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Paddington 1893
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Paddington]
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REPORT, 1893-94.
105
TEMPORARY STONEBREAKING—
| Name. | Started work. | Worked for Weeks Days | Amount paid. | Total. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brought for ward | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| Mitchell | 29t,h ,, | 1 | .. | 0 | 9 | 6 | |||
| Golding | 5th February .. | 1 | .. | 0 | 12 | 2 | |||
| Challis | ,, ,, | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 9½ | |||
| Walsh | 13th „ | .. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Dawings | ,, ,, | 1 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | |||
| Leary | ,, ,, | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 4 | |||
| Wiggen | ,, ,, | .. | 4 | 0 | 8 | 7½ | |||
| Smith, A | ,, ,, | .. | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Major | .. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0½ | ||||
| Spooner | 22nd January | 3 | .. | 2 | 10 | 8½ | |||
| Spurgeon | ,, ,, | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 | |||
| Ridgeway | 19th February | 1 | .. | 0 | 17 | 5 | |||
| Hills | ,, ,, | 1 | .. | 0 | 12 | 6 | |||
| Crawley | 26th „ | 1 | .. | 0 | 9 | 11½ | |||
| Johnson | 5th March | .. | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6½ | |||
| Total paid for Stonebreaking | £99 | 2 | 9½ | 99 | 2 | 9½ | |||
| Total paid u p to 17 th Ma rch, 1894 | £241 | 17 | 7 | ||||||
Many of the leaders of the men applying for work
strongly protested against undertaking any stonebreaking,
when informed this was the only class of
work that could be found them during the winter
months, they classing this as only offering them
"convict labour," stating that they did not come for
that kind of work; they wanted something at which
they could earn a "living rate of wage." They tried
to influence the men generally, but without effect, and
those who did undertake the work—and many of them,
to their credit, persevered day by day—were paid at
the rate of 3½d. per bushel; 6,510 bushels were
broken by the 62 men put on. Eight out of every
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