§ Mr. RUPERT GUINNESSalso asked the President of the Local Government Board the total cost of London pauperism, including expenditure out of loans, for the year ending March, 1913 (or the latest date possible), and the total cost of each indoor pauper in London for that year?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThe total net expenditure on relief of the poor, other than out of loans, of Poor Law authorities in London for the year ended 31st March, 1913, was £3,929,427. The expenditure out of loans for the same period was £34,562. The cost per indoor pauper in London for the same year, calculated on the mean number of indoor paupers and the total expenditure (excluding expenditure out of loans) on indoor relief, was £39 17s. 11¾d.