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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Amount of Poor Law Relief.
The Clerk to the Board of Guardians has kindly given me the
following information with reference to the above for the year
ended 31st December, 1922:—
(1) No. of admissions to the Poor Law Institutions 2,962
(2) No. of medical orders given 2,682
(3) Average No. of persons in receipt of outdoor relief 6,471
(4) Amount of outdoor relief given £98,693
The total number of deaths in Poor Law Institutions was 806,
or 21.4 per cent, of the total deaths. Of these, only six deaths
occurred in a Poor Law Institution in the Borough, and 800 outside
the Borough.
The extent to which Hospital and other forms of Gratuitous
Medical Relief are utilised.
This can at present only be given as far as the number of deaths
is concerned, as this Department has no means of ascertaining
the number of cases from the Borough treated by such institutions.
The following Table shows the various institutions in which
deaths occurred during the year, and the number of deaths in
each.