THE POOR OF LONDON
NEARLY ONE-TENTH BELOW POVERTY LINE 1 ’ NEM PL< >YMENT RESTTLT (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London. March 1. Tlte percentage of London’s ]spallation living below the poverty line is !)) per cent, compared with 30 per cent, in 188!). The total today is 400,000, of whom 54.000 are in institutions. Unemployment is usually the cause of poverty also an insufficient wage. Twotliirds of flic working class families had wages 10s above the minimum. There are 200.000 Jews in Greater London compared with >55.000 in 188:1
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Feilding Star, Volume 11, Issue 4181, 2 March 1934, Page 4
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