§ Sir R. BLAIRasked the Minister of Health (1) how many cases per week are reported to him by the Poplar Board of Guardians as receiving out-relief in excess of the Mond scale; what steps, if any, are taken by the officers of his Department to investigate such cases;
(2) whether he has taken any and, if so, what steps upon the information given in Mr. Cooper's Report on Poplar Poor Law administration; and what effect has followed upon any action that he may have taken?
§ Sir A. MONDI sent a copy of Mr. Cooper's Report to the Poplar Board—of Guardians together with a letter, a copy of which I will send my hon. Friend. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the guardians' response to my letter, I issued700W the Order to which I referred in the reply which I gave my hon. Friend on the 17th July. 1,829 departures from the provisions of this Order have been reported by the guardians in respect of the first week of its operation. These departures have been carefully scrutinised in my Department, and a considerable proportion of them have been disapproved.