Housing : the facts & the future / by Harry Barnes.

  • Barnes, Harry, 1870-1935.
Date:
1923
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Credit: Housing : the facts & the future / by Harry Barnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from a reply by the Minister of Health to a question in the House of Commons on July 19* 1922. The number of houses is from the same source as in Table 42* Table 44—This table shows for the United Kingdom the number of men, both skilled and unskilled, engaged in the various building trades in 1891, 1901, and I9ii,and the percentage the trades bore to the total engaged. The figures are taken from the Census Returns. Table 45.—This table shows, out of the total men employed on the erection of working-class houses from January to June 1922, the ratio of unskilled to skilled. It is based on a reply by the Minister of Health to a question in the House of Commons on July 19, 1922. It will be seen that the ratio is very consistent, the lowest being 67 per cent, and the.highest JO per cent. Table 46.—This table shows the number of skilled men engaged in building trades at various dates from 1920, the proportion they bear to the total, and by means of a calculation—the total men engaged in the building trades \ the latter being obtained by taking laoourers at 70 per cent, of the skilled men employed, 70 per cent, being the highest figure in the previous table. The figures for January, 1920, are from a table sup¬ plied by the Ministry of Labour to the Industrial Council for the Building Industry. The figures for January to June, 1922, are from a reply by the Minister of Labour to a question in the House of Commons on April 11, 1923. The figures for February, 1923, are from a reply by the Minister of Labour to a question in the House of Commons on March 14, 1923. All the figures are compiled by the Ministry of Labour on the number of the Unemployment Books. Table 47.—This table shows for each year since 1865 the percentage of workmen unemployed and the yearly increase or decrease. It is taken from a reply by the Minister of Labour to a question asked in the House of Commons. The Minister stated that the figures are based on a return furnished to the Ministry of Labour by various Trade Unions which pay Unemployment benefit to their members. The percentages for some of the earlier years are partly computed from expenditure on unemployed benefit. The year 1912 was affected by the National Coal
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