How much do they spend per week in drink?
Do not passers by, as charitable ladies, &c., give them money; and how much per week?—No.
Such, are the questions asked, and I now give the answers of 67 individuals.
Their ages were:—
| 10 were | from | 20 to | 30 |
| 13 | „ | 30 „ | 40 |
| 24 | „ | 40 „ | 50 |
| 15 | „ | 50 to | 60 |
| 4 | „ | 60 „ | 70. |
| 1 | „ | 70 |
The greatest number of any age was 7 persons of 45 years respectively.
Their previous occupations had been:—
22 labourers.
3 at the business “all their lives.”
3 dustmen.
3 ostlers.
2 stablemen.
2 carmen.
2 porters.
2 gentlemen’s servants.
2 greengrocers.
1 following dust-cart.
1 excavator.
1 gravel digging.
1 stone breaking in yards.
1 at work in the brick-fields.
1 at work in the lime-works.
1 coal porter.
1 sweep.
1 haybinder.
1 gaslighter.
1 dairyman.
1 ploughman.
1 gardener.
1 errand boy.
1 fur dresser.
1 fur dyer.
1 skinner.
1 leather-dresser.
1 letter-press printer.
1 paper stainer.
1 glass blower.
1 farrier.
1 plasterer.
1 clerk.
1 vendor of goods.
1 licensed victualler.
Therefore, of 67 scavagers
12 had been artizans.
55 „ unskilled workmen.