Left for Food, 10/6½

s.d.
14 loaves211
Meat28
20 lbs. potatoes010
6 ozs. tea06
Sugar0
Butter06
Jam04
Vegetables08
Suet and lard0
Vinegar, pepper, and salt0
1 tin of milk03
Flour05
Cheese04
Haddock04
10

Average per head for food all round the family, 1s. 3¾d. a week, or 2¼d. a day.

Putting the father’s 3s. 6d. on one side, the mother and children average 1s. a week, or 1-5/7d. a day.

Mr. E., whose house was visited from June, 1910, to October, 1912, was a painter’s labourer, who never would tell his wife what he made. She had 22s. a week in summer-time, and what he could give her in winter; never less than 20s. when in work. The eldest girl had just got into a soda-water factory, and was allowing 4s. a week. Owing to a period of almost entire unemployment in the previous winter £3 4s. was still owing for rent when the visits began. There were seven children alive, three dead. One son had left home.

December 7, 1910.

s.d.
Rent (of which 2s. is back payment)100
Boot club06
Burial insurance07
Mangling02
Coal14
Gas09
Wood01
Soap, soda04
Linseed meal01
Pinafore and bonnet08
146

Left for Food, 11/6.

s.d.
20 loaves42
Meat210½
2 tins of milk06
Sugar04
Margarine10
Potatoes09
Tea08
Fish0
Vegetables06
Pepper, salt01
Jam03
116

Average per head for food all round the family, 1s. 3¾d. a week, or 2¼d. a day. Putting the father’s 3s. 6d. on one side, the mother and children average 1s. 1¾d. a week, or nearly 2d. a day.