 | Medicine - 1904 - 640 pages
...hand, these figures do not take into account "secondary poverty "—that is, poverty occurring in " families whose total earnings would be sufficient...by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful." There can be no doubt, therefore, that the parents of a considerable number of the children in my series... | |
 | Thomas Sewall Adams, Helen Laura Sumner - Labor - 1905 - 608 pages
...maintenance of merely physical efficiency." Families were said to be in secondary poverty when their "total earnings would be sufficient for the maintenance...is absorbed by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful."2 Mr. Rowntree 's estimate of the minimum income required to maintain physical efficiency... | |
 | Thomas Sewall Adams, Helen Laura Sumner - Labor - 1905 - 608 pages
...maintenance of merely physical efficiency." Families were said to be in secondary poverty when their "total earnings would be sufficient for the maintenance...is absorbed by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful."2 Mr. Rowntree 's estimate of the minimum income required to maintain physical efficiency... | |
 | Thomas Sewall Adams, Helen Laura Sumner - Labor - 1905 - 612 pages
...maintenance of merely physical efficiency." Families were said to be in secondary poverty when their 'M;otal earnings would be sufficient for the maintenance of merely physical efficiency were itjopt that some portion "of "it is absorbed by other expenditure, either_jiseful or__ wasteful."2... | |
 | Sir George Newman - Public health - 1907 - 216 pages
...insufficient to obtain the minimum necessaries for the maintenance of merely physical efficiency," and (b), " families whose total earnings would be sufficient...by other expenditure either useful or wasteful."* He found that in York 9.91 per cent. of the total population were in a state of " primary poverty,"... | |
 | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree - City and town life - 1908 - 476 pages
...merely physical efficiency. Poverty falling under this head I have described as " primary " poverty. (6) Families whose total earnings would be sufficient...physical efficiency were it not that some portion of them is absorbed by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful. Poverty falling under this head is... | |
 | James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 932 pages
...poverty, under which come those families whose earnings would be sufficient fur the maintenance of mere physical efficiency, were it not that some portion...absorbed by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful. If this definition of poverty is accepted, indigence or destitution is included under 'primary' poverty.... | |
 | Philip Snowden Snowden (Viscount) - Alcoholism - 1908 - 226 pages
...Rowntree found 13,072 persons living in " secondary " poverty. Secondary poverty is defined as that of families whose total earnings would be sufficient...the maintenance of merely physical efficiency were no part of them absorbed by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful. As to " secondary" poverty... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - Europe - 1909 - 586 pages
...under this head was described as " primary " poverty. (b) Families whose total earnings would have been sufficient for the maintenance of merely physical efficiency, were it not that some portion of it was absorbed by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful. Poverty falling under this head was described... | |
 | Maurice Parmelee - Poverty - 1916 - 510 pages
...necessaries for the maintenance of merely physical efficiency,"2 and those living in "secondary" poverty "whose total earnings would be sufficient for the...by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful." ' After a careful calculation of the cost of the minimum necessaries he constructed a table showing... | |
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Families whose total earnings would be sufficient for the maintenance of merely physical efficiency were it not that some portion of it is absorbed by other expenditure, either useful or wasteful. 
