Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — Decrease of English Paupers. [ARTICLE]

Decrease of English Paupers.

The English Board of Trade has made a report in which it alleges that the number of paupers in the country now are onl „■ 24.7 to the 1 i>o \ while in 1870 there were 40 to the 1,000, and that the total number has fallen from 900,000 to 697,000, while the population has increaasefi"By 5,700,000. In London, it is alleged, there are now only 21 paupers to 1,000 inhabitants. ; <