PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1013, 31 December 1910, Page 9

PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND.

WHERE IT IS HIGHEST. Lord Georgfl Hamilton, in : an address -to tile Statistical Society in November, pointed.out that pauperism is. highest in the east and centre of England, lowest in the north. .How striking.-is'the contrast one' may seo bv a single glance at the map published in, : "Social Conditions": Blue-book issued last year by' the Local Government Board. And it is a contrast as: significant as it.is striking. London and Liverpool, with their great, mass i>f casual labour immediately or ultimately dependent- upon the docks, stand out a's black spots. There are a ferr anomalous cases; but in general one finds that'pail-: neristn is most•-severe,-.hot in the great industrial centres (many, of which, have very, low rates indeed),'; but in the preat. agricultural belt which runs across England from Dorsetshire to the Wash. It is the agricultural laboiirer and his fellows, not the skilled artisan, who coiitri-; bute most largely to tho population;of the workhouses; and few things will contribute so' much to'the decline of pauperism as the securing of an/adequate livelihood, and of opportunity to provido for old age,' to the rural worker."