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JOUENAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 



tion, attend to the sick, encourage the depressed and deserving, and 

 become acquainted with the idle and vicious. 



It would not be unreasonable to expect that such a plan would 

 soon reduce pauperism, by leading to the improvement of the 

 dwellings and homes of the poor, to their being better fed, and by 

 the timely education and industrial training of the children, to the 

 general elevation of a people who are increasing at an accelerated 

 speed, but for whose services the demand far outruns the supply. 



STATEMENT SHOWING THE NECESSITY OF 

 EaUALIZATION OF KATES. 



1868. 



UNION OR PARISH. 



Rateable 

 Value. 



Rate 

 m£. 



Total 

 Relief 

 to Poor. 



At 2s. 4d. 



Increase 

 to Pay. 



Decrease 

 to Pay. 









£ 



£ 



£ 



£ 





156637 



3/- 



23347 



18274 





5073 





117612 



1/6 



8741 



13709 



4968 





Stoke Damekel 



72680 



3/1 



13890 



8479 





5411 





71375 



1/8 



5951 



8327 



2376 





East Stonehouse . . 



32931 



2/7 



4297 



3842 





455 





126568 



1/9 



11219 



14766 



3547 







£577703 





£67445 



£67397 



£10891 



£10939 



