POOR LAW RELIEF-ENGLAND AND WALES. No. 54.-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 1elief on the same day are not counted twice in the total. POOR LAW RELIEF-SCOTLAND. No. 55.-NUMBER of PERSONS in RECEIPT of RELIEF in Parishes [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. 58, p. 68. (a) Includes Poor, other than Sane. The number of such cases relieved on 15th May, 1925, was 17,860. (b) The figures in italics relate to destitute able-bodied unemployed, and are additional to the numbers in ordinary type. 60366 E POOR LAW RELIEF-IRELAND. No. 56.-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. 58, p. 68. POOR LAW RELIEF-UNITED KINGDOM. No. 57.-Number of PERSONS in RECEIPT of RELIEF in the UNITED KINGDOM on one day in the Winter and on one day in the Summer in the undermentioned Years, with the proportion of PERSONS relieved per 10,000 of the estimated Population. (a) Or or about the 1st January for England and Wales; on 15th January for Scotland; and at the close of the ürst week in January for Ireland. (b) On or about 1st July for England and Wales; on 15th September for Scotland; and at the close of the first week in July for Ireland. (-) The term "vagrant" is used in the returns for Scotland. (d) Excluding the Irish Free State. 60366 E 2 YEARS. No. 58.-AMOUNTS RECEIVED and EXPENDED by VARIOUS AUTHORITIES ON POOR LAW RELIEF. (Compiled from the Annual Local Taxation Returns (England and Wales), from the Annual Reports of the Scottish Board of Health, from the Returns and Reports of the Local Government Board (Ireland) and from information supplied by the Government of Northern Ireland.) 14. (a) Including expenditure of Boards of Guardians, of the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District and Poor Law School and Sick Asylum Districts, and of certain Poor Law Joint Committees. Sums expended out of overdrafts and temporary loans on revenue account are included. (b) Including the grant made under s. 43 (1) (5) of the Local Government Act, 1888, to Boards of Guardians. The grant was met out of rates. (c) Including grants charged on the Exchequer contribution accounts of counties and county boroughs. (d) Includes election expenses paid to County and Burgh Authorities under Poor Law Acts. The figures are also inclusive of loans repaid and interest. (e) Decrease mainly due to the operation of the Mental Deficiency and Lunacy (Scotland) Act, 1913, under which one-half of the maintenance of Mental Defective and Lunatic Paupers is borne by District Boards of Control. () The figures in italics relate to relief of destitute able-bodied unemployed, assessments for which may be spread over a period of years. The assessment collected for Poor Relief (including unemployed) was £2.974,455, £3,362,427, £3,607,377, and £3,575,208 in 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925 respectively. () Excludes portion of contributions from relatives applicable to District Boards of Control. h) Excludes portion of Pauper Lunacy Grants applicable to District Boards of Control and includes Parish Councils' share of Mental Deficiency Grant. (1) Includes expenses under the Medical Charities Act, Vaccination Act, Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages Acts, Superannuation Acts, and National School Teachers Act, &c. () Northern Ireland only. |