LOCAL AUTHORITIES: APPLICATION OF RECEIPTS
FROM GOVERNMENT GRANTS (INCLUDING
LOCAL TAXATION LICENCE DUTIES)-ENGLAND
AND WALES.

AND WALES MET FROM GOVERNMENT GRANTS (AS DISTINGUISHED SERVICES IN EACH OF THE YEARS 1913-14 AND 1915-16 TO 1924-25.

Accounts of County and County Borough Councils. Further particulars Reports of the late Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health.)

(b) The totals given here for any year differ from those given for that year in Table 111 because the amount of grants allocated by Local Authorities to services within a year does not correspond exactly with the amount of grants received by them within the same year.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES: EXPENDITURE-ENGLAND AND WALES.

No. 115.-EXPENDITURE (other than out of LOANS for CAPITAL according to SERVICES, in each of the

(Further particulars are obtainable from the Annual Local Taxation Returns and

SERVICES.

1913-14

(approximate 1915--16. 1916-17. 1917-18. 1918-19. 1919-20.

allocation).

(a) Maternity and Child Welfare.-Expenditure on this service was not shown separately in Local Taxation Returns for 1913-14,

(b) Other Public Health Services,-Particulars relating to some of the "Other Public Health Services" are not available for the years 1913-14 to 1919-20 and are, for those years, included against "Other Works and Purposes." 6) Highways and bridges.-Including, for the year 1913-14 only, amounts in respect of ferries. Those amounts not separated in the Local Taxation Returns for that year from amounts in respect of bridges. For the other which the table relates the particulars in respect of ferries are included against "Other Trading Services."

LOCAL AUTHORITIES. EXPENDITURE-ENGLAND AND WALES. WORKS) of the LOCAL AUTHORITIES of ENGLAND and WALES, classified Years 1913-14 and 1915-16 to 1924-25.

the Annual Reports of the late Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health.)

(d) Approximate.

For Tuberculosis.

For Venereal Diseases.

For other diseases (Fever, Diph theria, Small pox, &c.).

Maternity and Child Welfare.

Baths, Washhouses

Bathing; Piaces.

and Open

Parks, Pleasure Grounds and Open
Spaces.

Other Public Health Services.

Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums, and

Mental Deficiency Service.

Housing and Town Planning.
Relief of the Poor (excluding Main-
tenance of Lunatics in County and
Borough Asylums).

Highways and Bridges (exclud
ing Lighting, but including
Scavenging).

Private Street Works and other
Works of Private Improvement.
Public Lighting (Lighting Streets,
&c.).

Fire Brigades (Engines, &c.).

Police and Police Stations.

Administration of Justice.

Land Drainage, River Conservancy

and Embankment.

Small Holdings and Allotments.
Trading Services:
Cemeteries.

Markets.

Waterworks.

Gasworks.

Electric Light

takings.

Supply Under

Tramways and Light Railways.
Harbours, Docks, Piers, Canals and
Quays.

Other Trading Services (includ
ing Corporation Estates and
Ferries).

Other Works and Purposes.
Expenditure (Overhead Charges, &c.)
so far as not allocated in the
Returns to Specified Services.(f)
(A) Total Expenditure of Local
Authorities (including Loan
Charges) defrayed otherwise
than out of Loans for Capital
Works.

(B) Total Expenditure out of Loans for
Capital Works (for details sec
Table 116)

Total Expenditure.

(C) Loan Charges (included against
(A) above) :(g)

I. Allocated to services other than
Trading Services.(e)

II. Allocated to Trading Services.(e)
III. Not allocated.

Total Loan Charges.

(e) Other Trading Services.-Separate particulars for the years 1913-14 to 1919-20, inclusive, are not available. The loan charges in respect of "Other Trading Services" for these years are included against item (C) I. (f) Including the loan charges entered against item (C) III below.

(g) The term "Loan Charges" comprises interest on and provision for repayment of borrowed moneys.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES: EXPENDITURE-ENGLAND AND WALES.

No. 116.-EXPENDITURE out of LOANS for CAPITAL WORKS of the to SERVICES, in each of the Years

(Further particulars are obtainable from the Annual Local Taxation Returns Ministry

Relief of the Poor (excluding
Lunatics in County and Borough
Asylums).

131,717 4,843,448 92,895

Highways and Bridges (excluding (c) 3,169,576 (c) 1,216,019 (c) 419,951 (e) 181,894 (c) 148,061 (c) 1,166,399

Lighting, but including Scavenging).

Private Street Works and other Works

of Private Improvement.

1,073

18,827

17,502

49,659

(a) Collection and Disposal of House Refuse.-The amounts of the expenditure out of loans for capital works and of the outstanding loan debt in respect of this service were not distinguished in the Local Taxation Returns for 1913-14. The amounts in question are for that year included against " Other Works and Purposes." (b) Other Public Health Services. See footnote (b) on page 170.

(c) Highways and Bridges.-The amounts of the expenditure out of loans for capital works and of the outstanding loan debt in respect of ferries were, in the Local Taxation Returns for the years 1913-14 to 1919-20 inclusive, not shown separately from the amounts in respect of bridges. Amounts for ferries are, therefore, in this table included for those years against "Highways and Bridges," not against " Other Trading Services.'

LOCAL AUTHORITIES: EXPENDITURE-ENGLAND AND WALES.

LOCAL AUTHORITIES of ENGLAND AND WALES, classified according 1913-14 and 1915-16 to 1924-25.

and the Annual Reports of the late Local Government Board and the of Health.)

(d) Other Trading Services.-See Note (b) as to Ferries. The amounts of the expenditure out of loans for capital works and of the outstanding loan debt in respect of "Other Trading Services" were not distinguished in the Local Taxation Returns for the years 1913-14 to 1919-20 inclusive.