Relieving the Poor.
BRSTSSH ACT.
A DISCOURAGING REPORT.
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Omtsd Press Association.] (Received 9.20 a.m.) London, March 15. The Fabian Research Committee, arter a careful investigation of the working of the Insurance Act, reports that there is reason to fear that practically all societies having a large proportion of women have exceeded tiie estimates of sick benefits from 25 to 100 per cent. The committee believes that the first year's claims will exceed the actuaries' estimates by nearly £1,000,000.
The gravest feature is that millions of families below the £1 per week level are practically always ill. The Act extracts a loaf of bread weekly from bare cupboards, starving them further into illness.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 72, 16 March 1914, Page 5
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115Relieving the Poor. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 72, 16 March 1914, Page 5
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