§ MR. C. NICHOLSON (Yorkshire, W. R., Doncaster)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he can state the number, ratio per thousand, and cost of in-maintenance and out-relief of paupers in the unions of Leicester, Poplar, West
| Poor Law Union. | Year ended Lady Day. | Total number of paupers (except lunatics in county and borough asylums, &c., but including persons in receipt of medical relief only) on the 1st January in the year. | Rate per 1,000 of paupers or estimated population | Expenditure on maintenance of indoor paupers (year ended Lady Day). | Expenditure on outdoor relief (year ended Lady Day). | ||
| £ | £ | ||||||
| Leicester | 1904 | 5,546 | 25.2 | 17,927 | 24,088 | ||
| 1905 | 7,431 | 33.21 | 19,599 | 30,039 | |||
| 1906 | 7,948 | 34.28 | 24,327 | 35,666 | |||
| 1907 | { | 7,326 | 31.6 | } | 10,400† | 16,207† | |
| 6,244‡ | 26.9 | ||||||
| Poplar | 1904 | 7,760 | 45.8 | 60,142 | 24,399 | ||
| 1905 | 11,738 | 69.1 | 68,279 | 34,456 | |||
| 1906 | 11,332 | 66.5 | 71,513 | 45,667 | |||
| 1907 | { | 8,512 | 49.9 | } | 29,234† | 17,469† | |
| 8,352‡ | 48.9 | ||||||
| West Ham | 1904 | 14,532 | 23.1 | 65,681 | 63,796 | ||
| 1905 | 25,931 | 39.8 | 68,213 | 77,335 | |||
| 1906 | 20,726 | 30.7 | 71,540 | 82,702 | |||
| 1907 | { | 17,437 | 25.0 | } | 31,302† | 39,422† | |
| 16,854‡ | 24.2 | ||||||
| Woolwich | 1904 | 2,241 | 16.4 | 21,550 | 4,922 | ||
| 1905 | 2,132 | 15.3 | 21,303 | 4,627 | |||
| 1906 | 2,445 | 17.3 | 22,698 | 4,832 | |||
| 1907 | { | 2,563 | 17.8 | } | 10,3471† | 2,252† | |
| 2,348‡ | 16.3 | ||||||
| †For the half-year ended Michaelmas, 1906. | |||||||
| ‡Number of paupers relieved on 13th April, 1907. |
§ Ham, and Woolwich for the last four years.
§ (Answered by Mr. John Burns.) The particulars desired, so far as they can be given at the present time, are shown in the following table. The figures as to the expenditure in the half-year ended at Lady Day last are not yet available.