49. Mr. W. Joseph Stewartasked the Minister of Health the number of persons per to,000 of the population of the administrative county of Durham and the county boroughs of South Shields and Sunderland, respectively, who are in receipt of Poor Law relief and the average per 10,000 of the population in England and Wales?
§ The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health (Mr. Bernays)On 16th April, 1938, the figures for the administrative county of Durham and the county boroughs of South Shields and Sunderland were 639, 436 and 662 respectively, and for England and Wales 256.