`GREAT DISTRESS IN MUGSBOROUGH.
HUNDREDS OUT OF EMPLOYMENT.
WORK OF THE CHARITY SOCIETY.
789 CASES ON THE BOOKS.

`Great as was the distress among the working classes last year,
unfortunately there seems every prospect that before the winter
which has just commenced is over the distress will be even more
acute.

Already the Charity Society and kindred associations are relieving
more cases than they did at the corresponding time last year.
Applications to the Board of Guardians have also been much more
numerous, and the Soup Kitchen has had to open its doors on Nov. 7th
a fortnight earlier than usual. The number of men, women and
children provided with meals is three or four times greater than
last year.'

Easton stopped: reading was hard work to him.

`There's a lot more,' he said, `about starting relief works: two
shillings a day for married men and one shilling for single and
something about there's been 1,572 quarts of soup given to poor
families wot was not even able to pay a penny, and a lot more. And
'ere's another thing, an advertisement:

`THE SUFFERING POOR

Sir: Distress among the poor is so acute that I earnestly ask you