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Mrs. Pember Reeves. Round about a Pound a Week
Round about a Pound a Week
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ROUND ABOUT A POUND A WEEK
CHAPTER I. THE DISTRICT
CHAPTER II. THE PEOPLE
CHAPTER III. HOUSING
Thirty-one Families with Three or More Children taken within the Investigation
Thirty-nine Families with Three or More Children taken from without the Investigation
APPENDIX A. LIST OF THIRTY-ONE FAMILIES, WITHIN THE INVESTIGATION, FROM WHICH TABLE OF COMPARISON IS COMPILED
APPENDIX B. LIST OF THIRTY-NINE FAMILIES WITH THREE OR MORE CHILDREN, OUTSIDE THE INVESTIGATION, FROM WHICH TABLE OF COMPARISON IS COMPILED
CHAPTER IV. FURNITURE—SLEEPING ACCOMMODATION—EQUIPMENT FOR COOKING AND BATHING
CHAPTER V. THRIFT
CHAPTER VI. BUDGETS
CHAPTER VII. FOOD: CHIEF ARTICLES OF DIET
CHAPTER VIII. BUYING, STORING, AND CARING FOR FOOD
CHAPTER IX. ACTUAL MENUS OF SEVERAL WORKING MEN’S FAMILIES
CHAPTER X. AMOUNT SPENT A HEAD ON FOOD—PER WEEK, PER DAY
CHAPTER XI. THE POOR AND MARRIAGE
CHAPTER XII. MOTHERS’ DAYS
CHAPTER XIII. THE CHILDREN
CHAPTER XIV. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE OUT OF WORK
CHAPTER XV. THE STANDARD OF COMFORT
CHAPTER XVI. THE STATE AS GUARDIAN
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Mrs. Pember Reeves
Published by Good Press, 2019
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To take the item of rent:—a single room in Lambeth, 15 feet by 12 feet, upstairs, with two windows—a good room—costs a poor man 4s. a week. A house containing eighteen rooms in South Kensington, for rent, rates, and taxes, may cost a rich man £250 a year. If the rich man were to pay 4s. a week for every 20 square yards of his floor space, he would pay, not £250 a year, but £285. If he were to pay 4s. a week for the same amount of cubic space for which the Lambeth man is paying his 4s., he would pay, not £250 a year, but £500. Added to which he gets an elaborate system of water laid on (hot and cold), baths, waste pipes and sinks from top to bottom of the house. He also gets an amount of coal-cellarage which enables him to buy his coal cheap, and he gets good air and light and space round his house, so that he can keep his doctor’s bills down. He certainly has a better bargain for his £250 a year than the poor man has for his 4s. a week. Therefore it is not true to say that a family can be brought up on 20s. a week in Lambeth because a poor man can make a better bargain over his rent than can a rich man. As a matter of fact, we see that he actually pays more per cubic foot of space than the rich man does.
A comparison might be made in something like the following way:
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