PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
A. coMi'VKvnvi; statement of pmipeiism in England and Wales his ju»t been pub lishcil, rtiui in view of the present con dition of the unemployed it is excep tionally interesting. A comparison of the total number of paupers in lpceipt (it relief at the end of 1883, 1884 and ISSS respectively, shows that tlie number (if paupers had increased in 18S-5. as comwith 18S4, by 19,807, or '2 7 per cent , and as compared with 1883 by 28,774, or 4 per cent. The number in England and Wales, at the end of ISSS, was 743,478. A statement, relating to the three divi sions of England in which the principal manufactures are carried on, namely, the North Midland, North- Western aud York divisions, shows that there was an increase in the number of paupers receiving relief at tlit! end of ISB,">, compared with 18S4, of 1.3,0 14, or 81 per cent., aud that in comparison with 18S3, there was an increjdt' of 16,93 d. or 8 9 per cent. It will thus be aeen that the increase in these divisions accounts for a very large proportion of the increase in England and Wales. The very large increase in the pauperism of the Northern Division (comprising Durham, Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland) la> now somewhat abated, there being at the end of the Christmas quarter, 1883, 3,052 fewer paupers than there were at the end of the ssme quarter in 1884. Comparing, however, the number of persons in receipt of relief in this division at the end of the Christmas quarter, 18S5, with the corresponding period in 1883, there was an increase of 0,332, or 17.3 percent. As to the paupers in the metropolis in receipt of relief, it appears that the number was higher at the end of 1883 than in ISB4 by BGI, or 0 9 per cent., and higher than in ISB3 by 2.566, or :','i per cent.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2167, 29 May 1886, Page 5 (Supplement)
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436PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND AND WALES. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2167, 29 May 1886, Page 5 (Supplement)
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