No. of Parish.

XVI.

BODIED UNEMPLOYED.

unemployed and of other poor relieved on 12th May, and calendar year 1923;

relieved during the calendar year 1923; and

bodied during the calendar year 1923, and the rate per £ of

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"Number of poor" as used here includes paupers and dependants, but excludes lunatics, mental defectives, cases in receipt of outdoor medical relief only, and vagrants. The figures for 1922 given in Columns 3 to 9 of the statement in last year's Report should be amended to read:

Glasgow

Totals and averages

given for 1922 are approximate.)

(The method of preparing destitute able-bodied statistics was revised during 1923, and the revised figures now

APPENDIX XVII.

ABSTRACT OF CAPITAL RECEIPTS UNDER THE POOR LAW ACTS, AND EXPENDITURE OUT OF SAME, DURING THE YEAR ENDED 15TH

No. of County.

APPENDIX XVIII.

TABLE A.-SUMMARY OF ORDINARY RECEIPTS UNDER THE POOR LAW ACTS IN EACH COUNTY DURING THE YEAR ENDED 15TH MAY, 1923.

* These are average rates. The Owners' rate is obtained by dividing the amount of Rates collected from Owners by the Owners' Assessable Rental, and the Occupiers' rate by dividing the amount of Rates collected from Occupiers by the Occupiers' Assessable Rental.

(a) Includes grant from the Highlands and Islands (Medical Service) Fund towards the provision of medical officers' houses (Argyll Co. £1682, Inverness Co. £1012, Orkney Co. £795).

(b) Includes grant in respect of cost of Lithuanians (Lanark Co. £255, Midlothian Co. £307).

(e) Includes venereal diseases grant £57.

(d) Includes receipts in respect of determinations as to boundaries (Forfar Co. £500, Kincardine Co. £28). (e) Includes receipt from Military Authorities (Lanark Co. £41,819, Midlothian Co. £4876), and rent of a poorhouse leased to H. M. Office of Works, less rates, etc. (Midlothian Co. £899).

1,564

TOTAL.

No. of County.

APPENDIX

TABLE B.-SUMMARY OF ORDINARY EXPENDITURE UNDER THE POOR 1923, TOGETHER WITH LOANS OUTSTANDING, GROSS

1,655,701 (a) 628,900 470,380 211,441 51,361 11,137 4,883 (b) 1,498 79,036

The difference between Owners' and Occupiers' Assessable Rental is due to deductions to Occupiers of Agricultural Subjects under the Agricultural Rates (Scotland) Act, 1896. (a) In addition £1108 expended in connection with grounds and roads at a poorhouse is included at Column Relief to Destitute Able-bodied Unemployed."

(b) Includes payments in respect of determinations as to boundaries (Aberdeen County, £28; Forfar County, £500).

XVIII.-(continued).

LAW ACTS IN EACH COUNTY DURING THE YEAR ENDED 15TH MAY, VALUATION AND POOR LAW ASSESSABLE RENTALS.

(c) Includes £1108 on provision of work for the unemployed in connection with grounds and roads at a poorhouse.

(d) There were Sinking Funds at the close of the year as follows:- Argyll County, £8 on hand; Ayr County, £1043 on hand; Lanark County, £2753 overpaid.