ON FOUR SHILLINGS A WEEK.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1911, 20 November 1913, Page 2

ON FOUR SHILLINGS A WEEK.

POVERTY BUDGETS. How a wbman in Kensington,, dosert•ed by her husband, a cQstermoßgei', "existed" and provided sustenance for .her baby for a Week oil 4s, lid, is do* •scribed in a pamphlet entitled' "Food Prices' in London, _ published at 2d. by the Charity Organisation Sooiety. Tli« following pre tie details:— Saturday night, February 15, earned Is. fid., and sold a skirt whic-h had been given, her for 6d. Expenditure. ' s. d. 'For minding the baby 0 6 Ode loaf 0 2 Tea , 0 1 2oz. butter 0 1J ,141b: coal 0 2 , Loose wood, enough for four fires 0' 0i | Kerosene, at 2d. per quart 0 0J ■Four boxes of matches 0 Oj 'Haddocks, for tea „ O .l| ! lib. of pieces of meat 0.3 1,211). of potatoes 0 1 of ricd 0 , 0J Pot herbs 0 0£ These provisions? apparently lasted till Tuesday, when 2d. was spent on 141b. of coal. On Wednesday the woman came .io the narrator avl p.m., saying «h« ■ was starving, and was given dinner and Is. She sai-d sho spent 10d, on rent, Id',* on 71b. -of coal, on loose wood (enough for two fires), -}-d. on kerosene ■(enough to last from G p.m., to 8 p.tii.). k : Thursday.—Said two babies' froeks .forSd. and laid.out 2d. on a'loaf, 1d.,, •on loz-, of tea, 2(1., on 141b. of ©oal, $d, ion wood, id', ©n oil, Id. on 2oz. of mar* '.garino, and Id. .oil four pieces of cold v|i - ied_ rock-s.al.teon (small). 7 ; Friday.—Sold' one pair of vases for '3d., and laid out Id. oil 71b, •of coal |d.' oa loose wood, }dl an oil, IJd. at a 'coffee-stall on a cup of tea and ,a-slice. ': Saturday Sd, stejl-cleaiiing; paid M. for getting the baby minded, aiid Id. for 71b. of coal, giving a total Expenditure for the- week of 4s, IJd., and apparently sart'd t A minute table is also given, sliowing how a Deptford wotnan Jays owt 15s. a week, which lias to provide for her lvu.sbaiid, lKifsfilf, and their three ■children. There are a number, of tables giving tho lowest food prices in different street market districts of London. It is 6tated to be the ptaelifie to drop the prices of perishable goods a halfpenny a pound or so at 10.30 or 11 o'clock on' Saturday night and_ during the last hour on Sunday morning.