The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-04 00:00:00

THE POOR LAW BOARD.

ANNUAL REPORT.
This morning the fifteenth annual report of the
Poor-law Board wee leaned.
It appears that during the year which ended with March
25, 1862, the sum of 6,077,9271. was expended for the relied
of the poor, being an increase of 298,2841. as compared with
the gam expended duringthe preceding year. Themly union
counties which exhibit decreased expenditure during the
period are Suffolk o's per cant., Sagest o'6, Cambridge 0"7,
Berke 013, Huntingdon It. The total amount of the ex.
penditure for the relief of the poor in England and Wales
for the year coding at Lady-day, 1862, exceeded by
238,981/. that of the previous year. The principal increase
has been in the counties of Warwick, Nottingham, and
Derby, and the West Riding of Yorkshire. In the county
of Lancaster the rate of increase has been 9•0 per cent., the
serious distress which has prevailed la the population
connected with the cotton manufacture in that
county having only partially commenced at the date to
which the statement of the expenditure is made up. The
returns of the number of persona in receipt of relief being
made up to a later period, and therefore being more
affected by the distr.n referred to, exhibit a larger
amount at increase. The returns for the whole kingdom on
the Ist of July, 1862, and theist of January, 1863, show, as
compared with the similar returns for the previous year, an
increase in the total number of persona receiving relief, on
the former date of 73,716 persons, or 8/ per cent., and on
the latter date of 194,120, or 203 per cent.
The commissioners add—" It is satisfactory to state

that, notwithstandiag the large number of persons who
have been thrown out of employment, and the serious and
sudden pressure which boa thus been cast upon those who
ware charged with the administration of the poor rates, so
cases have been brought under our notice of • failure
to supply all destitute persons with adequate relief ; and
although complaints have in some few instaitoesbeen made of
the conditions on which the guardians have afforded the
relief, an regards the hours of work or the amount of work
required, no well founded complaints have been substan-
tiated. We have much pleasure in adding that the work.
kg cheese in the cotton manufacturing district have con-
ducted themselves generally with admirable patience under
their privations. Some slight and temporary disturbances,
which occurred at Hyde, Ashton, and Stalybeidge, in which,
however, the great body of the operatives took no part,
were promptly repressed without any serious miachief
having been perpetrated."
The number of persona vaccinated by the public vaccine-
tor during the year is 442,395 ; the number dosses in which
vaccination was reported as sucosisful Si 437,693 ; the births
during the same period were 702,181. The commis loners
say.—" We believe that • considerable aumhsr of children
are vaccinated by private medical practitioners, who omit to
register them ; and many infects die before they are three
months old, the meat which vaccination is %wally performed.
These cases are not included in the vaminatiori returns made
to the board, and in some measure account for the total
somber of children vaccinated being much leas than the
number of births. There can be no doubt, however, that
partly from carelessness or indifference, and partly from
prejudice against vaccination, the provisions which the kw
hoc made with the object of extending the practice of vac-
cination have sot been so efeetnal as might be desired."

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