PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND.
•■ - .-■-.-■• ■- -■■ . ■■• ■ INCREASING FIGURES. , By Telegraph.—Press Association.— London, November 22. The local Government Board, report that the paupers of England at the I « beginning of 1905 numbered nearly a million, being an increase of 63,000 for the year. The patipers in London numbered 126,000, ! ; These seevp. : stupendous/ figures, but they require analysing-. For the year ended March 25,"1904;'. the mean number of paupers of all classes was 837,680, and: on March 25 the total was 869,000. sThese included indoor and outdoor paupers. Of. the outdoor ; paupers 14,433 were able-bodied men, and of the indoor 25,474 were males of all ages. The rest of the 869,000 were females, i crippled y males, ■ children, pauper lunatics, and , vagrants. Since 1863 '" pauperism has decreased fin England from 53.9 per " 1000 to 21.9 in 1901, 22.1 in 1902, /and 22.5 in 1903. On January 1, 1904, the number of persons relieved was 26 per 1000, ■ as compared with | 33 per 1000 in 1880. The. number of children I relieved in, 1904 was \ 215,854. In the year 1903-4 the* indoor paupers- of London numbered 71,474, and the outdoor paupers 50,665.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13032, 24 November 1905, Page 5
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