Volume 1

Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth.

Date:
1889-
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Labour and life of the people / edited by Charles Booth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    under the name of “ Foreign Immigration,” we have had a Committee of the House of Commons; and there has been the Committee of the House of Lords on the ‘‘ Sweating System,” which is still prolonging its labours. In addition, the whole question of Poor Relief has been laid open by another Committee of the House of Commons, and we have seen a succession of Mansion House inquiries on the same subject. ‘T'o meet this evident demand for information I offer the pages which follow. The facts as given have been gathered and stated with no bias nor distorting aim, and with no foregone conclusions. For the district inquiry, resulting in the division of the people into 8 classes, I have relied upon information obtained from the School Board visitors, of whom there are 66 in the district, and my tables are based on three assumptions : (1.) That the numbers of married men with school children in each section by employment imply a similar proportion im the same sections of married men without school children, and of other male adults. For the choice of employment is made before the epoch of school children, and the period of employment continued long after ; the fathers of the school children of the day are but a section of a block which contains, all the while, old men and young, married and single, those with children and those without, in every trade. Hence, having scheduled the heads of families with school children, I feel justified m dividing the other male adults in similar proportions. (2.) That hkewise the number of children of school age in each section implies the existence of brothers and sisters, older and younger, to be found living under the same home conditions. Hence I have added children and young persons of 13—20 to each section in proportion to the number of school children scheduled. (3.) That the condition as to poverty of those with
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