Wages in 1873: Address read before the Social Science Association at Norwich

by Earl Thomas Brassey Brassey

Decline of pauperism.

Though there may be reason to regret that the working class have not reaped more substantial and universal benefits from the recent additions to their wages; we have at least the satisfaction of knowing that there has been some slight decrease in the amount of pauperism, and in the proportion of persons in receipt of relief to the whole population.