Mr. C. WILSONasked the Minister of Health the average weekly cost per head for food and drink in the case of children's homes, men and women, respectively, in Poor Law institutions, apart from the hospitals and in asylums?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINAccording to returns furnished to me, the average weekly cost, per inmate, for the year ended 31st March, 1926, of the provisions supplied to the inmates of the separate Poor Law establishments for children (other than institutions wholly appropriated to sick children) in England and Wales for which separate accounts are kept, was 4s. 7d.
According to the same returns the average weekly cost, per inmate, for the same year, of the provisions supplied to the inmates (men, women and children) of the general Poor Law institutions (i.e., institutions other than those wholly appropriated to the sick and mentally infirm and establishments for children in cases where separate accounts are kept) was 5s. 5¼d.