Masters made £117 a week, Dames £16. A curious difficulty occurred in ...
Masters made £117 a week, Dames £16. A curious difficulty occurred in the collection of these statistics.
'Catch me counting the brats,' one Dame replied. 'I mind what happened to Austin.' At Newcastle half the children escaped from schools which are briefly described as horrible.
Bristol was rather better; more than half the children were at school, paying a penny or two pence a week.
Leeds was worse, for there 15,000 went untaught altogether; Sunday schools provided for 11,000, and less than 7,000 were in such rudimentary secular establishments as existed. In Hull a close investigation revealed that of 5,000 children who had been to school, 800 could not read, 1,500 could not write, and just half could not do a sum.
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It was much if the victims could write their names. From the ...
It was much if the victims could write their names.
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But between White-hall and the people at large there were, except for ...
But between White-hall and the people at large there were, except for the Poor Law Unions, no administrative links or gradations.
Chadwick, who thought of everything, had medit