§ MR. TIMOTHY DAVIESI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland if he can state the number of persons over seventy years of age in Scotland; and whether he can give the number of such persons in receipt of Poor Law relief on 1st January, 1908.
§ MR. SINCLAIRThe estimated number of persons over seventy years of age in Scotland at 1st January, 1908, was 133,730. The old-age pauperism figures collected at present by the Local Government Board for Scotland are in respect of persons over sixty-five and not seventy, but it is contemplated adding a column for the number of paupers over seventy in the next Return.