SOCIAL SERVICES.
KELP OF STATE GRANTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Aug. 10. The local financial returns for the year 1934-35 have just been published by the Ministry of Health. The figures clearly show that it is largely by the help of the Government’s grants that the local authorities, especially in the poorer areas, are able to maintain good standards in health and other social services. Out of every £IOO of expenditure falling on the public fund in the average county' borough just over £39 is met not out of rates but out of grants from the national Exchequer. In one case this figure rises to £56. In the administrative counties, especially the rural areas where agricultural land pay no rates, the proportion from the Exchequer g/ants is still higher. The average is £47, but in 47 out of 62 counties it is over £SO, and in the Isle of Ely, Huntingdon, Montgomery and Rutland it is over £7O. \ . . +1 The proportion is lowest in the prosperous counties of the south-east, London being the lowest of all.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 9
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176SOCIAL SERVICES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 216, 12 August 1937, Page 9
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