The British Board of Trade has been conducting an inquiry into the cost of living of the working classes in the United Kingdom, and has issued a report thereon. It is found that tlio cost of living, including rent and coal, was between 11 and 12 per cent, higher in London than in the other 87 towns, taken as a whole. The rise in the cost of living (food and coal), so far as the articles covered by the inrjiiiry enter into the total expenditure of the working classes, increased by 13.7 per rent, in Hie period 11)05-12. and if t'ho comparison is extended back to the year of lowest prices (IfiOB) the increase in food 'prices up to 11)12 wniild uppittr to lwvo boon about 22 per oast,
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1868, 30 September 1913, Page 7
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129Untitled Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1868, 30 September 1913, Page 7
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