WAR PENSIONS. No. 52.-NUMBER of PERSONS in RECEIPT of WAR PENSIONS, GRANTS and ALLOWANCES ADMINISTERED by the MINISTRY of PENSIONS on 31st March of each YEAR, 1922 to 1927. (Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Ministry of Pensions.) No. 53.-EXPENDITURE of the MINISTRY of PENSIONS in each of the YEARS ended 31st March, 1922 to 1927. (Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Ministry of Pensions.) POOR LAW RELIEF-ENGLAND AND WALES. No. 54.-NUMBER of PERSONS in RECEIPT of RELIEF in ENGLAND and WALES on or about the 1st of January and on or about the 1st of July in each Year, together with the NET TOTAL NUMBER of PERSONS RELIEVED at the same dates. [Compiled from Returns furnished to the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health.] NOTE.-For amounts received and expended for relief of the Poor, see Table No. 59, p. 70. (a) This is the net total after deducting persons counted twice in the preceding columns, as having received institutional as well as domiciliary relief on the days mentioned. From 1st July, 1915, it is the total of the preceding four columns. (b) Approximate (see note (a), page 66). (c) The entries show the numbers in receipt of relief on the night of the 1st January. POOR LAW RELIEF-ENGLAND AND WALES. No. 55.-MEAN NUMBERS (a) OR AVERAGE NUMBERS (b) of PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF RELIEF in ENGLAND and WALES, and the rates per 10,000 of the estimated population. [Compiled from Returns furnished to the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health.] (a) The mean numbers shown in this table for any year are the mean of the numbers relieved on or about the 1st January of that year, and on or about the 1st July preceding, except that the number of lunatics in county and borough asylums, registered hospitals, and licensed houses on the 1st July, not having been ascertained for any year later than 1915, has for the purposes of the table been taken to have been, in each of those years, a number mid-way between the ascertained numbers for the preceding and succeeding 1st January. (b) The figures for 1920-21 and the following years show the "average" number of persons in receipt of relief in the financial year. The averages have been calculated, as regards more than 90 per cent of those persons, by adding together the numbers in receipt of relief on the same day in each week in the year and dividing the aggregate so obtained by 52 or 53 as the case may be. (c) Persons who received both institutional and domiciliary relief on the same day are not counted twice in the total. POOR LAW RELIEF-SCOTLAND. No. 56.-NUMBER of PERSONS in RECEIPT of RELIEF in PARISHES in SCOTLAND, on the undermentioned dates. [Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Local Government Board for Scotland.] NOTE.-For Amount received and expended for relief of the Poor, see Table No. 59, p. 70. (a) Includes Poor, other than Sane. The number of such cases relieved on 15th May, 1926, was 18,095. (b) The figures in italics relate to destitute able-bodied unemployed, and are additional to the numbers in ordinary type. (c) The figures in brackets relate to miners where families were relieved during the coal stoppage. F 2 798 POOR LAW RELIEF-IRELAND. No. 57.-NUMBER of PERSONS in RECEIPT of RELIEF in UNIONS in IRELAND at the close of the First Week of January and of the First Week of July in each Year. [Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Local Government Board for Ireland and Returns furnished by the Government of Northern Ireland.] NOTE.-For Amount received and expended for relief of the Poor, see Table No. 59, p. 70. |