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Tlio AvKRAGK Prices of Consols, of Meat, and of Potatoes, and also the 

 AvKiiAGE Number of Paupers bewevei) on the last day of each Week, in 

 cacli of the Years 1857-1866, 



PAUPERISM. 



The annual return of the number of paupers in England at the beginning 

 of the year shows tliat on the 1st of January, 1867, the number was 963,200, 

 being 1 in 21, or 4'8 per cent, of the actual po])ulatiou, and an increase of 

 38,387, or 4*2 per cent., over the number at the corresponding date in 1866. 

 The details whicli follow do not absolutely agree with the above statement, 

 owing to 810 paupers having been in receipt of both indoor and outdoor relief. 

 The indoor ])aup(irs on t\w 1st of January, 1867, were 148,195 ; the outdoor 

 81.5,005. 201,511 were men, 411,136 women, 345,877 children ; 41(i,310 were 

 able-bodied, 501,124 not able-bodied, 41,090 insane ; and 5027 vagrants. Of 

 the able-bodied, 41,729 were men, and 11(;,579 wonuai ; and 258,002 children 

 were relieved with tlieir parents classed among the able-bodied adults ; of the 

 not able-bodied, 142,193 were men, 271,8(;4 women; 87,067 cliildren; and of 

 the insane, 17,589 were men, 22,693 women, 808 children. The number of 

 able-bodied adult paupers relieved was 158,308, an increase of 8988, or 6 per 

 cent, over the number on tlie 1st of Januarj^ 1866. deceiving indoor relief 

 there were 47,049 men, 46,276 women, 51,304 children, 3566 vagrants not 

 otherwise classed ; or classing otherwise, 41,936 able-bodied, 92,176 not able- 

 bodied, 10,517 insane, 3566 vagrants. 



