THE AGED POOR.
London, Murch 29. The majority of those engaged for the past two yetrs as a Royal Commission to enquire into the question of the aged poor, report that they cannot deolarfr m favour tor Stile pensions owing to financial and economic reasons, and further, that the statement of aged laboorere generally that tbeir prospect was the workhouse is erroneous. Lord Brassey favours that wider relief should be extended to the poor. The report stated that to adopt State pensions woaid involve a continaovs charge of £2,000,000 for forty, years prior to it* scotLiag effective, and then would not •aoh the rbrif ttess. .
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XVI, Issue 1640, 3 April 1895, Page 3
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