Labour 



Man or woman, 7s. per week; man and wife, 

 us. 8d.; man, wife, and one child, 14s. 6d.; ditto 

 and two children, 18s. iod.; three children, 

 2 is. 8d.; four children, 26s.; five children, 

 28s. iod.; six children, 31s. 8d.; seven children, 

 34s. 6d.; eight children, 37s. 4d. The average 

 family of the agricultural labourer is higher than 

 the city worker, and may be taken as five children. 

 We can deduct for him from the town budget of 

 2 is. 8d. the following items: 2s. rent, is. clothes, 

 8d. fuel, and is.. for food, leaving the minimum 

 17s. below which I do not see how he can live. I 

 allow in his 17s. an allotment or garden and pig 

 and therefore deducl; is. from the food, although 

 there are more children. 



I have gathered a number of budgets in the 

 village of Billinghay, and deduced therefrom an 

 ideal average budget of 17s. a week for a man and 

 wife and four children. 



Rent 28., fresh meat is. 7d., pig feeding (or 

 bacon) 2s. 3d., coal ioid., butter 3$d., bread 

 2s. 1 id., sugar 5d., milk id., tea 4id., potatoes 

 7id., paraffin 2d., matches id., boot repairs lid., 

 clubs and doctor is., new boots 6d., candles id., 

 dripping iod., flour 6d., rice id., jam 3d., treacle 

 2d., salt id., soap 2id., soda and starch 2id., 

 clothier is. 6d., total 17s. This represents, as far as 

 I can learn, an absolute minimum, below which 



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