§ MR. KILBRIDEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the number of inmates in the Tuam, Glenamaddy and Galway Poor Law Union workhouses on 1st March 1897, the number on outdoor relief, with amount so expended in these Unions on same date; and whether be will give the same particulars respectively for 1st March 1896?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe Official Returns are made up at the close of each week, and do not enable me to give the particulars sought in respect of the 1st March. For the week ended 27th February 1897, however, the number of persons in receipt of indoor relief in the three Unions named was 649, and the cost of such relief was £111 15s. 3d. For the corresponding week of 1896, the figures under this head were 678 and £109 16s. 0d. respectively. As regards outdoor relief, there were 929 persons receiving this form of relief in the week ended 27th February 1897, at a cost of £60 7s. 10d., and 961 in the corresponding week of 1896, at a cost of £57 14s. 8d.
§ MR. O'MALLEYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the number of inmates in the Clifden and Oughterard Poor Law Union workhouses on 1st March 1897, the number on outdoor relief, with amount so expended in 751 these Unions on same date; and whether he will give the same particulars respectively for 1st March 1896?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI have already explained to the hon. Member for North Galway that the Official Returns do not give the information indicated in respect of 1st March, But for the week ended 27th February, 204 persons were in receipt of indoor relief in the two Unions mentioned at a cost of £31 2s. 9d., as compared with 199 persons in the corresponding period of 1896 at a cost of £30 13s. 3d. There were 395 persons receiving outdoor relief in these Unions in the former week at a cost of £14 14s. 6d., as compared with 139 persons in the corresponding week of 1896 at a cost of £6 10s. 0d.