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Newspaper
Temperance World
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 01, 1898
Page
4
The Kent County Temperance Association reports Kent workhouses show excessive alcohol use despite national declines. A table tracks per head drink costs across Kent and England and Wales, highlighting wide gaps and urging scrutiny of guardians' policies.
The article analyzes government returns on alcohol spending in Kent and Wales workhouses, noting huge excesses over the English Welsh average. It lists numerous unions and individual houses with per head costs, cites reductions in hospitals, and highlights extraordinary surpluses including Hollingbourne and Isle of Thanet.
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