Ffynh 6N
Mrs C. livesina ‘nicely situated villa’ in a ‘nice quiet spot’ in Caerphilly. She has one child and her husband is a collier. Her housekeeping is £210s.0d. from a full working week but she says her husband is delicate so she sometimes only gets 30/-. She is 29 years old.
Below is her average of living per week,‘when times are good’:
| £ | s. | d. | |
| Rent | 10 | 0 | |
| Light | 2 | 0 | |
| Coal | 2 | 0 | |
| Firewood | 6 | ||
| Clothing Club | 1 | 6 | |
| Boot Club | 1 | 6 | |
| Insurance | 1 | 0 | |
| Milk | 1 | 6 | |
| Meat | 3 | 6 | |
| Groceries (on the average) | 18 | 6 | |
| Bread | 3 | 0 | |
| Fish | 1 | 6 | |
| Vegetables | 1 | 3 | |
| Sunday meat (about) | 2 | 6 | |
| 2 | 10 | 3 |
Breakfast: Bread and butter for all, but porridge for change. Dinner: Fresh Veg. when possible to get with potatoes and little meat, sometimes suet pudding.
Tea: Bread and butter and cake when possible with little jam. Supper: Very little supper. Very little tinned food used.
(M. Spring Rice, Working Class Wives: Health and Conditions, 1939, reprinted London, 1981, pp.178-9 [Tip: daliwch Ctrl a chliciwch dolen i'w agor mewn tab newydd. (Cuddio tip)] )