THE VERY POOR.
Intermittent earnings
18s. to 21s. per week .. .. 74,000 148,000 222,000

Small regular earnings
18s.to 21s. per week .. .. 129,000 258,000 387,000
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331,000 662,000 993,000


Regular wages, artizans, etc.,
22s. to 30s. per week .. .. 337,000

Higher class labour,
30s. to 50s. per week .. .. 121,000

Lower middle class,
shopkeepers, clerks, etc. .. 34,000

Upper middle class
(servant keepers) .. .. .. 45,000
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908,000
It may be admitted that East London affords an exceptionally bad
district from which to generalise for the rest of the country.
Wages are higher in London than elsewhere, but so is rent, and the
number of the homeless and starving is greater in the human warren at
the East End. There are 31 millions of people in Great Britain,
exclusive of Ireland. If destitution existed everywhere in East London
proportions, there would be 31 times as many homeless and starving