APPENDIX XV.-(continued). TABLE IV.-Average Number of Poor on three given days, and Number of Sane and other than Sane Poor at 15th May; together with Rates per 1000 Population for each of the last Ten Years and for each Tenth Year from 1868. Average receipt of Parochial Relief per Population. * Prior to 1915 the figures relate to lunatic poor only. From 1915 the figures include certified mental defectives. + The figures in italics relate to destitute able-bodied, and for the years 1921 and 1922 are as revised on more recent information. Number as at 14th May. § The ratio of poor other than sane to poor of all classes, excluding the destitute able-bodied, was 143 in 1922, and 142 in 1923. APPENDIX XV.-(continued.) TABLE V.-PAUPER CHILDREN.-Details for each of the last 10 Years. * Includes cases boarded in orphanages, industrial schools, and institutions other than poorhouses. APPENDIX XV.—(continued). TABLE VI.-AGED SANK POOR.-Details for 1910 and each Number of Sane Poor aged 70 and upwards at 15th January. Number of Sane Poor aged 70 and upwards at 15th September. Note.-The removal of pauper disqualification, by the Old Age Pensions Act, 1911, accounts for the abnormal decrease in aged poor subsequent to 1910. The Old Age Pensions Act, 1919, which enabled old age pensioners to receive poor relief without forfeiting their pension, resulted in an increase in aged poor subsequent to January, 1920. R STATEMENT showing for 36 Parishes: APPENDIX DESTITUTE ABLE (a) The rates per 10,000 population of destitute able-bodied the average rates per 10,000 population during the (b) The average number of destitute able-bodied unemployed (c) The expenditure on poor relief to the destitute ablegross valuation represented by such expenditure. Note.-35 of the above Parishes were selected as having a high average rate of pauperism (including destitute able-bodied unemployed) throughout the year, all of them having an average rate exceeding 350 per 10,000 popula tion. Dundee, which has an average pauperism rate of only 288, was added in view of the importance of the Parish. The number of destitute able-bodied unemployed relieved by the 36 Parishes on 15th May represented 97 per the total number of such cases relieved in Scotland. |