PAUPERISM

NZ Truth, Issue 568, 6 May 1916, Page 3

PAUPERISM

The facts we have to' face at present are (writes the London "Spectator") roughly these, that m spite of national insurance, m spite of old -age pensions, m spite of free meals for school children, unemployment committees, and of a vast system of private charity, pauperism shows only an insignificant decline.' In England and Wales at the end of May there were 621,000 paupers m receipt of relief. This figure la a trine better than In recent years, but that such a vast number of people should be classified as paupers at a time .when trade is abnormally active and when all these other systems of relief^aro m progress, is an appalling fact '