BRITISH PAUPERS
PRESENT POSITION GROWING DEPENDENCE ONPUBLIC FUNDS. BAD EFFECT PRODUCED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, February 15. Inspectors of the Local Government Board state that, though the inmates of the asylums for the poor increased during 1908, the indoor cost of the paupers in London has fallen by £"50,000 a year, whereof one-half represents tho saving in the Poplar Union. Comment is made by the inspectors on tho consumption of alcohol in the provinces. One sick ward cost £2 13s yearly per head. Tho inspectors agree that the Unemployed Act has produced a bad effect, in the shape of a growing dependence on tho public funds instead of a willingness to make individual efforts.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6745, 17 February 1909, Page 5
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