339 cost of maintenance of, 342 income of, 342