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10
LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE DEPARTMENT—AREA II.
Number of Persons Afforded Relief other than Institutional Relief.
Week Ending 29tii December, 1935.
Numbeis excluding Casuals and persons in receipt of
Medical Relief only.
Persons in
receipt of
Medical
Relief only
Men
Women
Children
under
16
Total
Persons
Total
Cases
Ablebodied
men
Men set to
work or training included
in previous
Column
1,425
1,930
1,796
5,151
2,430
357
195
23
During 1935, Waterloo House, formerly used as a
Public Assistance " Institution," was closed and it
has since been demolished. Consequently any
"institutional relief" afforded to Bethnal Green
residents apart from Bethnal Green Hospital is now
provided out of the Borough. Children are still
cared for at the Leytonstone Children's Homes.
I am informed by the Education Officer that the
average number of necessitous school children provided with meals of some kind at public elementary
schools in the Borough during the year was 872
(milk), and 51 (dinners). This number of children
is surprisingly small in view of the widespread
poverty in the Borough. The number of children
obtaining cheap milk under the scheme of the Milk
Marketing Board is not known.
Economic enquiries made in connection with
applications for various Maternity and Child Welfare