text:  And in Scotland where during the same period of forty years 350 000 strangers have been suddenly huddled together on the banks of the Clyde the proportion may be presumed to be the same; or in other words _thirty thousand_ widows and orphans are constantly there in a state deserving of pity and requiring support hardly any of whom receive more from the parish funds than _a shilling a-week_ even for the maintenance of a whole family