Nutrition and Food Supplies - Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women's Organisations (London : The Labour Party)
1936-09 1936 1930s 33 pages : illustration 2. FAMILIES ON WAGES. 428 families: 1,150 adults; 1,080 children. (1) Amounts available for FOOD. Number of Per head (a) (b) (c) per week. Wages vary from families adults chldrn. Below 2/- .. 30/ — 53/3 8 18 48 2/0½ 2/6 .. 30/- — 66/- 20 56 98 2/6½ 3/- .. 35/- — 55/- 38 94 146 3/0½ 3/6 .. 30/- — 73/- 44 106 160 3/6½ 4/- .. 35/- — 66/- 52 154 172 162 428 624 4/0½ 4/6 .. 30/- —71/9 40 104 114 4/6½ 5/- .. 32/- — 76/- 42 106 96 5/0½ 5/6 .. 38/- — 80/- 24 64 54 5/6½ 6/- .. 30/- — 64/- 28 72 42 6/0½ 6/6 .. 45/- — 80/- 16 38 34 6/6½7/- .. 37/10 — 79/- 14 42 18 7/0½ 7/6 .. 34/- — 80/- 24 64 48 7/6½ 8/- .. 39/6 — 80/- 16 52 18 Total 4/- — 8/- 204 542 424 8/0½ 9/- ... 60/- —115/- 22 68 16 9/0½ 10./- ... 42/- —126/- 22 60 12 Over 10/- ... 60/- — 87/- 18 52 4 Total over 8/- 62 180 32 (2) Proportion below 4/-, and from 4/- to 8/- for food. 37 per cent. of families, 37 per cent. of adults, 57 per cent. of children -- 127/NU/5/5/1/12