Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX. Report by Mr. Cyril Jackson and Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law.

  • Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09
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1909
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Credit: Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX. Report by Mr. Cyril Jackson and Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX B to PART I., i. {a).* PAGE 1. Unemployment ctart for London only 158 \22\ 2. Census returns of London occupations 1881, 1891, 1901 158-159 [22-23] 3. Factory returns for four Metropolitan Boroughs, 1901 and 1904 160-161 [24-25] Charts:— A. Monthly Return of Trade Union Members unemployed in London, January, 1895, to October, 1906 B and C. Monthly Return of I'rade Union Members unemployed in London in 1902,1903, 1904, (Mr. W. H. Beveridge) - - - - Showing six occupations separately :— Building, furnishing and wood-working, engineering and shipbuilding, riverside labour, printing and bookbinding, leather trades D and E. Monthly Return of Metropolitan Pauperism for same period—indoor, outdoor, total Tables of figures upon which Charts A, B and C are based 162-165 [26-29] APPENDLK C. to PART L, i. (a)* Foreign trade of the United Kingdom—Summary for September, 1906 166 [30] Railway goods and mineral traffic receipts to end of September, 1906 167 [31'\ Foreign trade of the United Kingdom—Summary for October, 1906 168 [32] General summary of trade and shipping to end of August, 1906 ------169-170 [33-3^] Board of Trade Labour Gazette Employment Chart, 1906 -------- 171 [3S] PAKT II.—PARTICULARS AS TO THE UNEMPLOYED. APPENDIX D. 1. Ages of the unemployed applying for relief 172-185 [36-49] London Boroughs—Return to Board of Trade, December, 1905 - - - - - 172 [36] „ „ Compared \y\\A\ 1888 and 1903-4 173 [37] „ „ „ „ Stepney Borough Engineer's Register, 1902-3 - - 173 [37] „ „ Return of Central (Unemployed) Body, May, 1906 - - - -174 [38] „ „ Not strictly comparable with Census nor with 1894, owing to variation in basis - - 175 [39] Stepney Borough, Comparison of 1886, 1893, 1894, 1904, 1905 and 1906 - - - 176 [40] „ ,, (1906) Ages in different trades of applicants for relief- ... 175 [^q] Hackney and Finsbury (1906), Ages of carmen applying for relief 177 [41] Stepney (1906), Census ages in trades compared 177 [41] „ (1906), Ages of printers applying 177 [4J] Various Boroughs (1906), Variations in different districts 177 [4I] „ „ Number of men under twenty-five years of age - - - - 177 [^7] „ „ (1906), Number of men classified under the heading locomotion and transport 178 [42] „ „ Some considerations from Mr. Charles Booth's Life and Labour 178 [42] Various Boroughs (1906), Numbers appling from building trades 179 [43] „ „ Number over fifty-six \'ears of age in those districts - - - 179 [43] General Labourers, Number in the Census Returns (1901) - 179 [43] „ „ Compared with Unemployed of all classes 179 [43] Age of Unemployed Engineer's (analysed by the Board of Trade) 180 [44] Ages of Unemployed in seven Suburban Districts 180 [44] Ages of Unemployed on Provincial Registers 181-185 [45-49] Return by Local Government Board 181 [45] „ compiled from Reports of Distress Committees 181 [45] Ages in London and Provinces compared, 181 [45] Age percentages in various Provincial Boroughs 182 [46] Numbers of various ages in the Provincial B(»roughs 183-185 [47-49] APPENDIX F. 2. (f) Proportion of artisans and labourers on Distress Committee Registers - - -186-196 [62-72] Tabic of occupations published by the London Central Body 186 [6£] Classification into skilled and unskilled very difficult - - - - - - -187 [63] Board of Trade Returns under these heads 187-188 [63-64] Returns not uniform 188 [64] The building trades as classified in ceriain districts - lyg [65] It is the unskilled labourers and casual workers who apply to Distress Committees in the greatest numbers - -- -- -- - - -- --189 [65] Suburban districts—Table of biiildiiig trades classified 189-191 [65-66] * Tliis refers to the Menioiandiim defining the Enquiry w hicli Investigators are appointed to lUiderLake. (Fcr Meu)oranduin see p. 13 of Keport.) Note—Appendix E. -will he found in Mr. Jackson's Rei>ort on Boy Labour.
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