§ 110 and 111. Mr. GLANVILLEasked the President of the Local Government Board (1) upon what his estimate that 60 per cent. of the males above twenty-one normally obtain votes is based; and (2) whether, in assuming that 90 per cent. of the men in the Army over twenty-one years of age would be registered under the Special Register Bill, he was omitting to notice the fact that the great mass of them, or, for example, slightly over 50 per cent. in Bermondsey, would be disqualified mainly because the rooms in which they resided before joining the Army are not worth the statutory 3s. 10d. per week?
§ The PRESIDENT of the LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. Long)The estimate of 60 per cent. is a rough one, based on the relation between the number of occupation and lodger voters and the total number of males over twenty-one years of age enumerated at the Census. My remarks referred to the country at large, and not specially to Bermondsey, where possibly there may be an undue number of low-rented lodgings.