836 REPORT—1899. 
With reference to pauperism, the followivg figures illustrate its progress in 
Copenhagen : 
Average number of 1886 1892 1898 
Indoor Paupers 2,820 2,631 2,304 
Outdoor Paupers F 5,194 6,889 5,905 
Boarded-out Children . 80L 768 RTL 
Pauper Lunatics . - 6 : 638 729 794 
Hospital Patients at the public 
expense - c C 580 549 526 
Total . 10,033 11,566 10,306 
Cost of pauperism £90,443 £109,175 £108,478 
The cost to Copenhagen of Old Age Relief was 25,720/. in 1898, and at the 
end of that year there were 5,838 pensioners with 1,378 dependents. The popula- 
tion was estimated at 349,000 in the middle of the year. 
Self-help is now directed to maintaining the qualifying independence of the 
poor-law for ten years, rather than vanishing. The undesirable results which have 
mavifested themselves are almost all traceable to the lack of fixity in the amount 
of relief granted. 
