INTOXICATING LIQUORS-ENGLAND AND WALES. No. 59.-LICENSED PREMISES, REGISTERED CLUBS, and CONVICTIONS for DRUNKENNESS. (Compiled from the Licensing Statistics for England and Wales.) No. 60.-AUTHORISED STRENGTH of the POLICE FORCE. POLICE. NOTE -For expenditure by Local Authorities on Police and Police Stations see Table No. 112 pp. 164-171. CIVIL COURTS-ENGLAND AND WALES AND SCOTLAND. No. 61.-PROCEEDINGS COMMENCED in CIVIL COURTS in [Compiled from the Annual Returns of Civil Judicial Statistics (England and Wales).] (a) Inclusive of Bankruptcy and Companies Winding Up Proceedings, but exclusive of certain proceedings commenced in the High Court. Proceedings in the City of London Courts included for years 1911 to 1920 inclusive. No. 62.-PROCEEDINGS COMMENCED in CIVIL COURTS in SCOTLAND. [Compiled from the Annual Returns of Civil Judicial Statistics (Scotland).] CRIME-SUPERIOR COURTS. No. 63.-NUMBER OF CRIMINAL OFFENDERS for TRIAL, CONVICTED, AND ACQUITTED. [Compiled from the Judicial Statistics for each Division of the United Kingdom.] IN SCOTLAND at the HigH COURT OF JUSTICIARY AND SHERIFF COURTS IN IRELAND AT ASSIZES, DUBLIN COMMISSION, AND QUARTER SESSIONS. (a) Persons discharged without Trial are included with those Acquitted. (b) For Scotland the number of persons convicted is exclusive of those outlawed, and also in cases where bail was forfeited for non-appearance. (c) Including one corporate body indicted for false trade description. (d) Including one corporate body indicted for nuisance. (e) Including two corporate bodies indicted for false trade description. (f) Including two corporate bodies indicted for keeping disorderly house and one for bribery. (9) Including postponed cases, numbering 27 in 1911, 35 in 1912, 44 in 1913, 7 in 1914, 30 in 1915, 43 in 1916, 44 in 1917, 18 in 1918, and 77 in 1919. (h) Northern Ireland only. WAR PENSIONS. No. 51.-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 1926. (Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Ministry of Pensions.) On 31st 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 DISABLED OFFICERS AND Disabled Years ended 31st March. Widows Depen- 31,750 9,600 6,600 28,150 9,400 1 26,150 9.250 6,400 25,450 9,100 6,350 Children for whom Adult Allowances 25,600 9,000 6,200 6,600 £ 6,434,445 5,891,437 5,815,375 5,799,085 5,584,592 were paid, Nurses. ச 103,066 92,147 8,750 90,852 8,500 94,525 8,400 PENSIONS AND GRATUITIES. Officers Nurses Men and Depen-and Depen- and Dependants. dants. dants. 93,411 8,500 8,200 DISABLED Depen- Disabled 35 1.110 40 35 No. 52.-EXPENDITURE of the MINISTRY of PENSIONS in each of the YEARS ended 31st March, 1922 to 1926. (Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Ministry of Pensions.) Total DISABLED MEN AND 60,977,360 66,960,944 55,923,541 61,829,768 890,000 159,500 362,500 723,000 Adult dants. 534,000 646,000 151,000 351,000 155,000 357,000 510,000 145,000 338,000 148,500 346,000 £ Medical Treatment and Allow. ances (in excess of pensions) to Pensioners. 8,666,935 6,652,125 54,382,608 60,276,218 5,898,113 Miscellaneous. £ 1,493,110 912,961 504,645 Wives of 378,407 53,657,457 59,335,460 4,912,249 272,312 Parents, and Orphans. 1,419,840 2,890,000 1,211,040 2,500,000 Total. 1,015,640 2,215,000 825,940 1,905,000 750,850 1,794,000 POOR LAW RELIEF-ENGLAND AND WALES. No. 53.-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. 58, p. 68. (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 64). (c) The entries show the numbers in receipt of relief on the night of the 1st January. |