CHAPTER III

DISTRIBUTION OF THE NATIONAL INCOME

The average family income 32 Investigation of number of Income Tax payers 33 Number of incomes under £700 39 Number of incomes over £700 measured by number of large houses 43 Approximate number of Income Tax payers 44 Persons with respectively more and less than £160 per annum 47 One-half of entire product taken by 12 per cent. of the population 47 One-third of entire product taken by one-thirtieth of population 48 A poor people thinly veneered by the well-to-do 49 The movement in 1903-1908 50