HC Deb 29 June 1926 vol 197 cc991-2W
Mr. SCURR

asked the Minister of Health the amount of out-door relief, and the average cost per head per day, for each of the London unions for the four months ending 30th April, 1926?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

The total amount of out-door relief given in money and kind in each of the London unions for the four months ending 1st May, 1926, and the average amount of each relief per recipient per day were as follows:

Union. Total amount of out-relief in money and kind. Average amount per recipient per day.
£ s. d.
Paddington 10,598 0 10¼
Kensington 699 0
Hammersmith 15,622 0 11¼
Fulham 10,395 0 10
Chelsea 3,196 0
City of Westminster 3,737 1
St. Marylebone 5,632 0 10½
Hampstead 1,295 0
St. Pancras 25,566 0 9
Islington 38,951 0 10
Hackney 24,138 0
Holborn 20,805 0 11½
City of London 502 1 1
Shoreditch 52,739 1
Bethnal Green 64,555 1 2
Stepney 153,337 1
Poplar Borough 229,897 1
Southwark 68,487 1
Bermondsey 135,605 1
Lambeth 46,182 0 11¾
Wandsworth 54,510 1
Camberwell 89,059 1
Greenwich 119,868 1
Lewisham 29,141 0 11¼
Woolwich 42,927 1

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