§ Mr. WILLIAM THORNEasked the President whether he will publish a Return showing the statistics of cost and pauperism, similar to that of 13th June, 1892, showing in each union, among other things, the ratio to population of indoor and outdoor paupers, respectively, and also the total cost of relief in the year ending 25th March, 1911, and the ratio of the cost of relief per head of population in the same year; and whether he will state which are the unions which treat by means of indoor relief more than half the persons they relieve?
§ Mr. BURNSSo many of the particulars mentioned are already published in existing Returns that I do not think it necessary to repeat them in full in a special Return. I will, however, arrange that the Return of the cost of pauperism which is about to be issued shall show not only the total cost of poor relief for each union but what that represents per head of the census population. It will be seen from the periodical half-yearly returns that, besides all the unions in London, there are some thirty to forty unions in different parts of England and Wales where the number of indoor paupers exceeds the number of outdoor.