LONDON'S PAUPERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 6 February 1909, Page 1

LONDON'S PAUPERS.

A STARTLING EETUEN. One of tbe most disheartening features of last year in London was the terrible growth of pauperism. At the present time the "richest city in the world" contains over 130,000 persons in receipt of poor relief. This means that about 27 people out of every thousand Londoners are wholly or partly dependent on the rates. The number is greater than in any y.ear siuce 1870, and represents an addition of over 27,0C0 to the number of paupers recorded at the.beginning of the present century. Thfi-jexaet figures, as' given in the latest return«of the Local Government Board, ', r are!' 130,543. Of: that number 81,506' are classified as indoor paiipercy and 49,037 as receiving outdoor relief. Compared with thoseiof 1907 the figures 6how-i T,afi increase s of 4478, and withithose of 1906 an increase of 7408. r There.late,- of course, many theories as toith^ause of this great growth" of paupex}sm..j;;jln, < Eome respects it may,;be regardea;4^^?P t<)lnatic °f the- amount Of. unemployment which Has Vas been-'prevalent during tbe- year. lax systeni !of; ontdooV relief in . ,ma>y districts, coupled with, the indoor'pampering methods in' oth^rs^ias, howijyjr,' | undoubtedly assis&d- materiall y^. to 1" 'increase the number of person's in receipt of .poor law relief: The;:"Administration of ,thVpoor.law. jojE London*is in the' hands of 31 separate-bodies, with . different ideals and;methods, and something like tEree millions and a half per an-:. num are spent in maintaining^ '. 60,000' indoor paupers, and over 18,000 persons in: asylums. '' Th-? ■ sa|aries !,alone of officials* responsible'; f.pr "the y ' adlriinistra.tion of the JBaflt.liaji .run..to Bp.methiiig like £860,000:' .That London gets '-value for the'money spent'on the'-pauperaor on; the salaries .paid to officials nobody be-: lieves. Until,.,' howeverOioniething is done in ■the' Way.-of ceibtMlising'the.^worSand^systfmising tHe methods of pobr"rs-. Itef, no befer^Tesults. are likely-io be 6bl .tamed. ; *. -^ i-t:fiKf fi

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