1801 . £4,017,871 9s. ld.
1811 . 6,656,105 13 1 1821 . 6,959,249 10 7 1831 . 6,798,888 9 9 1841 . 4,760,929 6 2 The sums expended for relief for a year or two before the passing of the Poor-Law Amendment Act and in subsequent years are shown in the following table:— £ £ 1832 7,036,968 1839 4,421,714 1833 6,790,799 1840 4,576,965 1834 6,317,254 1841 4,760,929 1835 5,526,418 1842 4,911,498 1836 4,717,630 1843 5,208,027 1837 4,044,741 1844 4,976,093 1838 4,123,604 A great saving has also been effected in irregular and illegal expenses in conse quence of the appointment of auditors for the different Unions.
Number of in-door and out-door pau pers relieved, including children, during the following years ending Easter or Lady-day n :— - Proportion per cent. to Paupers. Population.
1803 1,040,716 12 1815 1,319,851 13 1842 1,429,356 9 1843 1,546,390 9•7 1844 1,477,561 9.3 Number of in-door paupers in 1844, 230,818; ont-door 1,246,743. "Of the million and a half of persons thus relieved, a large proportion were permanent pan pe, but the number of new cases in the other three quarters may be safely esti timated at half a million ; so that the number of persons relieved in England and Wales, in the course of the parochial year 1844, may be about two millions, or nearly one-eighth part of the actual population. In other words, about
one person in eight, through the entire population, received relief from the poor's rate at some time during that year." (Eleventh Report of the Poor-Law Com missioners.) It should be recollected, however, that if a person ceases to receive relief and again applies for it he is reck oned twice over ; but to what extent this is done cannot be ascertained from the Poor-Law Reports.
The expenditure of 585 Unions in England and Wales for 1843-4 was for In-maintenance £705,253 Out-relief . . . 2,726,451 Establishment charges and salaries . . . .48,985 Workhouse loans repaid . 183,898 Other charges connected with relief . . • • 5,584 Total . 4,370,171 The number of paupers relieved in 103 Unions in Ireland for the quarter ending 29th September, 1844, was 64,487. The average number of days during which each pauper was relieved was 92 days. The total number of Unions in Ireland is 130.