The population of the Parish of Liverpool is about 270,000.
The expenditure from the poor’s-rate in and about the relief of
the poor is about 100,000_l_. per annum.
Of this about 40,000_l_. is distributed in out-door relief as
money and bread. (Of course sickness is one great cause of persons
seeking relief, though to what extent this cause operates, even
directly, I cannot on so short a notice ascertain or even
estimate.)