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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1541, 10 September 1912, Page 10

' PAUPERS AND PENSIONS. Owing to the gradual transference of paupers to the old nee pensions' list, the number of persons in receipt of relief in England and Wales on January 1 last wae' only 801,801, or 89,926 less than at the corronpondins date in 1911. The proportion of paupers to the totaj population of tho countries mentioned is stated officially at 29.3 per ICOO. or 1 in 34. In London the number of roliofs was 132,558, a decrease of 9429, when compared with 1911, but including thoEc over 70 years of ace, tho total became 117,213. as against 117.927, a reduction of only 714. It is noticeable that whilst indoor pauperism showed on the whole a. continuous increase (with the exception of 1912) the number receiving outdoor relief has fluctuated considerably in recent years, the aggregate given in the latest official returns beinir tho lowest for many years. The figures for indoor relief are in excess of those for any year recorded prior to 19C9, and the genera! increase in that particular class somewhat exceeded tho growth of population. The statistics afford evidence that the number of persons requiring relief for causcf other than, those arising from bodily sickness fluctuates widely, although the army of "able-bodied" paupers shows a tendency to (steadily inar«ia*