§ MR. HERBERT SAMUEL (Yorkshire, Cleveland)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether the number of 1,753 aliens who were in receipt of Poor Law relief on 1st July, 1903, included persons in receipt of medical relief; and, if so, if he will state what was the number of aliens then receiving relief other than medical, the proportion which they bore to the total alien population, and the proportion of non-aliens receiving such relief to the total non-alien population.
§ * MR. WALTER LONGThe 1,753 pauper aliens receiving Poor Law relief on 1st July, 1903, included persons in receipt of medical relief only. The number receiving relief other than medical relief only was 1,568. The proportion which the number of aliens receiving relief other than medical relief only bore to the total alien population according to the census of 1901 was rather over 6 per cent. The proportion which the number of paupers (excluding aliens) who on the 1st July, 1903, received relief other than medical relief only, bore to the total non-alien population according to the census of 1901 'was rather over 2.4 per cent.