POVERTY IN ENGLAND.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12467, 17 February 1909, Page 3

POVERTY IN ENGLAND.

'BE PORT. OF INSPECTORS. [Pkess Association.— Copybight.] ■i. London, Feb. 15. The inspectors of the Looal Government Board state that though the inmates have increased dnring 1908, the indoor cost of pauper's in London has fallen by £50,000, whereof one-half represents Poplar. "yXTnioa inspectofs ' comment' on the consumption of alcohol in the provinces. ■ ■,-:- One sick ward cost £53 yearly a head. . ■.•-■"'■ {jyrhe inspectors agree that the Unemployed Actjj haß.*;proquced<a^bad effect in the shape, of growing} dependence oh the public funds instead of on individual effort..:,..