THE PATHETIC SIDE OF LIFE IN BRITAIN. The photo shows the inmates of a North London workhouse spending their Christmas Day playing dominoes. The reform of the poor law, and with it the workhouses, is one of the social problems facing the new Parliament. What human misery is entailed by the present system can only be ascertained by a perusal of the report of the famous Poor Law Commission which was published last year.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 25, 21 December 1910, Page 21
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74THE PATHETIC SIDE OF LIFE IN BRITAIN. The photo shows the inmates of a North London workhouse spending their Christmas Day playing dominoes. The reform of the poor law, and with it the workhouses, is one of the social problems facing the new Parliament. What human misery is entailed by the present system can only be ascertained by a perusal of the report of the famous Poor Law Commission which was published last year. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 25, 21 December 1910, Page 21
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