A Parliamentary Paper issued on Monday gives the figures for
in-door and out-door relief since 1906, and shows their relation to old-age pensions. In 1906 the number of persons in receipt of out-door relief was 168,096; in January, 1913, the number was only 8,563. The pauper disqualification, it will be remembered, was removed in 1911, and the greatest decrease naturally occurred immediately afterwards. The decrease in in-door relief is much less marked. In 1906 the number was 61,378; in January, 1913, it was 49,207. The total sum paid as old-age pensions in the year 1911-12 for England and Wales as a whole amounted to 27,948,016, being equivalent to a rate of 9d. in the pound. For Wales, taken separately, the equivalent rate is 11d. The amount for the administrative county of London as a whole is represented by a 4d. rate, and for other administrative counties the come. sponding figure ranges from 6d. to 2s. 9d. in the pound. In the counties of Cornwall, Norfolk, West Suffolk, Anglesey, Cardigan, and Pembroke the equivalent rate is upwards of 2s.
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