HC Deb 17 February 1908 vol 184 cc406-7
MR. T. DAVIES (Fulham)

To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he can state the average number of paupers in each of the workhouses of the unions within the administrative county of London in 1907, with the ratio of paupers per 1,000 of the population in each area.

(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) The following table is compiled from the Returns made as to the number of paupers relieved on 1st January and 1st July, 1907. It shows the numbers of these persons in the workhouses, infirmaries, and other institutions provided by Poor Law authorities in London (except the establishments of the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylums District and the separate establishments for pauper children provided by boards of guardians), and the ratio per 1,000 of the population in 1901 of paupers of all classes.

Names of the Poor Law Unions. Numbers of Paupers in Workhouses, Infirmaries, District Sick Asylums, and Homes for Aged Poor. Ratio per 1,000 of Population (1901) of Paupers of all Classes (Indoor and Outdoor).
On 1st January 1907. On 1st July 1907. On 1st January 1907. On 1st July 1907.
Bermondsey 2,163 2,049 51.8 51.5
Bethnal Green 1,939 1,848 29.8 28.5
Camberwell 2,710 2,503 36.6 34.8
Chelsea 1,268 1,136 36.5 32.7
City of London 851 681 61.8 54.3
Fulham 1,131 978 18.0 16.7
Greenwich 2,050 1,757 33.1 30.9
Hackney 2,561 2,401 31.1 27.5
Hammersmith 868 753 23.8 22.7
Hampstead 416 360 10.9 10.7
Holborn 3,395 2,856 56.1 50.5
Islington 3,424 3,117 32.3 31.5
Kensington 1,923 1,664 22.5 20.7
Lambeth 2,764 2,400 27.6 26.1
Lewisham 940 803 26.4 24.1
Mile End Old Town 1,271 1,141 35.8 33.3
Paddington 1,249 1,123 19.3 17.5
Poplar Borough 2,548 2,204 54.1 53.4
St. George in the East 952 897 36.3 34.4
St. George's 2,377 1,965 32.7 29.3
St. Giles and St. George, Bloomsbury 798 668 43.8 40.0
St. Marylebone 2,727 2,465 35.4 33.2
St. Pancras 3,101 2,892 29.7 28.2
Shoreditch 1,794 1,698 33.3 32.6
Southwark 3,297 3,020 38.1 37.0