Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree.

  • Seebohm Rowntree
Date:
1903
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    Protein, amount of, in food purohased for one shilling, 238, 239, 250, 256 amount of, in workhouse dietary. 239 ^' amount of, derived from animal food, 240 amount of, derived from vegetable food, 241 amount of, derived from beverages, 241 relative absorption of, in various foods, 242 (footnote), 243 amount of, in various food-stuffs, 406 Public analyst, cost of, 385 Public Health. See under Health. Public-houses, number of, in typical areas, 199, 202 number of, in York, 307 proportion of, to total population, 308, 309 distribution of, 308 use of, for social purposes, 309, 361 music licenses in, 310-312 Christmas clubs in, 312 betting in, 313 number of, watched in present in- quiry, 314 number of persons entering, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 321, 322, 324, 325 social drinking in, 316, 318, 319, 322, 325 investigators'notes on, 316, 317, 318, 320, 325, 326 See also under Clubs and Li- censes Public institutions, number of persons in, 26 (footnote), 31, 376 Raine, Canon, quoted, 1 et seq., 6-8 Ramsay, Professor, quoted, 78 (foot- note), 79 (footnote) Rateable value of York, 384 Rates in the £, 384 per head of the population, 384 Recreation, expenditure on, 385 Recruits (army) physical condition of, 216 number of, examined in York, Leeds, Sheffield, 216 number of, ryected, 216 number of, below standard, 217 standard for 217 (footnote) causes of rejection of, 218 (and foot- note) statistics of, for United Kingdom, 219 ei seq Recruits (army), percentage of, from working classes, 219 (footnote) Registration and elections, • expenditure on, Rel igious instruction. See under Board Schools Rent, average, in York, 32, 40 (and footnote), 42, 47, 60, 65, 106, 107, 110, 149, 150, 151, 152, 164, 302 total of, in various gi'ouijs, 124, 126 128, 130, 132 relation of, to cost of land and buQd- ing, 162, 163 (and footnote) relation of, to income, 58, 65, 73,164, 165, 179, 244, 245 relation of, to overcrowding, 178 See also under Budgets Rent collectors, lady, 181 Richardson, Sir Benjamin, quoted, 169 Roads, flagging and paving, cost of, 385 Rowntree and Sherwell, quoted, 142, 220 Royal visit, expenditure on, 386 Riibner, quoted, 227 (footnote) St. Friis, quoted, 403 St. Helens, percentage of total tene- ments and houses in, 161 average number of persons per acre in, 167 percentage of population overcrowded in, 171 Salford, number of on and off licenses in, 308 San Francisco, average number of per- sons per acre in, 167 Sanitary Inspector, Chief, of Glasgow, quoted, 186 Sanitation, particulars as to, 43, 58, 73, 148, 160, 151, 152, 153, 155, 157 in typical areas, 200, 201 (and foot- note), 202, 203 (and footnote) relation of closet accommodation to, 184 seq. relation of water supjjly to, 187 relation of courts and yards to, 188- 190 relation of, to high death-rate, 194 relation of, to prevalence of tvphoid fever, 185, 197 Scarcroft Road, population jjer acre in, 168 School Board, history of, in York, 333 Attendance Officer.s' list of defective children, 215 government grant, 384 value of property, 387 work of, continuation classes, 74
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