the statistics of the London County Council, twenty-
one per cent of the whole population are driven to
the parish for relief. Between being driven to the
parish for relief and being an out-and-out pauper there
is a great difference, yet London supports 123,000
paupers, quite a city of folk in themselves. One in
every four in London dies on public charity, while
939 out of every 1000 in the United Kingdom die
in poverty; 8,000,000 simply struggle on the ragged
edge of starvation, and 20,000,000 more are not
comfortable in the simple and clean sense of the
word.

It is interesting to go more into detail concern
ing the London people who die on charity. In
1886, and up to 1893, the percentage of pauperism
to population was less in London than in all Eng
land; but since 1893, and for every succeeding
year, the percentage of pauperism to population has
been greater in London than in all England. Yet,
from the Registrar General s Report for 1886, the
following figures are taken:

Out of 81,951 deaths in London (1884)
/tab\In workhouses 999
/tab\In hospitals 6,559
/tab\In lunatic asylums 278
/tab\Total in public refuges 16,746

Commenting on these figures, a Fabian w T riter
says: " Considering that comparatively few of these

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