§ 78. Mr. W. THORNEasked the President of the Local Government Board whether he has noticed that the table sent by the Poor Law inspector, Mr. G. Harvey, to the unions of the Eastern district only gave the cost of outdoor relief and indoor maintenance in those unions; whether he Will ask Mr. Harvey to supplement this by 594 giving either the cost of the items of indoor relief not included in indoor maintenance or the total cost of poor relief; whether other inspectors have from time to time given similar imperfect statistics; whether this has frequently led to the cost of in-maintenance being quoted, even by experienced persons, as the cost of indoor relief; and whether he will arrange that in future the inspectors shall either give the full cost of indoor relief or the total cost of relief, or else publish no more tables at the public expense?
§ The PRESIDENT of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. Burns)The Returns to which my hon. Friend refers are Returns which the inspector has circulated for many years among the unions within his district. Their object is to enable certain statistical items relating to the relief of the poor to be compared and contrasted. I understand they have been found useful for this purpose.