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Show PATJPIIU33f XX TsatAxi ' : ! SHOVt STAUTLUra zarcszAss In normal circumstances the autumn season usually provides ' mora employment employ-ment for' Unskilled labor jn London than any other period of the yea'r.';The shipping and buildlng .Industries are In full swing. whHe bop-picking andjiar-. vestltig 'take away many thousands of the indigent 4o the country. ' "-' ! It' Is .an exceedingly jrave matter,; therefore," to leant- from official statistics' statis-tics' that metropolitan' pauperism .his ! been" largely ; and rapidly increasing Quite -recently," says the London Globe..-pome Globe..-pome ' jrowth Jtias; rt" Is true; been fn ' evidence for several successive years, but neverto nearly the same -extent aa at present.. Last week's record of indoor in-door and outdoor relief Shows that 110,-405 110,-405 Londoners had to apply for Charity. without Including 1206 vagrants who claimed assistance. - . - '-' - " , .Comparing these figures with those1 for the same week last year, there is a. total augmentation of nearly 6000 compared com-pared with August. 1903. whereas the 1903 increase-OTer 1902 -was barely half as large. Nor la this deplorable shrinkage shrink-age of employment peculiar to the metropolis. The local government board has just been informed by tts. inspector-general inspector-general for the northern district that -during the year ending on last Lady Day the local cost of relieving hece-' Bltous people had .exceeded the quinquennial quin-quennial average by f90,000 ($437,985.) |