Note 60 — Chapter XIX · THE AGED POOR
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The Royal Commission on the Poor Laws called for a similar "year count" of paupers for 1907. It revealed that in that year of good trade 1,709,436 persons were relieved by the Guardians in England and Wales. This is 47.7 per 1,000 of the population. The later count fully confirms that of 1892.
[61] This description is their own. See "Old Age Pensions" (Macmillan & Co.) Introduction.