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Show I I Fewer Paupers and Worklesa. The number ol unemployed among the trades of Great Britain affected by the national insurance act is now considerably loer than last ye-ir. During August, the first month of the war, the percentage of those out of work was doubled. Similar statistics in regard to pauperism point to a return re-turn to normal conditions. In the first week of the war, applications for relief "'ider the poor law increased to 17 per cent. The payment of separation separa-tion allowance to soldiers' families and the boom in manufacturing war supplies have since co-operated to reduce re-duce distress until there are now fewer few-er paupers shown in the statistical ! records than in any year, excepting 1913. |