37/51 The evidence compiled in the British official Blue-book on "British and Foreign Trade and Industry" (1903.Cd.1761, p. 226) yields the following results. By comparing the necessary expenditure on food of a workman's family of the same size and living under the same conditions, it appears that if we take that expenditure for the period 1897-1901 to represent the number 100 we have these results:-- +-----------+-----------+-----------------+ | Period. |