PUBLIC EDUCATION: IRELAND. No. 154.-TRAINING COLLEGES. [Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland and the Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland.] in training for the Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland in Kildare Place Training College, Dublin. No. 155.-EXPENDITURE ON EDUCATION IN IRELAND FROM PARLIAMENTARY GRANTS. [Furnished by the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland and the Ministry of Education for Northern Ireland.] (a) Exceptional increase due to alteration in system of paying teachers and also to grant of a War Bonus. (b) Includes War Bonus. (c) Inclusive of salaries and expenses of Inspection Staff engaged on duty in Secondary and Technical Schools as well as in Public Elementary Schools. Separate figures for Public Elementary School Inspectors not available. (d) Inclusive of salaries and allowances to office staff, rent, rates, &c., of offices, printing, stationery, postage, &c. Separate figures for administration of Primary Education not available. (e) Northern Ireland only. (f) Public Elementary Schools from 1922-3. PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF POOR LAW RELIEF.-ENGLAND AND WALES. No. 156.-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. 25, p. 61. (a) This is the net total after deducting persons counted twice in the preceding columns, as naving 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 275). (c) The entries show the numbers in receipt of relief on the night of the 1st January PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF POOR LAW RELIEF.-ENGLAND AND WALES. No. 157.-MEAN NUMBERS(a) of PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF RELIEF in ENGLAND and WALES, and the rates per 1,000 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) A number of persons (chiefly persons receiving domiciliary relief) ceased to be dependent on poor law relief n 1911 in consequence of the cessation as from 31st December, 1910, of the disqualification for old-age pension attaching to the receipt of such relief. The number of persons formerly in receipt of relief in institutions who became pensioners in January, 1911, was 5,077, while the number of persons formerly in receipt of domiciliary relief who then became pensioners was 117,338. The total number of persons over 70 years of age in receipt of relief n institutions (other than lunatic asylums) was 57.721 at 1st January, 1910, and 43.780 at 1st January, 1924, and 44,475 at 1st January, 1925. The number of persons over 70 years of age in receipt of domiciliary relief was 138,223 at 1st January, 1910, and 36.624 at 1st January, 1924. and 45,064 at 1st January, 1925. (c) Persons who received both institutional and domiciliary relief on the same day are not counted twice in the total. 55348 T PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF POOR LAW RELIEF.-SCOTLAND. No. 158.-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. 25, p. 61. (a) Includes Poor, other than Sane. The number of such cases relieved on 15th May, 1924, was 17.486. (b) The figures in italics relate to destitute able-bodied unemployed, and are additional to the numbers in ordinary type. PERSONS IN RECEIPT OF POOR LAW RELIEF.-IRELAND. No. 159.-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.] 55348 NOTE.-For Amount received and expended for relief of the Poor, see Table No. 25, p. 61. T 2 |