The London Poor.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 172, 14 February 1888, Page 2

The London Poor.

The result-of the remarkable inquiry recently conducted into the position of the population of part ol the East end

of iaviulon justifies the estimate that there must be m winter time over a million per ns in the Metropolis v» hose comluiuu is dim* ol acute suffering and distress. If they are not Iwxj* mg. they must starve or go to tho workhouse. It is shocking to know that feus of thousands of arß-aiui, who in fine ui at her can earn decent wages, are compelled for bread to part with every article they posse is of value, and often to break up their homes and seek the odious shelter of the House unless, indeed, private charity steps in to save them from ruin. Tlio question how to deal with this annually recurring destitution is one of the most difficult problems a stite-umn cun confront. It lias, in fact, never yet Ix-eii satisfactorily solved. Still, something iiuiy be done in many ways tocirruinNonbutlicevil. With nil tins pauperism m our midst, it is surely worse than folly to permit foreign paupers to land at pleasure and in any numb, i on our shore . No oilier civile. I country in the world is guilty of such negligence. —Home paper.