690 FOURTH REPORT — 1834. 



G824. Spinsters 1882. Female householders 8706. Total 

 families 41,965. 



Countries toivhichthe Populafion belongs. — Scotch 163,600. 

 English 2919. Irish 35,554. Foreigners 353. Total 202,426. 



ReligionofthePopidation. — Established 104,162. Dissenters, 

 Episcopalians and Jews 71:299. Roman Catholics 26,965. 

 Total 202,426. 



Number of Paupers and expense of maintaining them. — The 

 number of paupers in the city and suburbs being 5006, and the 

 population 202,426, there is one pauper for every 40^%^^ . 



The number of paupers being 5006, and the sum expended 

 for their maintenance or relief 17,281Z. 18*. 0\d., shows the cost 

 of each pauper to be 3/. 9s. 0\d. If the sum for the relief of 

 paupers were eq\ially paid by the whole non-recipient population, 

 the proportion to each would be one shilling and ninepence and 

 a small fraction. The sum of 17,281/. 18s. O^^rf. includes the 

 entire expenditure of the out- and in-door paupers, surgeon's 

 salaries, medicines, clothing and educating children, maintaining 

 lunatics, funeral charges, &c. 



The cost of each pauper in St. John's parish is 3/'. 8s. \(i\d. 

 The poor in that parish are maintained or relieved on the paro- 

 chial system introduced by Dr. Chalmers in 1820, i.e. by the 

 Kirk Session from its own resources, without receiving any part 

 of the general assessment for the poor, although the inhabitants 

 of St. John's parish are assessed for the maintenance of the poor 

 generally in the same manner as other citizens. 



Analysis of the Beport of an Agent employed by the Manchester 

 - Statistical Society in 1 834, to visit the Diuellings and ascertain 

 the condition of the Working Population in Police Division 

 No. 2, and in the first Subdivision of Police Division No. 1, 

 of the Toivn of Manchester*. Communicated by the Society. 

 The agent having been refused admittance into some houses, 

 and the occupiers of others being absent and their dwellings 

 closed, his report only extends to 4102 families, but which num- 

 ber comprises all the labouring population within this district 

 into whose houses he obtained access. 



The Report on the condition of the dwellings must be consi- 

 dered merel}'^ as the general impression of the agent, an intelli- 

 gent Irishman, who was himself a hand-loom weaver, and who 

 in this classification has been principally guided by the appear- 

 ance of cleanliness or otherwise in the dwellings. 



All the other entries are stated from the answers given by the 

 parties themselves. 



» The population of this portion of the town is (according to the census of 

 1831) 42,135 or 8932 families. It is a district inhabited more than any other 

 in the town by the working classes and by those of the poorest description. It 

 was on that account determined to commence the investigation in this quarter. 



