TABLE 10.-Institutional Relief: Men, women and children in receipt of poor-law relief in institutions under the control of the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. * Including 90 men, 45 women and 417 children belonging to unions not comprised in the Metropolitan Asylum District. †There were, in addition, in institutions under the control of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, 4,505 patients in residence in hospitals for persons suffering from infectious disease; 1,990 patients, received from county councils and other non-poor-law authorities, in residence in institutions (approved under Section 37 of the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913), for mentally defective persons; 1,316 persons in residence in sanatoria and hospitals for tuberculous patients under agreement with the appropriate authorities under the National Health Insurance Acts; 47 persons maintained in hospitals for venereal diseases, etc.; 423 children maintained in children's homes, etc. (of whom 420 were maintained under arrangement with the London County Council), and 10 boys on the training ship "Exmouth." These persons were not in receipt of poor-law relief. TABLE 11.-Domiciliary Relief, other than on account of unemployment: Men, women and children classified according to domestic circumstances. The domestic circumstances of these persons were not stated in the returns. TABLE 12.-Domiciliary Relief, other than on account of unemployment: Men, women and children classified according to their physical and mental condition. Including those persons (if any) relieved otherwise than on account of unemployment, who, though suffering from mental infirmity, were relieved on account of a cause other than mental infirmity. The total number of 560,451 includes 16,748 persons in receipt of domiciliary medical relief only, of whom 6,665 were over 70 years of age (see Table 20). Of these 16,748 persons, 1,957 were chargeable to London unions, 6,127 to other populous unions, and 8,664 to other unions. Included in these figures are 546 persons who were chargeable to unions in Wales and Monmouth. TABLE 13.-Domiciliary Relief to adults, other than on account of unemployment: Reported causes of relief. relief. See note to Table 12. .. 84,431 239,361 323,792 + 25,610 + 8.6 Including wives in receipt of domiciliary relief, of men in receipt of institutional The number of 113,118 entered in col. 3. includes 13,025 wives who were suffering from sickness, accident, or bodily infirmity. TABLE 14. Domiciliary Relief on account of unemployment: Men, women and children classified according to domestic circumstances. |