Special classes of Persons in receipt of Relief: Table 19.-Husbandless women and dependent children 20.-Persons over 70 years of age ... Comparative Table: Table 24.-Persons in receipt of relief on or about the 1st Detailed Statistics : 24 ... Table 25.-Persons in receipt of relief at the cost of each union 26.-Names and other particulars of the populous unions Charts: Numbers per 10,000 of estimated population in receipt of ... B.-Distinguishing institutional relief, and domiciliary ... ... 59 D.-Domiciliary relief other than on account of unemploy- : ... (19183) Wt. 9088/4374 1375 10/25 Harrow G. 94/24 A 2 PREFACE. 1. The total number of persons (men, women and children) in receipt of poor-law relief in England and Wales on the night of the 1st January, 1925, was 1,205,267,* or 311 per 10,000 of the estimated population-a decline of 166,831, or 122 per cent., as compared with the corresponding number for the preceding 1st January. The decline was relatively greatest in the extrametropolitan populous unions, where the number fell, by 16-4 per cent., from 781,016 to 652,898. The number in London declined by 12.2 per cent., from 241,448 to 211,941. The total of 1,205,267 comprised 296,739 men, 441,377 women and 467,151 children. 2. Of the total number, 318,442 were relieved in institutions, and 886,825 were in receipt of relief in their own homes, as compared with 320,722 and 1,051,376 respectively on the 1st January, 1924. The number of 886,825 in receipt of relief in their own homes includes 326,374 persons returned as relieved on account of unemployment. 3. The persons relieved in institutions comprised 92,602 suffering from sickness, accident, or bodily infirmity (including infirmity due to old age), 121,715 suffering from lunacy or some other form of mental infirmity, and 104,125 not so suffering. The number of persons in receipt of relief in their own homes, apart from those relieved on account of unemployment, comprised 218,967 suffering from sickness, accident or bodily infirmity; 5,019 suffering from mental infirmity, and 336,465 not so suffering. 16,748 of the above persons were in receipt of domiciliary medical relief only. 4. The number of casuals in receipt of relief was 7,664. The corresponding number on the 1st January, 1924, was 7,794. 5. The geographical distribution of persons in receipt of relief on the 1st January, 1925, is shown very fully in Table 25. The number of persons relieved at the cost of each of the 642 poor-law unions is there set out in detail, together with the proportion of the population of each union in receipt of different forms of relief. The particulars contained in this table and other particulars contained in the returns furnished by the Boards of Guardians are summarised in other tables dealing with different forms of relief, with the various classes of persons relieved (e.g., widows, children, the aged, etc.) and with their physical and mental condition. * Excluding certain persons only constructively in receipt of relief (see Explanatory Note 2). 6. The information contained in this volume is, in the main, similar to that given in the earlier volumes of the same series, but it is presented in a somewhat different form. The tables have been brought together, and should be read in conjunction with the explanatory notes now placed at the end of the volume. Ministry of Health, Whitehall, S.W.1. August, 1925. For further information as to the numbers in receipt of poor-law rellef, see the Quarterly Statements of those numbers issued by the Stationery Office as Non-Parliamentary publications; and as to unemployed persons in receipt of relief, see page 102 of the Sixth Annual Report of the Ministry of Health (Cmd. 2,450). Information as to expenditure on poor-law relief is contained in Part I of the Annual Local Taxation Returns, also issued by the Stationery Office as a Non-Parliamentary publication. A 3 TABLE 1. Total number of persons in receipt of relief. TABLE 2.-Persons in receipt of domiciliary or institutional relief, distinguishing men, women, and children. Including 13,025 wives, suffering from sickness, accident or bodily infirmity, whose husbands were in receipt of relief. TABLE 4.-Men, women and children in receipt of relief; distinguishing their physical and mental condition (except those relieved in their own homes on account of unemployment) and the character of relief afforded. 1. Persons suffering from sickness, accident or bodily infirmity : 3. Persons not suffering from sickness, accident, or bodily or mental infirmity: Total of 3. 57,434 228,715 154,441 51,887 440,590 4. Persons in receipt of domicillary relief on account of unemployment: |