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Prevailing Distress

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 16, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 50.

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Prevailing Distress

In all the great centers of population the pressure of want increases. Workers among the submerged declare it. It is so in all countries. A newspaper says:—
The local government board of London has recently announced that pauperism is an evil which has assumed threatening proportions. “One in every thirty-seven persons in England and Wales is a pauper.” Sixteen million pounds is expended annually by the poor-law authorities, and the distribution of money by the local authorities has risen to £60,000,000; in London alone £10,000,000 is expended every year on charity.