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 EDUCATION GRANTS. 
 
 Memoeandum for the Conference of Local Education Authorities on Education Grants, 
 
 11th December, 1908. 
 
 A— Historical. 
 
 The principal Government grants in aid of elementary education are the following : — • 
 
 (I.) “ Annual ” grants, comprising the grants fixed by the Board of Education in respect 
 
 of normal instruction given to children in ordinary elementary schools. 
 
 (II.) Fee grant, payable under the Elementary Education Act, 1891, in replacement 
 of school fees formerly charged. 
 
 (III.) Aid grant, payable under the Education Act, 1902. 
 
 In addition to these principal grants there are the following special grants, namely : — 
 
 (IV.) Necessitous areas grant — A special (temporary) grant to areas having exceptionally 
 high education rates. 
 
 (V.) Special grants for the building of new public elementary schools. 
 
 (VI.) Grants for special subjects of instruction, such as cookery, laundry work, handi- 
 craft, etc. 
 
 (VII.) Special grants to schools in areas with very small populations. 
 
 There are also grants in respect of the following special types of school : — 
 
 (VIII.) Higher elementary schools. 
 
 (IX.) “ Special ” schools (for bhnd, deaf, defective and epileptic children). 
 
 Particulars of these grants as at 'present in force are set out in Appendix A. 
 
 The Government grants in respect of higher education are dealt with in section X. 
 
 L— “ANNUAL” GRANTS. 
 
 The “ annual ” grants are the most important group financially. At present they consist of a 
 uniform grant of 22s. per scholar in average attendance in boys’ and girls’ departments, and 17s. a 
 head in respect of scholars in infants’ departments unless the latter do not number more than 20 in a 
 school, in which case the grant is 22s. This uniform grant has only been in force since 1904 and it 
 takes the place of a series of grants instituted at various times with the object of encouraging different 
 branches of elementary education and difierent methods of instruction. 
 
 These grants, since their first institution, have been subject to continual modifications and 
 to periodical changes of policy. The change from casual grants in aid of the provision of schools to 
 regular grants in aid of the maintenance of education may be traced through six periods of 
 development. 
 
 (i.) In the first period (commencing 18.33), the grants wer-e confined to aiding the erection of 
 schools and training colleges and the provision of apparatus, subject to at least half the cost being 
 met by voluntary subscriptions. 
 
 (ii.) The second step was taken in 1846, when grants were given to encourage the training of 
 teachers, in the form of stipends for pupil teachers, “ Queen’s scholarships,” and maintenance grants 
 to training colleges. Grants were also given in augmentation of teachers’ salaries, the whole scheme 
 of grants being directed to the improvement of the quahfications of the teachers. 
 
 (iii.) A third stage of development was reached in 1853, when grants were given towards the 
 general maintenance expenses of the schools, in the form of capitation grants based on the number of 
 scholars making a certain number of attendances. This grant was subject to a certain income per 
 scholar being provided by endowments, etc., and to three-fourths of the scholars passing an examination. 
 
 (iv.) The fourth stage was the institution of payment according to results of individual 
 examinations. This principle was introduced in 1862, and continued in force for about 40 years, 
 although numerous modifications in the rate of the grants and the method of calculating them were 
 made during that period. At first only a portion of the grant was made to depend on the results of 
 examinations. 
 
 At this stage the direct grants in aid of teachers’ salaries were dropped. 
 
 In 1867 the grant dependent on results was increased by the payment of an additional sum for 
 an extended curriculum, and, in 1871, by the institution of separate grants for passes in “ specific ” 
 subjects. 
 
 After 1871 no new building grants were sanctioned. 
 
 In 1875 the system of “ payment by results ” was further developed by the introduction of 
 grants for “class” subjects. 
 
 (v.) The fifth stage was reached in 1882, when a move was made in the direction of making 
 the grants dependent on the results of inspection rather than on examination of individual scholars ; 
 but this change was not carried out to any considerable extent till the year 1890, when examination 
 of individual scholars was dispensed with as regards elementary subjects. 
 
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 In 1892 individual examination was entirely aboUshed as a basis of grants. The system known 
 as “payment by results” now disappeared, the principal group of grants being replaced by a general 
 capitation grant with some differentiation according to the Inspector’s report. 
 
 (vi.) The final step in the process of consolidation was taken in 1900 when a single capitation 
 grant was established, with only a very slight differentiation in the case of schools which were obviously 
 inefficient. This, it will be seen, is practically a reversion to the system of capitation grants in force 
 before 18G2, but unquahfied by the efficiency gi’ants paid in respect of trained teachers. 
 
 The above is a brief outline of the different stages through which the grants have been developed, 
 and the changes are set out in more detail in Appendix B. 
 
 The history of the “annual” grants may now be summarised briefly. "When the grants 
 were first instituted they were made in aid of the provision of schools and were a certain proportion of 
 the estimated expenditure. When it became necessary to give assistance in the maintenance of the 
 schools, grants were given in aid of teachers’ salaries ; these also were dependent upon expenditure. 
 Along with these grants a small capitation grant was instituted, based on the number of scholars 
 under instruction and conditional on three-fourths of the children passing an examination. This 
 system was only in force for a few years, however, and was superseded by the system of “ payment 
 by results,” on the recommendation of the Duke of Newcastle’s Commission after an exhaustive inquiry. 
 This system, which aimed at giving additional assistance where extra efficiency was attained, con- 
 tinued in force, with varying schemes of grants, for forty years, and, in a modified form, for a further 
 period of eight years. 
 
 It will thus be seen that up to the year 1900 the grants in force always had some relation either 
 to actual expenditure or to results obtained. During the period from 1862 to 1900, and especially 
 between 1871 and 1890, a considerable number of separate grants were offered, to encourage efficiency 
 of instruction and a liberal extension of the elementary curriculum. The principle underlying the 
 grants during this period was the rewarding of excellence by increased grants. Afterwards, when a 
 substantial advance had been achieved, and comparatively efficient systems of elementary education 
 had been initiated in most parts of the country, this financial encouragement was withdrawn and a uni- 
 form grant set up, the only difference made between an excellent school and an inefficient one being 
 the possibility in the latter case of some reduction in the grant, or in extreme cases the withholding of 
 the grant altogether. As, however, this power of reduction or withdrawal is used very sparingly it 
 can have but little effect in improving the standard of efficiency, or even in keeping up a general 
 high standard. 
 
 Immediately before the Code of 1900 came into force the possible grant for an individual scholar 
 ranged from 16s. 3d. to 28s. 9d. ; as, however, the latter includes 5s. in respect of “ specific ” subjects, which 
 could only be earned by scholars in Standard V. and upwards, the maximum grant on average attend- 
 ance may be estimated at about 26s. Thus there was a margin of 10s. between the grant which could 
 be earned by a school which satisfied the minimum requirements of the Board of Education and that 
 which could be earned by a school which was efficient in every respect according to the standard of 
 the Board. But when the Code of 1900 came into force a fixed grant of 22s. per scholar was given 
 lo practically all schools, a reduction being made only in exceptional cases. Thus the more 
 efficient and less efficient schools were brought almost to the same level in the matter of these grants. 
 
 It must be borne in mind that, as a general rule, extra efficiency involves extra cost. Improve- 
 ments in the standard of instruction involve additional expenditure on the teaching staff, both in the 
 direction of increasing the strength and of obtaining teachers with higher quahfications ; and the high 
 standard of efficiency in buildings insisted on by the Board of Education has involved large expendi- 
 ture in that direction also. Thus there has been a steady increase in the annual cost per child ever since 
 the grant system was firmly established. In 1872 the average cost of “ maintenance” per child in 
 average attendance in board schools in England and Wales was £1 8s. 4d., and in voluntary schools 
 £1 7s. 5d. In subsequent decennial periods the average increased to the following figures : — 
 
 
 Board schools. 
 
 Voluntary schools. 
 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 1882 
 
 2 16 
 
 1 14 7 
 
 1892 ... 
 
 2 8 5 
 
 1 17 9 
 
 1902 
 
 3-9 
 
 .... 2 6 3 
 
 In 1906-7, the latest year for which figures are available, the cost in the two classes of schools 
 cannot be given separately, but the average cost in all schools was £3 4s. lOd. 
 
 II.— FEE GKANT. 
 
 The fee grant differs from all other grants in aid of elementary education in that it was insti- 
 tuted neither to encourage increased expenditure (with a view to increased efficiency) nor to relieve the 
 burden on local funds. Its object was the transfer to the State of the bulk of the charge formerly 
 borne by the parents of the scholars. Its effect, therefore, was mainly a shifting of a portion of the 
 burden of educational expenditure, but no doubt it had some effect on educational efficiency, as it would 
 be easier to enforce attendance when the schools became free than when fees were charged. 
 
 The grant was sanctioned by the Elementary Education Act, 1891. It is at the rate of lOs. per 
 head of the scholars between the ages of 3 and 15 in average attendance. The grant is paid to the 
 
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 managers of schools in which either {a) no fees are charged, or (h) the fees charged are less than those 
 in force before 1891 by at least 10s. per scholar. 
 
 The adoption of the provisions of the Act was optional, but as soon as the Act came into force 
 its provisions were adopted almost universally by the school managers. At August, 1893, only 132 
 schools, out of a total number of 19,515 under inspection, had refused the grant. In 1907 the number 
 refusing the grant had sunk to 73 departments. 
 
 The Act of 1891 also provided that if at any time it was represented to the Education Depart- 
 ment that there was in any school district an insufficient amount of free school accommodation 
 for children betwesn the ages of 3 and 15, for whom such accommodation was desired, and the 
 Department was satisfied, after inquiry, that such was the case, they could direct a school board to 
 supply such free accommodation. In cases in which substantial fees had previously been charged 
 (the maximum allowed being 9d. per week, or about £1 10s. per annum) and a considerable number 
 of free places was requisitioned, this provision might entail considerable loss to the school managers, 
 especially as the provisions of a number of free places would make it difficult to enforce the fees in 
 respect of the remainder. 
 
 The fees charged immediately before the Act of 1891 came into force were equivalent, on the 
 average, to about 10s. 4|-d. per scholar in average attendance, the figures for the last three years 
 being as follows : — 
 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 1888-9 
 
 10 
 
 31 
 
 1889-90 
 
 10 
 
 43 
 
 1890-1 
 
 10 
 
 5 
 
 but, as no tees were charged in some schools, and the scales of fees varied considerably, it will be 
 seen that a grant of 10s. per scholar was not sufficient to replace the income from fees in each 
 school. 
 
 On the whole, however, the estabhshment of the fee grant appears to have added somewhat 
 to the income of the schools for some years after the Act was passed. Figures comparable with those 
 given above are not available for any year later than 1901-2, but the following figures show the 
 average receipts per scholar from fee grant and fees in the last three years for which the information 
 is given in the Board of Education Reports : — 
 
 
 Fee grant. 
 
 Fees. 
 
 Total. 
 
 
 s. d. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 s. d. 
 
 1899-1900 
 
 10 - 
 
 1 -i .. 
 
 11 -i 
 
 1900-1 
 
 9 lOJ ... 
 
 - Hi .. 
 
 10 10 
 
 1901-2 
 
 9 8| ... 
 
 - 10| 
 
 10 7J 
 
 At this period, it will be seen, the total income per scholar from fees and fee grant was slightly 
 in excess of the amount received from fees before the Act of 1891 was passed. Since 1901-2, how- 
 ever, the number of scholars paying fees has diminished from 633,226 to 174,418 (in 1906-7), so that 
 it is probable that the sums received from the fee grant are now barely sufficient to make up for the loss 
 in the receipts from fees. 
 
 III.— AID GRANT. 
 
 The aid grant at present in force is a development of the special grant to school boards in poor 
 districts provided for by section 97 of the Elementary Education Act, 1870. This enactment provided 
 that where the sum raised in rates for the purpose of the expenses of any school board for any year 
 amounted to a sum which would have been raised by a rate of 3d. in the £ on the rateable value 
 of the district, and any such rate would have produced less than £20, or less than 7s. 6d. per child 
 in average attendance, such school boards should be entitled, in addition to the ordinary Parliamentary 
 grants, to such further sum as, when added to the sum raised in rates, would make up the sum of 
 £20, or the sum of 7s. 6d. per scholar, as the case might be. 
 
 The formula for calculating the grant may be stated shortly as follows •: — 
 
 (o) £20 minus the produce of a 3d. rate ; or 
 
 (b) 7s. 6d. per scholar minus the produce of a 3d. rate ; 
 
 but before the grant could be claimed a rate of 3d. in the £ had to be raised. 
 
 This provision was amended by the Elementary Education Act, 1897 (commonly known as the 
 Necessitous School Boards Act), which provided that the sum of 7s. 6d. mentioned in the Act of 
 1870 should be increased by the sum of 4d. for every complete Id. by which the school board rate 
 for the year exceeded 3d., but that the sum of 7s. 6d. should not be thereby increased beyond the 
 l6s. 6d. In other words, an additional grant of 4d. per scholar was given for each Id. rate levied 
 beyond 3d. in the £, such additional grant, however, not to exceed 9s. per scholar (which would be 
 claimable in cases in which a rate of 2s. 6d. in the £ was levied). 
 
 In the same year an “aid” grant for voluntary schools was instituted by the Voluntary 
 Schools Act, 1897, which provided for an additional grant not exceeding in the aggregate 5s. per scholar 
 in average attendance. This grant was to be distributed by the Board of Education “ in such manner 
 and amounts as the Department think best for the purpose of helping necessitous schools and in- 
 creasing their efficiency, due regard being had to the maintenance of voluntary subscriptions.” The 
 rate of ^ant was fixed by the Department at 5s. 9d. per scholar in town schools and 3s. 3d. per 
 scholar in country schools. The grants were distributed, for the most part, through associations of 
 voluntary schools formed for this purpose^under^thejprovisions of the Act. 
 
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 The above grants were superseded, under the Education Act, 1902 (section 10) by a new aid 
 grant payable to all local education authorities and consisting of two parts, one being at a uniform 
 rate throughout the country and the other being differentiated for the various areas according to 
 a formula dependent on the relation between the number of scholars and the rateable value of the 
 area. The two parts of the grant are calculated as follows : — 
 
 (a) 4s. per scholar in average attendance ; 
 
 {b) An additional sum of Hd. per scholar for every complete 2d. per scholar by which 
 
 the amount which would be produced by a Id. rate on the area of the authority falls short 
 
 of 10s. a scholar. 
 
 The formula for the computation of the differential part of the grant may be stated shortly as 
 follows : — 
 
 f (10s. per scholar — produce of a Id. rate) ; or, more simply — 
 
 7s. 6d. per scholar minus produce of a |d. rate. 
 
 Thus the whole grant is equivalent to 11s. 6d. per scholar minus the produce of a |d. rate. 
 
 The amount of the whole grant 'per scholar is 11s. 6d. minus produce per scholar of a |d. rate. 
 
 From the above formula it will be seen that the varying grant is calculated in a similar 
 manner to that under the Act of 1870, except that the amount of differentiation is dependent on the 
 produce of a rate of |d. instead of a rate of 3d. 
 
 The principle underlying the above formula is to give a higher rate of grant where the rateable 
 value, compared with the number of scholars, is low, and to give a lower grant where the rateable 
 value is high. While the grant thus uses a high rateable value as a reason for reducing the grant it 
 takes no account of the higher cost of education in areas of high rateable value. The aid grant is 
 therefore unfair to areas of high rateable value, since the advantage of a high rateable value may 
 be largely counterbalanced by a correspondingly high cost of sites and buildings and a high scale of 
 teachers’ salaries. 
 
 This objection was to some extent met in the original aid grant, as amended in 1897. That 
 grant, as shown above, consisted of two parts, one being dependent on the relation of rateable value 
 to the number of scholars and the other on the amount in the £ of the charge on rates. As, however, 
 the second part of the grant was at the rate of only 4d. per scholar for each Id. of the rate levied, 
 and the average produce of a Id. rate per scholar is about 3s., the grant only met a small proportion 
 of the additional cost falling on rates in places having a high rateable value. 
 
 Another objection to the basis of the aid grant is that the rate of grant is reduced by the 
 exclusion of children of elementary school class maintained in special schools and of those to whom 
 scholarships to secondary schools have been awarded from the number of scholars on which the grant 
 is calculated. 
 
 IV.— NECESSITOUS AREAS GRANT. 
 
 The system of grants in force since the passing of the Act of 1902 appears to have been insuffi- 
 cient to prevent the education rates rising in certain districts to an extremely high rate in the £, and 
 this fact led to a demand for further grants. In order to meet this demand temporarily, additional 
 sums have been granted in the years 1906-7 and 1907-8 to education authorities whose rates were 
 exceptionally high. This additional grant was calculated, for the year 1906-7, at three-fourths of 
 the sum by which the net expenditure from rates on elementary education in the year 1905-6 exceeded 
 the produce of a rate of 18d. in the £. The total amount for the year 1906-7 was £170,873. A list 
 of the authorities receiving this grant, with the amount received for the year 1906-7 and the equiva- 
 lent rate in the £ of the same, is appended to this report. (Appendix D.) 
 
 This grant re-introduces the principle embodied in the grants under the Necessitous School 
 Boards Act, viz., a grant graduated in accordance with the charge on rates. There is, however, an 
 important difference in the manner in which the principle is applied. In the old grant the graduation 
 depended on a charge on rates exceeding 3d. in the £ and not exceeding 2s. 6d. in the £ ; no additional 
 grant was paid in respect of a charge on rates beyond 2s. 6d. The new grant, on the other hand, 
 depends on the charge on rates beyond Is. 6d. in the £ only. The latter is a less satisfactory method 
 than the former. A higher rate of expenditure may be due to extravagance as well as to necessity, 
 and if three-fourths of all expenditure beyond a certain point were borne by grants the incentive to 
 economy would be considerably weakened. If expenditure is taken as the basis of grants it would be 
 more prudent, as well as more equitable, to give a smaller proportion of the whole expenditure, rather 
 than a high proportion of the expenditure in excess of a certain arbitrary standard. 
 
 V.— SPECIAL BUILDING GRANTS. 
 
 In 1907, a sum of £100,000 was voted by Parliament for the purpose of making grants to local 
 education authorities for the building of new public elementary schools in districts in which the only 
 school available was of a denominational character. 
 
 Under the regulations made by the Board of Education, dated 13th August, 1907, the Board 
 undertook to make grants during the year ended 3lst March, 1908, in circumstances which, in their 
 view, rendered such grants expedient, in aid of the building of public elementary schools provided 
 by local education authorities. Applications could be made by the local education authorities, but 
 the Board would also consider and bring to the notice of the local education authority concerned any 
 cases brought before them by minor local authorities or by parents. The grants were, however, only 
 payable to local education authorities. Before making a grant the Board required to be satisfied that 
 the accommodation to be provided was necessary, and in considering this point they required, inter aha, 
 
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 satisfactory evidence that the parents of 30 children of school age desired accommodation in a public 
 elementary school provided by the local authority, and that the only satisfactory public school accommo- 
 dation of a permanent character available for those children was in schools not so provided. In no 
 case was a grant to be given in respect of school places needed to make good a numerical deficiency 
 of public elementary school accommodation, which the local authority would be obliged in any event 
 to provide. 
 
 A sum of £40,000 was included in the estimates of the Board of Education for the year 1908-9 
 to provide building grants. At 31st October, 1908, £14,454 had been paid, £17,065 promised and 
 £21,850 provisionally allocated; a total of £53,369. 
 
 VI.— GRANTS FOR SPECIAL SUBJECTS. 
 
 The only subjects for which separate grants are now given are those which involve training 
 in practical work, viz., cookery, laundry-work, housewifery, dairy-work, gardening, and handicraft 
 (woodwork and metal-work). 
 
 Cookery was the first subject of practical training for which grants were given. The Code of 
 1875 recognised attendance at cookery lessons, and thereafter the subject was taught in an increasing 
 number of schools ; but it was not till 1882 that a grant was offered for this subject. The Code 
 of that year provided that in schools in which special and appropriate provision was made for the 
 practical teaching of cookery, that subject could be taken as a “specific” subject and a grant of 
 4s. would be made on account of any girl over 12 years of age who had attended not less than 
 40 hours at the cookery class and was presented for examination in the elementary subjects in any 
 standard (other “specific” subjects were hmited to scholars in standards V. and upwards). 
 
 In 1890 a grant for laundry-work was added, at the rate of 2s. for any girl who had attended 
 a laundry class for not less than 20 hours. Both these grants were now confined to girls who were 
 presented for examination in standard IV. or upwards and who were not presented for examination in 
 other “ specific ” subjects, if only one of the grants were claimed, however, one other “ specific ” subject 
 could be taken. \ 
 
 In 1893 a grant of 4s. per scholar was offered for dairy-work for girls in standard IV. and 
 upwards, imder conditions similar to those applicable to the grant for cookery. 
 
 In 1895, a grant was offered for cottage gardening, at the rate of 2s. (or 4s.) for any boy who 
 had attended 20 (or 40) times at a practical gardening class. The boys must be in standard IV. or 
 upwards, and not be presented in more than one “ specific ” subject. 
 
 In 1898 handicraft was added to the special subjects for which grants were offered, the grant 
 being at the rate of 63. or 7s. (according to the Inspector’s report) for any boy in standard V., VI. 
 or VII., who had received practical instruction in a properly fitted workshop for 2 hours a week for 
 20 weeks. 
 
 In 1900 a grant was instituted for practical instruction in household management, including 
 cookery, laundry-work, and practical housewifery. This grant was alternative to those for cookery, 
 laundry-work and dairy-work, and was at the rate of 7s. per 100 hours’ attendance for each girl in 
 standard V. or upwards who had attended lessons given in accordance with a scheme approved by 
 the Education Department. 
 
 Various alterations have been made from time to time in the conditions on which these grants 
 are given, but very httle change has taken place in the rate of the grants. The grants now in force 
 are as follows : — 
 
 Cookery 
 
 ... 4s. 
 
 for each scholar. 
 
 Laundry -work ... 
 
 ... 2s. 
 
 
 >5 
 
 99 
 
 Combined domestic subjects 
 
 ... 7s. 
 
 6d. 
 
 ” 
 
 „ (increased up to 15s. in pro- 
 
 portion to length of course). 
 
 Dairy-work — 
 
 
 
 
 Long course 
 
 ... 4s. 
 
 
 
 99 
 
 Short course 
 
 ... 2s. 
 
 
 59 
 
 99 
 
 Gardening 
 
 ... 2s. 
 
 
 99 
 
 „ for each course of 20 hours’ 
 
 attendance (two courses 
 may be taken in one year). 
 
 Handicraft — 
 
 
 
 
 Long course 
 
 ... 7s. 
 
 
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 99 
 
 Short course 
 
 ... 3s. 
 
 6d. 
 
 99 
 
 99 
 
 \^II.— SMALL POPULATIONS GRANT. 
 
 The Elementary Education Act of 1876 made provision for special assistance to schools in small 
 or sparsely populated districts, a special grant of £15 per annum being made in cases where the 
 population of the school district in which the school was situate, or the population within two miles 
 of the school, did not exceed 200, and there was no other public elementary school available for the 
 children of the district. If the population exceeded 200, but was less than 300, a grant of £10 per 
 annum was allowed. 
 
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 The Education Code Act of lS90(confinning the Code of'that year), provided for an additional 
 "rant of £10 per annum in cases where the population of the school district in which a school was 
 situate, or the population within two miles of the school, was less than 500, and there was no other 
 public elementary school available. This grant was subject to certain special conditions as to staffing. 
 
 Under these provisions, which are still in force, the special grants are of three grades, viz. : — 
 
 
 First special 
 
 Second special 
 
 
 grant. 
 
 grant. 
 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 Populations not exceeding 200 
 
 15 
 
 10 
 
 Populations of 200 to 300 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 Populations of 300 to 500 
 
 — 
 
 10 
 
 VIII.— HIGHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. 
 
 Higher elementary schools were first recognised by a minute of the Board of Education 
 dated 6th April, 1900. They were intended to give elementary instruction of a more advanced kind 
 than had up to that time been possible under the Code. Under the minute the schools had to be 
 organised to give a complete four years’ course of instruction approved by the Board. 
 
 The grants to be made to higher elementary schools were based on average attendance, 
 as follows : — • 
 
 
 (I.) Principal grant. 
 
 (II.) Grant for practical work. 
 
 Higher scale. 
 
 liower scale. 
 
 Higher scale. 
 
 Lower scale. 
 
 
 s. 
 
 s. 
 
 s. 
 
 s. 
 
 1st year 
 
 27 
 
 25 
 
 8 
 
 6 
 
 2nd year ... 
 
 do 
 
 33 
 
 12 
 
 10 
 
 .‘5rd year 
 
 47 
 
 40 
 
 18 
 
 15 
 
 4th year 
 
 ()5 
 
 55 
 
 25 
 
 18 
 
 The grants were to be given on the higher or lower scale according to the inspector’s report 
 as to the siiitability and thoroughness of the instruction given, the sufficiency and suitability of the 
 staff, and as to the discipline and organisation. The higher grant was to be recommended unless the 
 inspector was unable to report favourably upon the^school under these heads. 
 
 The grant for practical work was only to be given where special provision for such work, as 
 regards premises and equipment, was made to the satisfaction of the Board. 
 
 No grants other than the above were to bo received by a higher elementary school, with the 
 exception of the fee grant. 
 
 Under the Code of 1901 the principal grant and that for practical work were amalgamated, 
 and a regulation made that to obtain recognition as a higher elementary school the premises must 
 be specially equipped for practical instruction. 
 
 No further alteration was made in the grants until the Code of 1904 came into force, when, in 
 addition to the grants above mentioned, the aid grant under Section 10 of the Education Act, 1902, 
 could also be received. 
 
 Under the Code of 1905 revised regulations relating to higher elementary schools were 
 introduced. The organised course of instruction was reduced from four to three years and the 
 requirements as regards buildings, equipment and teaching staff considerably modified. The course 
 could still, however, be extended to four years under certain conditions. 
 
 Under this Code the grants were reduced to the following sums for each unit of average 
 attendance of scholars : — 
 
 First year course ... ... ... ... ... ... 30s. 
 
 Second „ ,, ... ... ... ... ... ... 45s. 
 
 Third „ „ ... ... ... ... ... ... 60s. 
 
 Fourth ,, ,, (when sanctioned) ... ... ... 60.s. 
 
 These grants were in addition to the fee grant (for scholars under 15) and the aid grant. 
 
 The reduction of the grants was explained in the prefatory memorandum to the Code of 1905 
 in the following words : — 
 
 “ The nature of the curriculum of the higher elementary school under the former regulations 
 “ entailed a somewhat elaborate building and equipment, and a teaching staff necessarily more expen- 
 “ sive than that required in schools where laboratory work is less prominent a feature, and the grants 
 “ made for the higher elementary schools hitherto recognised were determined in consideration of the 
 “ great cost of maintaining them on these lines. The curriculum of such a school as it is now desired 
 “ to encourage will be, on the whole, less specialised than that hitherto imposed on higher elementary 
 “ schools, and in so far as it is of a special character will, it is hoped, require neither buildings, equip - 
 “ ments nor teaching staff on the expensive scale rendered inevitable by the old regulations.” 
 
 It is obvious, however, that the reduction of the grants entailed hardship on those authorities 
 who had provided schools on the elaborate scale required by the old regulations ; and although the 
 Code provided that in cases where a school had been established in accordance with the former 
 regulations the old scale of grants would be continued for a period of four years, provided the school 
 continued fully to satisfy the conditions required by those regulations, this provision cannot be 
 regarded as removing that hardship, but only as postponing it. 
 
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 Both the scales of grants set out above are now in force, but the original scale will cease to 
 have effect at the end of July, 1910. 
 
 It has been found in practice that the larger grants given for higher (as compared with 
 ordinary) elementary schools are not nearly sufficient to meet the extra cost of such schools. The 
 “annual grant for a boy in an ordinary school is 22s. and the manual training grant 7s., making a 
 total of 29s. The grant for a first year course in a higher elementary school is only 30s., and the 
 average grant may be estimated at 41s., which is only 12s. more than the grant which can be earned 
 in an ordinary school. The bulk of this additional grant is absorbed in the cost of providing 
 laboratory and other costly accommodation and the extra floor space prescribed by the regulations, 
 12 square feet per scholar being required in higher elementary schools, as against 10 square feet in 
 ordinary elemen^ry schools. There thus remains very little to cover the heavy additional cost of 
 staffing in higher elementary schools, the bulk of which has, therefore, to be met out of the rates. 
 
 There were only 39 schools recognised as higher elementary schools in England and Wales on 
 1st August, 1907 (the latest date for which figures are available), excluding 22 provisionally recognised 
 schools of which the permanent recognition and accommodation had not been determined. 
 
 IX.— SPECIAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 The Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act, 1893, imposed on local education 
 authorities the duty of making suitable provision for the education of blind and deaf children, either 
 by establishing special schools adapted for the education of such children or by contributing towards 
 tbe establishment and maintenance of such schools. The Act also made the attendance of blind 
 children compulsory between the ages of 5 and 16 and that of deaf children between the ages of 
 7 and 16. Where necessary or expedient, the authorities were also to make arrangements for board- 
 ing out of any blind or deaf child in a home near the special school attended. The schools established 
 under the Act could provide for boarding and lodging the children as well as for their education. 
 
 The grants payable to special schools certified under the above Act were fixed by a Minute of 
 the Committee of Council on Education, dated 2iid April, 1894, and no alteration has since been 
 made in the rate of the grants. 
 
 For each blind or deaf child who has attended a certified school for not less than one month 
 during the school year, grants may be allowed for each complete month of attendance as follows : — 
 (ff) At the rate of £3 3s. a year if such child has received with due regularity efficient 
 elementary education other than manual instruction or industrial ti’aining, and his attain- 
 ments are found to be satisfactory, having regard to his necessary disqualifications. 
 
 {h) An additional grant at the rate of £2 2s. a year if such child has received, with 
 due regularity, satisfactory instruction and made satisfactory progress in some course of 
 manual instruction or industrial training approved by the Board. 
 
 Special schools for Mentally Defective children were first provided in 1892. Such schools 
 were allowed by the Education Department to rank, for purposes of grant, as ordinary infant schools. 
 
 The Elementary Education (Defective and Epileptic Children) Act, 1899, empowered (but did 
 not compel) local education authorities to make provision for the education of children who, by reason 
 of mental or physical defect, or severe epilepsy, are incapable of receiving proper benefit from the 
 instruction in the ordinary elementary schools. Such provision, in the case of defective children, 
 could be made either — 
 
 («) By special classes in public elementary schools ; 
 
 if) By boarding out such children in a house conveniently near to a special class or 
 school ; 
 
 (c) By establishing special schools for such children ; or 
 
 {d) By contributing to the establishment and maintenance of such special schools. 
 
 In the case of epileptic children provision could be made by establishing special schools 
 for such children or by contributing to the establishment and maintenance of such special schools. 
 The schools in either case, according to the provisions of the Act, could be either “ day ” or residential 
 schools ; but the Minute of the Committee of Council on Education, dated 26th February, 1900, 
 which prescribed the conditions under which grants would be paid to schools certified under the Act 
 provided that the schools for epileptics must be residential. 
 
 They were at the following rates per annum for each unit of average attendance : — 
 
 (a) For instruction other than manual instruction, £2 10s. 
 
 (fv) For manual instruction for younger children, £1 10s. ; for older children, £2. 
 
 Devised regulations with regard to the grants on account of defective and epileptic children 
 were issued by the Board of Education on the 13th May, 1904. Under these regulations the grant 
 for children in residential schools was altered to £4 4s. per annum in respect of each defective or 
 epileptic child who had attended the school for not less than one month and was efficient in elementary 
 education, including manual instruction or industrial training. 
 
 The above grants are those at present in force. None of the grants payable to ordinary 
 elementary schools are payable to special schools under the above Acts. 
 
 X.— HIGHER EDUCATION. 
 
 The following is a list of the grants paid by the Board of Education in aid of higher education — 
 
 (1) Secondary schools grant. 
 
 (2) Local science and art scholarships. 
 
 (3) Technical institutions grant. 
 
 (4) - Day technical classes grant. 
 
 (5) Schools of art grant. 
 
 (6) Art classes grant. 
 
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 (7) Grants for separate subjects taught in day and evening classes in technical institutions, 
 
 art schools, and other schools for further education. 
 
 (8) Grant to London University. 
 
 (9) University colleges grant. 
 
 (10) Pupil teachers. 
 
 (11) Bursars. 
 
 (12) Training colleges and hostels. 
 
 (13) Training of teachers in domestic subjects. 
 
 Particulars of these grants will be found in Appendix C. 
 
 In addition to the above grants, a portion of the beer and spirit surtaxes (viz., the residue 
 after allowing for the sum of £300,000 allocated to police pension funds) is distributed among the 
 counties and county boroughs and applied to higher education. These surtaxes were instituted by the 
 Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890, and the county and county borough councils were 
 empowered to devote the whole or part of the revenue thus derived to the purpose of technical 
 education. The Education Act, 1902, made the allocation of this revenue to higher education 
 compulsory ; but while this provision increased the funds available for higher education it did so 
 only by the diversion of revenue which had previously gone in relief of general charges on the rates. 
 
 The grants paid by the Board of Education to secondary schools, as such, are of recent origin. 
 They have been gradually evolved from the grants paid under the old provisions of the Directory 
 of the Science and Art Department. These grants were paid in respect of detached science classes 
 which were gradually built up into schools of science. In 1901 two types of secondary schools were 
 recognised for purposes of grant by the Board of Education, known as Division A and Division B. 
 The Division A schools, which comprised the old schools of science provided a course of instruction 
 in science in connection with, and as part of, a course of general education, while in schools 
 of the Division B type science did not form the preponderating element in the instruction given. 
 Grants paid to schools in Division A varied from £3 10s. to £6 in the elementary and from £4 to £9 
 in the advanced course in respect of each student who had made not less than 250 attendances. 
 In the case of Division B schools the grants were as follows : — For the first 100 students a maximum 
 of Is. 6d. per week for each student in a first or second years’ course, and 2s. 2d. in the third or fourth 
 years’ course ; and for students in excess of 100 a maximum of Is. 3d. and Is. lOd. respectively. In 1904 
 the Board recast the regulations so as to bring all secondary schools aided by grants within the general 
 definition of a school offering a general education up to and beyond the age of 16 through a complete 
 graded course of instruction, the object of which should be to develop all the faculties and to form 
 the habit of exercising them. The grants were paid in respect of a four years’ course only, covering the 
 period from 12 or 13 up to 16 or 17 years of age. This course was regarded as a minimum which 
 any secondary school should provide, but the earlier education leading up to it and the later educa- 
 cation beyond it were regarded as forming together with it a single organic system, and the whole 
 curriculum of the school was brought under the review and made subject to the approval of the 
 Board. The grants paid were at the rate of £2, £3, £4 and £5 respectively on scholars in the first, 
 second, third, and fourth years of the coiuse, and an additional grant was paid to schools providing 
 special and advanced instruction in science. Its amount was fixed by the Board, having regard to 
 the circumstances of each school upon the scale which was the practical equivalent of the scale pre- 
 viously applicable to schools of this type up to a maximum which doubled the ordinary grant. In 
 1905 the list of these schools, taking a full special course, was closed, and at the same time the pro- 
 visions already made for a special course with special grants attaching to it in the last two years of the 
 full four years’ course was extended to cover language and literature as well as science. The old 
 grants for science and art day classes in secondary schods were merged in the new grant, and 
 were only continned in those schools formerly receiving the grants which failed to qualify for full 
 recognition. They were, however, entirely discontinued after the year 1905-6. In 1907 the limit 
 of a four years’ course was removed, and the regulations permitted the merging of special courses 
 whether for the whole or for part only of the four years in a curriculum admitting of large variation 
 and flexibility in its content according to the requirements of the area and the aim which the school 
 set before itself, and a uniform grant was established as follows ; — (a) For scholars between the ages 
 of 10 and 12 on the first day of the school year, £2 ; (b) between the ages of 12 and 18, £5. If 
 schools which had previously been in receipt of grant failed to comply with certain conditions as to 
 (a) denominational religious instruction, (b) conscience clause for boarders, (c) free places for scholars 
 from public elementary schools, (d) absence of denominational restrictions for teaching staff and 
 governing body, (e) provision for a representative governing body with control of appointment or 
 dismissal of head master or mistress, the grant in respect of scholars over 12 years of age was to be 
 reduced to £2 10s., unless the local education authority stated that the school was required as part of 
 the scondary school provision for their area, and that the conditions other than the provision of free 
 places might be waived with advantage, when the grants might be paid in full. The regulations for 
 the year 1908-9 are substantially the same as those for the previous year, and no alteration has been 
 made in the rate of the grant. In the prefatory memorandum the following passage occurs 
 
 ‘‘ The Board desire to impress strongly upon school authorities that the increased grants now 
 “ offered to secondary schools are intended not to give relief to local rates, but to increase the 
 efficiency of the schools. The most important means towards this increased efficiency is in most cases 
 “ the provision of a more efficient staff, consisting of teachers better paid, and, accordingly, better 
 “ quaUfied, than has been hitherto the case.” 
 
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 B— GENERAL. 
 
 I— RELATION OF EDUCATION GRANTS AND RATES. 
 
 The relation of Government grants and local rates is dealt with in two ways in the tables 
 accompanying this memorandum and entitled “ Elementary Education — Grants and Rates.” 
 
 The statement on p. 7 of the Tables sets out the total amount of the various Government 
 grants in respect of Elementary Education for each year since 1840 ; the object being to show not 
 only the financial development of the individual grants, but also the varying amounts borne on 
 Imperial Funds and on Local Rates respectively. 
 
 It will he observed from this statement that the total expenditure on elementary education from 
 public funds has grown from about £30,000 in 1841 to £22,000,000 (estimated) in 1908-9, but 
 while this expenditure was, prior to 1870, met ■wholly out of national funds, it has since that date 
 been shared between national and local funds. During this period the proportion contributed by 
 national funds decreased almost without intermission until the year 1890-1, 'when 53J per cent, 
 was contributed by national funds and 46J per cent, out of local rates. The proportion falling on 
 national funds was raised by means of the fee granUof 1891 to 62i per cent., and was brought up 
 to the same ratio again in 1898-9, by means of the voluntary schools grants and the enlarged necessitous 
 school boards grants of 1897. From 1898-9 onwards however, the proportion borne by Govern- 
 ment grants has fallen steadily until the ratio was 54^ per cent, for 1905-6. Moreover, it will be 
 seen from the summary table below that the ratios based on partly estimated figures are 52^ per 
 cent, for 1906-7, 51J per cent, for 1907-8 and 49f per cent, for 1908-9. 
 
 This continual decrease in the proportion contributed from national funds and the corres- 
 ponding increase in the proportion falling on local rates, are no doubt due mainly to tbe fact that 
 the aid grant instituted in 1902 has not been sufficient to meet the additional cost thrown on local 
 rates by the transfer of voluntary schools, and as the standard of those schools is improved the 
 inadequacy of that grant becomes more and more apparent. 
 
 The return on pp. 1-6 of the separate tables compares the Government grants and local rates 
 for elementary education in respect of the several local education authorities in England and Wales 
 in each of the years 1906-7, 1907-8 and 1908-9 (estimated). 
 
 This information was obtained by the courtesy of the various local education authorities, whose 
 co-operation was asked in order to ascertain the latest possible figures relating to a service in which 
 the circumstances are continually changing and in respect of which the latest official figures are for 
 the year 1905-6. 
 
 The information is not wholly complete, but the amounts represent fully 99 per cent, of the 
 total. The result is as follows — 
 
 ELlilMENTARY EDUCATION (Incomplete figures.) 
 
 
 Government Grants. 
 
 Charge on Rates. 
 
 Proportion borne by 
 Government Grants. 
 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.Ci 
 
 Counties : — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Areas under County 
 
 4,449,094 
 
 4,311,728 
 
 4,330,716 
 
 2,698,840 
 
 2,760,375 
 
 3,042,828 
 
 62-2 
 
 61-0 
 
 58-7 
 
 Councils 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Municipal Boroughs 
 
 1,157,024 
 
 1,132,918 
 
 1,134,428 
 
 820,416 
 
 861,554 
 
 924,407 
 
 58-5 
 
 56-8 
 
 55-1 
 
 Urban Districts 
 
 775,439 
 
 792,606 
 
 812,975 
 
 668,048 
 
 708,569 
 
 777,890 
 
 53-7 
 
 52-8 
 
 51-1 
 
 County Boroughs 
 
 3,361,622 
 
 3,300,993 
 
 3,298,831 
 
 2,942,712 
 
 3,083,650 
 
 3,235,621 
 
 53-3 
 
 51-7 
 
 50-5 
 
 London 
 
 1,348,626 
 
 1,316,589 
 
 1,302,556 
 
 2,997,238 
 
 2,922,293 
 
 3,001,651 
 
 31-0 
 
 31-1 
 
 30-3 
 
 
 11,091,805 
 
 10,854,834 
 
 10,879,506 
 
 10,127,254 
 
 10,336,441 
 
 10,982,397 
 
 52-3 
 
 51-2 
 
 49-8 
 
 The figures in respect of the year 1905-6 for authorities who have not sent returns in are : — 
 Government grant, £73,096, rates, £36,846. If these were added to the totals shown in the above 
 table the results would not be materially different. 
 
 The return not onl}' shows the steady fall in the proportion of the total cost of elementary 
 education borne by Government grants at the expense of the local rates in recent years for England 
 and Wales as a whole, but indicates where this fall is most serious. Thus in Manchester the propor- 
 tion of grants decreases from 48'2 per cent, to 43'8 per cent., while the rates increase from 13'6d. to 
 15‘8d. in the £ between 1906-7 and 1908-9 ; in Durham county the proportion of Government 
 grants decreases from 65'3 per cent, to 56'7 per cent., while the rates increase from 9-8d. to 14’2d. in 
 the £ ; and in the non-county boroughs and urban districts the variations are even more extensive. 
 
 From the facts above adduced it will be clear that a considerable increase in the amount of 
 Government grants is necessary, first to bring these grants up to the normal proportion which has 
 prevailed in former years, and, in the second place, to meet expenditure on the increased powers and 
 duties recently cast upon local education authorities. 
 
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 But even if the proportions which prevailed in the nineties between Government grants and 
 local rates were re-established, justice would not be done. The Royal Commission on Local Taxation 
 in dividing local services into two classes, viz., (1) those which are preponderantly national in 
 character, and (2) those which are preponderantly local in character, included education in the former 
 category. They considered that the service of elementary education, although it confers great 
 benefit on the classes which participate in it, does very little to increase the value of rateable 
 property, and is not therefore a service of which the cost should be borne wholly, or indeed mainly, 
 by local funds. The State insists on a certain standard of efidciency being maintained, and, although 
 there can be no doubt that in many ways local administration is advantageous, it seems clear that 
 in view of the national importance of the service, and of the extent to which it is controlled b}'' the 
 State, the bulk of the expenditure upon it s ould come from State funds. 
 
 The inadequac}’' of Government grants in aid of elementary education as a whole is not the 
 only point which requires serious consideration. The distribution of the grant between the various 
 local education authorities leaves much to be desired. Some authorities receive a much larger 
 proportion of their expenditure than others, and the consequence is that very large and serious 
 variations occur in the rate in the £ levied for education purposes. These variations are clearly 
 shown in the detailed table. 
 
 To some extent these rate variations may be due to the fact that non-provided schools are 
 in a considerable majority in some areas and in a minority elsewhere, and the variations due to this 
 cause will probably tend to disappear as time goes on. But the greater variations which are due to the 
 present bases of Government grants are likely to become more accentuated unless some alteration is 
 made. The principal grants, viz., the annual grant and the fee grant, are distributed according to 
 the number of scholars in average attendance, and take no account whatever of the fact that the cost 
 of elementary education per scholar varies very considerably in different localities. A grant per 
 scholar cannot obviously be higher than the actual cost per scholar in that area where the cost of 
 education is lowest, and thereiore such a grant cannot be high enough to meet the present needs of 
 areas where the cost of education is highest. 
 
 At the present time the cost per scholar in different areas varies very considerably, ranging in 
 1905-6 from a minimum of about £2 4s. to a maximum of over £6, inclusive of all items of expen- 
 diture. According to the statement just recently issued by the Board of Education, the expenditure 
 for 1906-7 (excluding administration and loan charges) varied from £2 3s. 5d. to £5 2s. 2d. per child 
 in average attendance. While this variation is partly attributable to local circumstances {e.g. 
 different scales of teachers’ salaries due to variations in cost of living), there can be no doubt that to a 
 considerable extent it is due to the different degrees of efficiency attained in different schools. It is 
 clearly unfair that a body which spends merely the amount necessary to keep its schools up to the 
 minimum standard allowed by the Board of Education should receive the same grant per scholar as 
 a body which is zealous in improving the standard of education in its schools, both as regards accom- 
 modation and instruction, and thereby incurs expenditure per scholar far in excess of that with which 
 the former body is content. The benefit derived from increased efficiency does not necessarily accrue 
 to the locality in which expenditure is incurred ; it is, indeed, a well-recognised fact that the benefit 
 of education accrues to the nation as a whole rather than to particular localities. The expenditure 
 incurred on education, therefore, is incurred on behalf of the nation, and the greater proportion 
 of such cost should be borne by national funds, not by means of a uniform grant per scholar but by 
 grants bearing some relation to the degree of efficiency attained. 
 
 The relation of grants to rates for higher education is not given to the same extent as for 
 elementary education. The following summary is prepared from the returns supplied by the several 
 local education authorities (c ) — 
 
 HIGHER EDUCATION (Incomplete figures). 
 
 Area. 
 
 Government grants. 
 
 Rates. 
 
 Proportion borne by 
 Government grants. 
 
 1906-7. 
 
 1907-8. 
 
 1908-9. 
 
 (est.) 
 
 1906-7. 
 
 1907-8. 
 
 1908-9. 
 
 (est.) 
 
 1906-7. 
 
 1907-8. 
 
 1908-9. 
 
 (est.) 
 
 Counties — 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 Areas under 
 
 (a)273,469 
 
 (0)364,159 
 
 (0)322.049 
 
 484,758 
 
 669,594 
 
 588,797 
 
 59-9 
 
 591 
 
 56-4 
 
 Countv Councils 
 
 (6)449,546 
 
 (6)456,221 
 
 (6)440,720 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Municipal 
 
 (a) 38,479 
 
 (a) 44,147 
 
 (o) 41,196 
 
 36,653 
 
 38,532 
 
 41,060 
 
 51-2 
 
 53-4 
 
 501 
 
 Borough.s 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Urban districts ... 
 
 (a) 8,481 
 
 (o) 8,817 
 
 (o) 7,686 
 
 13,138 
 
 15,031 
 
 14,340 
 
 39-2 
 
 370 
 
 34-9 
 
 County boroughs ... 
 
 (0)312,003 
 
 (0)369,733 
 
 (0)393,247 
 
 493,431 
 
 548,678 
 
 534,474 
 
 50-2 
 
 50-5 
 
 .52-3 
 
 
 (6)184,680 
 
 (6)189,925 
 
 (6)192,147 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 London 
 
 (0)137,392 
 
 (0)180,276 
 
 (0)210,745 
 
 441,103 
 
 365,287 
 
 507,971 
 
 421 
 
 49-9 
 
 43-8 
 
 
 (6)183,140 
 
 (6)182,992 
 
 (6)185,000 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total 
 
 (0)769,824 
 
 (0)967,132 
 
 (0)974,923 
 
 1,469,083 
 
 1,537,122 
 
 1,686,642 
 
 51-9 
 
 53-9 
 
 51-5 
 
 
 (6)817,366 
 
 (6)829,138 
 
 (6)817,867 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Total of (a) and (6)... 
 
 1,587,190 
 
 1,796,270 
 
 1,792,790 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 (a) Board of Education grants. (b) Beer and spirit duties. 
 
 (c) The councils of boroughs and urban districts which are not authorities for elementary education have 
 power to levy rates (not exceeding Id. in the £ per annum) for higher education ; the figures relating to these bodies 
 are not included in the table. 
 
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 These figures, though they cannot be taken as final, indicate, as far as they go, that the pro- 
 portion of cost borne by Government grants is only about the same in the case of higher education 
 as in the case of elementary, although the former is of national importance to an even greater 
 degree than the latter. 
 
 IL— NEW POWERS AND DUTIES. 
 
 In quite recent years new burdens have been added and new powers have been given to local 
 education authorities. The Education Acts, 1902 and 1903, added largely to the cost of education 
 falling on public funds, the principal additional burdens being the transfer of the “ non -provided ” 
 schools to the local authorities and larger powers and duties with regard to higher education. 
 
 Before the passing of those Acts it was difficult for the Board to require from any particular 
 elementary school a standard which could not be enforced in other elementary schools, and so long 
 as the Managers of voluntary schools were in a position which rendered it practically impossible for 
 them to meet any serious enlargement of the Board’s requirements, the Board itself was not in a 
 position to insist on such requirements in the case of other schools. Since the passing of the Acts of 
 1902 and 1903, however, local authorities have been in a position \^hich enables them to place all classes 
 of schools on an equality, and they have in many cases of their own accord anticipated requirements 
 which the Board might have made in consequence of the passing of those Acts. Apart from the question 
 of improving the buildings of non-provided schools, local authorities have expended large sums of 
 money in a supply of necessary equipment and furniture, and in providing a supply of books and 
 apparatus which will bring the schools up to a standard equal to that of the provided schools. The 
 most important change of all, however, has been the improvement that has taken place in the salaries 
 of teachers since a large number of authorities have adopted the principle of placing the teachers of 
 non-provided schools on an equality as regards salary with teachers in provided schools. It is 
 true that the passing of the above Acts was accompanied by the introduction of a special aid grant to 
 assist local authorities in promoting the efficiency of the non-provided schools, but experience has shown 
 that this aid grant has not been sufficient to meet the expenditure involved by the change in the 
 educational system. 
 
 Moreover, the stimulus which has been given to education generally during the past few years, 
 has rendered it necessary for local authorities to incur increased expenditure both in provided schools 
 and non-provided schools in respect both of the methods of teaching the ordinary school subjects, and 
 in respect of special subjects, such as drawing, science, observation lessons and nature study. The issue 
 by the Board of Education of the Suggestions to Teachers in July, 1905, has in many ways stimulated 
 developments of this nature. 
 
 Apart, however, from these general considerations, the successive codes which have been issued 
 during the past few years have imposed upon the local authorities, as a necessary condition of the 
 Board’s grant, very considerable additional expenditure. For instance, the introduction of organised 
 games into the syllabus has rendered it necessary for local authorities not only to provide the necessary 
 apparatus for the playing of games in the elementary schools, but also in some cases for the hire of 
 the necessary playing fields or for the acquisition of .an increased amount of land in connection with sites 
 for elementary schools. 
 
 . The Education (Provision of Meals) Act, 1906, authorised an expenditure under certain con- 
 ditions of a sum not exceeding the amount which would be produced by a ^d. rate. 
 
 The adoption of this Act is, it is true, optional ; but the pressure of public opinion has rendered it 
 necessary for most local authorities to adopt the Act, at any rate, in part. 
 
 The Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907, in addition to imposing the duty of pro- 
 viding for the medical inspection of children and giving the power of attending to the health and 
 physical condition of the children in elementary schools, gave power to education authorities to provide 
 vacation schools, vacation classes, play centres, etc. 
 
 The highly important duty of medical inspection makes a very serious addition to the 
 financial burdens of local authorities. The circular issued by the Board of Education with regard 
 to this matter contemplates that each child will be inspected possibly three or four times during 
 his or her school hfe. Detailed regulations have been laid down by the Board, providing that 
 a schedule shall be filled up, giving the name and address, date of birth, school and personal history 
 of each child, while 24 sub-heads are given in which the results of the medical inspection are to be 
 recorded. This duty involves the appointment of additional medical officers, clerical assistance for 
 keeping the records, etc., and accommodation for the holding of the inspections. 
 
 The terms in which the Code has set out the duties of the local authority as regards medical 
 inspection render it necessary to incur a heavier expenditure than many authorities would of their own 
 accord have incurred in putting into effect the provisions of the Act. The detailed regulations which 
 the Board of Education proposes to enforce by the Code and by the circulars which have accompanied 
 the Code are such as to place a very serious financial responsibility upon all authorities which will have 
 to administer those regulations, and in many areas the utmost difficulty will be found in complying 
 with the requirements unless additional Government grant is provided. 
 
 It has been a generally recognised principle that where an educational requirement has been 
 made which involved considerable additional expense, e.g., the provision of practical science rooms 
 or the teaching of manual training or cookery, a special grant was made by the Board of Education 
 in order to assist in meeting the cost. But in connection with the new duties recently imposed, no 
 additional grants have been given, and they must consequently result in serious additions to the rates. 
 
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 The tendency of recent legislation is, it will be seen, to throw additional powers and duties upon 
 the local authorities. This, in its turn, throws additional duties and responsibilities upon the teachers, 
 who, in the last resort, are charged with the administration of the various duties which are imposed 
 by Parliament. It is generally recognised that the importance of the teaching profession has con- 
 siderably increased during the last ten years, and education authorities have therefore felt themselves 
 bound to improve the financial position of teachers in their service. Throughout the country improved 
 scales of salaries for teachers in elementary schools have been adotped, and in large towns the adoption 
 of these improved scales is forming, and ■will continue to form, a very serious item in the increase in 
 educational expenditure. In the early days of the State grants to education, special steps were taken 
 by the Government to encourage the appointment of an efficient teaching staff, and, in view of the very 
 great difference in cost between a highly paid, trained and certificated staff and an equal number of 
 unqualified teachers, it seems only equitable that the State should take some measures to assist those 
 local authorities which, in the interests of educational efficiency, have voluntarily incurred this great 
 additional expenditure. 
 
 There can be no doubt that the expenditure in connection -with the new duties referred to 
 above must still further increase. Full provision has not yet been made for meeting them, and the 
 present charge on the rates does not show the full effect of these additional burdens. Unless, therefore, 
 additional assistance is granted from the Exchequer further increases in the proportion of expendi- 
 ture borne by rates must inevitably take place. 
 
 Two conditions make an application for additional assistance opportune at the present time — 
 First, the Board of Education Estimates for the current year anticipate a reduction in the govern- 
 ment grants on the present basis of about £400,000 as compared with last year ; Secondly, the 
 additional grants proposed in connection with the Education Bill recently withdrawn amounted to 
 £1,400,000, and the anticipated relief therefrom is still further postponed. There should therefore 
 be a substantial sum at the disposition of the Board of Education to meet the urgent necessities of 
 local education authorities. 
 
 (Signed) B. A. Robinson, 
 
 Chairman of the Council. 
 
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 APPENDIX A. 
 
 PEESENT GEANTS EOE ELEMENTAEY EDUCATION. 
 
 Ordinary elementary schools. 
 
 Average attendance grant (ordinary schools). — 17s. per infant and 22s. per older scholar. 
 If the average attendance of an infants’ division be not greater than 20, the grant is 22s. per 
 infant, instead of 17s. • 
 
 Average attendance grant (higher elementary schools). — ^Varying, according to the year 
 of the course, as follows : — 1st, 30s. ; 2nd, 45s. ; 3rd and 4th, 60s. Schools recognised on or 
 before the 1st August, 1905, may qualify for grant on a higher scale as follows : — 1st, 35s. ; 
 2nd, 47s. ; 3rd, 65s. ; 4th, 90s. This, however, is only a temporary arrangement and will be 
 discontinued after 31st July, 1910. 
 
 Special instruction grants (For instruction to children in public elementary schools other than 
 higher elementary schools) ; — 
 
 Cookery, 4s. per scholar. Gardening (long course), 4s. per scholar. 
 
 Laundry work, 2s. per scholar. Gardening (short course), 2s. per scholar. 
 
 Combined domestic subjects, 7s. 6d. to 15s. Handicraft, 7s. per scholar, 
 per scholar in proportion to the length of Dairy work (long course), 4s. per scholar, 
 the course. Dairy work (short course), 2s. per scholar. 
 
 Small populations grant of £10 to £15, to which may be added an additional grant of £10 under 
 certain conditions. 
 
 Fee Grant, instituted by the Elementary Education Act, 1891, amounting to 10s. per child in 
 average attendance between the ages of three and fifteen, is paid to the managers of public 
 elementary schools who are now charging no fees whatever, or who are charging fees at least 
 10s. less per annum than those charged before the passing of the Elementary Education Act, 
 1891. 
 
 Aid grant, instituted by the Education Acts, 1902-3. 
 
 (а) A sum equal to 4s. per scholar. 
 
 (б) An additional sum of l|d. per scholar in average attendance for every complete 
 2d. per scholar by which the amount which would be produced by a penny rate on the area 
 of the authority falls short of 10s. per scholar. 
 
 S'pecial schools. 
 
 Blind and deaf schools. — (i.) Elementary education grant for each complete month of attendance 
 at the rate of £3 3s. a year for each child who has received efficient elementary education other 
 than manual instruction or industrial training and whose attainments are found to be satis- 
 factory, regard being had to his necessary disquahfications. 
 
 (ii.) Manual instruction or industrial training grant at the rate of £2 2s. a year for each child 
 who has received satisfactory instruction and made satisfactory progress in some approved course 
 of manual instruction or industrial training. 
 
 Defective and epileptic day schools and classes. — {i.) Elementary education grant of 50s. a year 
 for each unit of average attendance. 
 
 (ii.) Manual instruction grant of 30s. or 40s. a year (according to age) for each unit of 
 average attendance. 
 
 Defective and epileptic boarding schools. — A grant of 7s. per month for each child who has 
 received efficient elementary education, including manual instruction or industrial training. 
 
 APPENDIX B. 
 
 STATEMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL CHANGES MADE IN THE “ANNUAL” GRANTS. 
 
 (i.) 
 
 The first Parliamentary grant towards the cost of elementary education in Great Britain, voted 
 in 1833, took the form of a sum of £20,000, in aid of the building of schools. The grant was adminis- 
 tered by the Treasury with the assistance of the two great educational societies by whom elementary 
 education was at that time almost entirely carried on, viz., the British and Foreign School Society 
 and the National Society. Applications for grants were referred to one or other of these societies, 
 who enquired into them and reported to the Treasury on the merits of each case. Before any grant 
 was made a sum equal to half the estimated expenditure was required to be raised by private subscrip- 
 tion and expended. A similar sum was voted yearly down to 1839. 
 
 In 1839 the vote of £20,000 was increased to £30,000. At the same time the Privy Council 
 appointed a Committee on Education, by Order in Council, to administer the grants; and this 
 Committee was empowered to inspect all schools receiving a share of the grants. Before any grant 
 was made the Committee required to be satisfied, inter ^ia, that not less than six square feet of 
 floor space would be provided for each child, and that, for every 10s. to be granted by the Committee, 
 the means of educating one child, at least, should be provided. 
 
 In 1843 grants were made towards the erection or enlargement of teachers’ houses : in aid of 
 the provision of 'furniture and apparatus (to the extent of two-thirds of the expense) ; and for the 
 erection of training colleges. 
 
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 (ii.) 
 
 Thus far the grants had been confined to buildings, furniture and apparatus, but in 1846 grants 
 to trained teachers in augmentation of their salaries were instituted, subject to the managers providing 
 the master with a house rent free and a further salary equal to at least twice the amount of the grant. 
 The scale of these grants was £15 or £20 if the teacher had been trained for one year, £20 or £25 if 
 trained for two years, and £25 or £30 if trained for three years. Two-thirds of these sums were 
 awarded to mistresses. These grants were paid direct to the teachers. 
 
 Grants were also made in aid of the salaries of pupil-teachers and stipendiary monitors as fol- 
 lows : — 
 
 Pupil- Stipendiary 
 
 teacher. monitor. 
 
 At end of 
 
 
 1st year .. 
 2nd „ 
 
 3rd ,, 
 
 4th „ .. 
 
 5th ,, 
 
 £ s. d. 
 10 - - 
 12 10 - 
 15 - - 
 17 10 - 
 20 - - 
 
 £ s. d. 
 6 - - 
 7 10 - 
 10 - - 
 12 10 - 
 
 Annual sums were also paid to the masters or mistresses by whom the pupil-teachers and 
 monitors were instructed, and additional payments were made to them for training the pupil-teacher 
 in garden culture, mechanical arts (for boys), cutting out clothes, cooMng, baking or washing (for girls). 
 
 In this year also the training of teachers was further encouraged by the institution of Queen’s 
 scholarships, carrying an exhibition grant of £20 or £25 per annum, and grants were promised to 
 training colleges, for every student trained therein, of £20 at end of first year, £25 at end of second 
 year and £30 at end of third year, provided the teacher obtained in each of the three years’ residence 
 a certificate of merit from the Committee of Council. 
 
 In 1847 grants were made towards the provision of lesson books and maps for scholars and 
 text-books for teachers. The grants were at the rate not exceeding 2s. (or 2s. 6d. if pupil-teachers were 
 apprenticed) per scholar in average attendance, on condition that two-thirds of the value were sub- 
 scribed by the Managers. The grants were to be renewed in three years on condition that four-fifths 
 were subscribed. 
 
 In 1851 grants for books and maps at the rate of 10s. per student were allowed to training 
 schools, provided the applicants contributed 20s. 
 
 In this year it was decided to set aside a sum of £6,500 per annum for pensions to teachers 
 incapacitated by age or infirmity. 
 
 In 1852 grants were given in respect of the salaries of competent assistant teachers who had 
 completed their apprenticeship but had not been trained in college. 
 
 (iii.) 
 
 Up to 1853 all grants instituted had been given to assist in the building of schools, to supply 
 apparatus, or to provide or augment the stipends of the teaching staff ; but no payments had been 
 made out of Parliamentary grants towards the annual income of the schools. In this year an impor- 
 tant departure was made, it being provided by a Minute of the Council that on condition that a fixed 
 number of attendances was made by a child in an agricultural district or unincorporated town (of not 
 more than 5,000 inhabitants), a capitation grant should be paid to the school funds on its behalf. The 
 amount of this grant varied from 3s. to 6s. a head per annum, and it was conditional, inter alia, on an 
 examination being passed by three-fourths of the children of the school, and on the income from endow- 
 ments, subscriptions and school fees being equal to 14s. per scholar in boys’ schools or 12s. per scholar 
 in girls’ schools. 
 
 In 1856 the capitation grants were extended to all parts of England and Wales (urban as well 
 as rural). 
 
 In 1860 the Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, setting forth the conditions under 
 which grants were given, were consolidated in the form of a Code (now known as the Original Code). 
 The scales of grants for building and for books, maps, etc., were reduced, but the capitation grants 
 remained as established in 1853 and 1856. 
 
 At this time grants were in force under the following heads : — 
 
 (i.) Establishment and equipment of schools — 
 
 {a) Building, enlarging, improving or fitting up schoolrooms and dwellings for 
 teachers. 
 
 (&) Books, maps and diagrams. 
 
 (c) Scientific apparatus. 
 
 (ii.) Maintenance of schools — 
 
 (o) Teachers’ salaries. 
 
 (6) Capitation. 
 
 (iii.) Training of teachers. 
 
 (iv.) Teachers’ pensions. 
 
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 (iv.) 
 
 In 1861 the Koyal Commission appointed in 1858 “ to enquire into the present state of popular 
 education in England” (known as the Duke of Newcastle’s Cpmmission) presented their report and 
 the Code was then revised in the light of the recommendations contained therein. The report of the 
 Committee of Council states that the principal recommendations of the Commissioners which they 
 endeavoured to meet were — 
 
 (1) That grants should be expressly apportioned upon the examination of individual 
 children. 
 
 (2) That means should be taken for reaching more rapidly the places not hitherto aided 
 with the money voted for public education. 
 
 (3) That the administration of the grants should be simplified, not merely as regards the 
 office work of the clerks, but in the much larger and more important sense of withdrawing Her 
 Majesty’s Government from direct financial interference between the managers and teachers of 
 schools. 
 
 Under the Eevised Code, which came into force in 1862, no grants were given for books, maps, 
 diagrams, or scientific apparatus, or for salaries of teachers or pupil-teachers. 
 
 The maintenance grant now provided for in respect of children over six years of age consisted 
 of two parts, viz : — 
 
 (i.) A capitation grant of 4s. per scholar in average attendance. 
 
 (ii.) A grant for each scholar who has made 200 attendances, subject to examination, viz. : — 
 2s. 8d. for each pass in reading, 
 
 2s. 8d. ,, „ writing, 
 
 2s. 8d. ,, ,, arithmetic. 
 
 In this manner the principle of “ payment by results ” was introduced into the system of grants. 
 
 A grant of 6s. 6d. was paid for each scholar under six years of age v/ho had made 200 attend- 
 ances and was suitably instructed. 
 
 In 1867 an additional grant of Is. 4d. for each pass in reading, writing and arithmetic was given, 
 up to a sum of £8 in any one school, under certain conditions. The principal condition was that 
 provision was made for instruction in one or more extra subjects, beyond the ordinary elementary 
 subjects (reading, writing and arithmetic), and that at least one-fifth of the scholars over six years of 
 age passed a satisfactory examination therein. No particular subjects were specified in the regulations, 
 but it was provided that they must be “ specific subjects of secular instruction ” (this was the origin 
 of the term “specific subjects ” by which these extra subjects were afterwards known). 
 
 Additional grants were also given in re.spect of pupil-teachers entering training colleges. 
 
 The Elementary Education Act of 1870 made considerable alterations in the conditions under 
 which grants were made. The estabhshment of school boards, with power to levy rates introduced 
 a new element into educational administration and finance, and the code of regulations had to be revised 
 accordingly. 
 
 The Act abohshed building grants, except such as were applied for before the end of 1870. 
 
 Under the “ New Code,” which came into force in 1871, the capitation grant, based on average 
 attendance, was increased to 6s. per scholar. The examination grant in respect of scholars over 7 
 years of age was fixed at 4s. for each pass in reading, writing or arithmetic. For scholars under 7 years 
 a grant of 8s. a head was given, provided such scholars had made 250 attendances and were present at 
 inspection ; this grant was increased to 10s. if infants were taught as a separate department. 
 
 Separate grants were instituted for passes in “ specific subjects of secular instruction ” beyond 
 reading, writing and arithmetic, by scholars in standards IV., V and VI., the amount being 3s. per 
 pass for not more than two subjects. A wide latitude was allowed in the choice of these extra subjects, 
 the subjects for which the grant would be paid being defined in the Code as follows ; — 
 
 “ Geography, history, grammar, algebra, geometry, natural philosophy, physical geography, 
 the natural sciences, pohtical economy, languages or any definite subject of instructon extend- 
 ing over the classes to be examined in Standards IV., V. and VI., and taught according to a 
 graduated scheme of which the inspector can report that it is well adapted to the capacity 
 of the children and is sufficiently distinct from the ordinary reading-book lessons to justify its 
 description as a ‘ specific subject of instruction.’ ” 
 
 The provisions of the New Code of 1871 allowed for a possible total of 24s. in respect of certain 
 scholars in the upper standards, but the grants earned were subject to reduction if they exceeded in 
 total a rate of 15s. per scholar in average attendance, or if they exceeded the amount derived from 
 school fees, subscriptions and rates 
 
 In 1875 an important innovation was introduced in the institution of grants for “ class subjects ” ; 
 these subjects included grammar, history and geography (which were now removed from the category 
 of “ specific ” subjects) and plain needlework. A grant of 4s. per scholar over 7 years of age in average 
 attendance was paid if the cZasses passed a creditable examination in any two of these subjects ; but 
 the grant was reduced to 2s. if 20 per cent, of the scholars were not in Standard IV. or upwards. At 
 the same time the grant for elementary, or “ standard,” subjects was reduced to 3s. per pass and that 
 for “ specific ” subjects increased to 4s. per pass ; scholars who had passed Standard VI. could take 
 three “specific” subjects (instead of two as previously provided). Another small, but important, 
 innovation was that the fixed capitation grant was reduced from 6s. to 4s. per scholar, an additional 
 Is. was paid if singing formed part of the ordinary curriculum, and a further Is. if the inspector reported 
 
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 tliat the discipline and organisation were satisfactory. The limitation of the total grants to 15s. per 
 scholar was removed. 
 
 Under the Code of 1875 the system of “ payment by results ” reached it fullest development ; 
 while the maximum grant claimable in respect of any scholar amounted to 31s., the portion of this 
 dependent on the results of individual examinations was 21s., a further 4s. was dependent on the results 
 of class examinations, and Is. on the inspector’s report as to discipline and organisation. 
 
 In 1877, under the provisions of the Elementary Education Act of 187G, instead of the limitations 
 previously in force, it was provided that the grants should not exceed the income of the school derived 
 from voluntary contributions, rates, school fees, endowment, and any source whatever other than the 
 Parliamentary grant, unless the grant earned did not exceed 17s. 6d. per scholar, in which case the full 
 grant earned was to be paid. This provision remained in force until 1897, when it was repealed by 
 the Voluntary Schools Act, 1897. 
 
 The Act of 1876 also instituted, the payment by the Government of the school fees for three years 
 of children who had obtained “ honour certificates ” i.e., certificates of proficiency in reading, writing, 
 and elementary arithmetic, and of due attendance at school. These payments were not grants in aid 
 of school expenses, but were in the nature of State scholarships granted to meritorious scholars. The 
 scholarships were only granted during a period of five years, and the payments ceased in 1885. 
 
 (V.) 
 
 In 1882 another important departure occurred in the direction of making the amount of the 
 grant depend on the results of inspection, the “ merit grant ” being introduced in this year. A fixed 
 capitation grant of 4s. 6d. per scholar was allowed, together with a “ merit grant ” of Is., 2s. or 3s., 
 according as the inspector reported the school as “ fair,” “ good ” or “ excellent,” in respect of organisa- 
 tion and discipline, the intelligence employed in instruction, and the general quality of the work, 
 especially in the elementary subjects. Further capitation grants were given of Is. for needlework, and 
 Is. or 6d. for singing. 
 
 The grant for the three elementary subjects, which had since 1862 been paid on the results of 
 examination of the individual pupils, was altered to a capitation grant, the rate of which was fixed 
 at a penny for every unit of the percentage of passes, so that if, say, 75 per cent, of the total 
 possible passes were obtained, the rate of grant would be 6s. 3d. per scholar. 
 
 The grant for “ class ” subjects was reduced from 4s. to Is. or 2s. per scholar, according as the 
 result of examination was “ fair ” or “ good.” 
 
 A somewhat similar scale of grants for infants was also instituted. 
 
 The Code of 1890 marks another important stage in the development of the grants, a considerable 
 step being taken in the direction of the abolition of the system of “ payment by results,” which had 
 been reported on unfavourably by the Royal Comnussion of 1888 (Lord Cross’ Commission). Grants 
 were no longer based on the results of individual examinations in the elementary subjects, but were 
 given on a higher or lower scale dependent on the reports of inspectors. In place of the fixed capita- 
 tion grant, the merit grant, and the grant for examination in elementary subjects, a consohdated 
 grant, known as “ the principal grant,” was established at the rate of 12s. 6d. or 14s. per scholar in 
 average attendance, the higher or lower rate being granted according to the inspector’s reports. In 
 addition there was a grant of Is. or Is. 6d. for discipline and organisation. The grants for needle- 
 work, singing, “ class ” subjects, and “ specific ” subjects remained unaltered. 
 
 In 1892 a further step in the direction of abolishing payment by results was taken, the grant 
 for “ specific subjects ” being based on the inspector’s reports, instead of on the results of individual 
 examinations ; the rate of grant was fixed at 3s. or 2s. per scholar, instead of 4s. per pass. 
 
 (vi.) 
 
 Very little alteration was made in the scheme of grants between 1892 and 1900. The latter 
 date marks another important stage in the history of the grants, a further consohdation of the grants 
 being then made. In place of the “ principal ” grant, and all the other grants except those for special 
 subjects of instruction (which are dealt with in a separate section), a new “ principal ” grant was 
 instituted, at the rate of 22s. or 21s. per scholar, with 17s. or 16s. for infants. Moreover, the inspectors 
 were instructed to recommend the higher grant in every case, unless they were unable to report 
 favourably upon the school. The distinction between “ elementary ” subjects, “ class ” subjects and 
 “ specific ” subjects now disappeared, and a standard course of instruction was laid down by the Code, 
 which course, however, could be modified to a limited extent with the concurrence of the inspector. 
 
 By the Code of 1904 the process of simphfication of the grants was completed, a single grant 
 of 22s. per scholar in average attendance being instituted, subject only to the conditions prescribed 
 by the Education Acts and the Code being fulfilled. In case a school was deficient in any material 
 particular, however, the grant might be reduced to the extent of 3s. per scholar. The grant for 
 infants was fixed at 17s., unless the average attendance did not exceed 20, in which case the full grant 
 of 22s. was given. This system is the one at present in force, but the limit of 3s. per scholar for the 
 possible deduction from the grant has now been removed. 
 
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 APPENDIX C. 
 
 HiaHER EDUCATION— SYSTEM OF GRANTS FOR THE YEAR 1907-8. 
 
 (1) Secondaey Schools. — (a) For scliools complying with the regulations for 1907-8 — 
 
 (i.) A grant in respect of each scholar. 
 
 (а) Between the ages of 10 and 12 on the first day of the school year, £2. 
 
 (б) Between the ages of 12 and 18 on the first day of the school year, £5. 
 
 (ii.) The grant so payable may be augmented by the Board of Education in order to meet 
 part of the expense incurred in respect of special approved educational experiments. 
 
 (iii.) In a small school the Board may make up the grant to £250. 
 
 (iv.) If the grant is less than was received under the regulations of 1906-7, the Board may 
 make up the grant to the last-mentioned sum. (The basis of the 1906-7 grants was as follows z — 
 A grant in respect of each scholar, in the first year of the course, £2 ; second year, £3 ; third 
 year, £4 ; fourth year, £5. In cases of special advanced courses, these grants could be increased 
 up to double these rates). 
 
 (&) For schools which were on the Grant List for 1906-7, but which fail in the year 1907-8 to fulfil one 
 or more of the conditions as to denominational rehgious instruction, conscience clause for boarders, 
 free places for scholars from pubhc elementary schools, absence of denominational restrictions 
 for the teaching staff and governing body, or provision for a representative governing body with 
 control of appointment or dismissal of head master or mistress, but which satisfy the regula- 
 tions in other respects, the Board will pay grants for the year 1907-8, at the rate of £2 and 
 £2 10s. in lieu of £2 and £5 as set out under (a) (i.) but the additional grants under (a) (ii.), 
 (iii.), and (iv.) wiU not be payable. If, however, in the view of the local education authority, 
 such a school is required as part of the secondary school provision for their area, and one or 
 more of these conditions (other than the provision for free places for elementary school children) 
 may be waived with advantage, the Board may pay the grants in full as set out under (a) (i.) 
 to (iv.). 
 
 (c) For schools on the Grant List for 1906-7, an additional grant will be paid so as to make up the 
 grant for that year to a sum not exceeding £5 per scholar, provided certain steps have been 
 taken to comply with the regulations for the year 1907-8. 
 
 (2) Local science and art scholarships. — Grants to aid the continuance for a third year of 
 scholarships sanctioned under the “ secondary schools ” regulations for 1906-7. Amount of grant, 
 £10 per scholar. The managers of the local funds must contribute at least £5 each year in respect 
 of each scholar. This grant will cease after the year 1908. Grants under these regulations are 
 received by the London County Council in respect of certain of its junior county scholars. 
 
 Technical schools, schools of art, and other schools and classes {day and evening) for further education. 
 
 (3) Special grants to “ technical institutions.” — A grant not exceeding £10 for the first 
 year’s course, £12 for the second and £15 for the third and succeeding years’ courses in respect of 
 each student who receives in the year not less than 800 hours of instruction in an approved course ; 
 or of three-fourths these amounts for not less than 600 hours’ instruction ; and for students taking 
 shortened courses proportionate grants for attendances of not less than 400 or 200 hours. In the case 
 of institutions which form part of universities or university colleges these grants may be reconsidered. 
 
 (4) Special grants for “ day technical classes.” — A grant not exceeding £2, except under 
 certain circumstances when it may be increased up to £3 per year in respect of each student. In 
 the case of institutions which form part of universities or university colleges these grants may be 
 reconsidered. 
 
 (5) Special grants to “ schools of art.” — The grant to schools of art are made in two ways. 
 If a school has been efhcient for three years, the grant v^l be equivalent, in the first instance, to the 
 amount received by the school for the year immediately preceding, and will remain the same from 
 year to year, subject to any re-assessment which may be made upon the results of a detailed inspection 
 to be held in general at intervals not exceeding three years. Otherwise the grant will be made on 
 attendances as below (see Generally {a) ). Other grants are made in respect of art pupil teachers 
 (not exceeding £15 per pupil teacher) ; students who have held a free studentship or obtained a local 
 scholarship (£3 per student) ; and students who obtain a Royal Exhibition, or a National Scholar- 
 ship, or who are admitted as students in training to the Royal College of Art (£5 per student). 
 
 (6) Special grants for “ art classes.” — The grants in respect of students of “ art classes,” 
 other than classes in a school of art, are made on attendances as below (see Generally {a) ). 
 
 (7) Generally. — (o) Grants of from 2s. fid. to 3s. fid. in respect of each 20 hours of instruction 
 received by registered students, except for singing and physical exercises, the grants for which are 
 from Is. fid. to 2s. fid. and Is. fid. respectively. This rate may be increased up to 15s. for special 
 instruction under special conditions. 
 
 Or (6) Under certain conditions fixed annual grants in respect of an efficient school based upon 
 the character, efficiency, and volume of the work of the school, and subject to re-assessment every 
 three years. 
 
 Or (c) In the case of an administrative county other than London and under certain conditions, 
 
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 an inclusive grant to the education authority based on its expenditure, regard also being had to the 
 sufficiency and suitability of the general scheme of technical education adopted and to the efficiency 
 with which it has been carried out. 
 
 Universities and university colleges. 
 
 (8) An annual grant of £8,000 to London University. 
 
 (9) The university college grant for Great Britain, excluding Wales, amounts to £100,000. The 
 allocation of the grant is in the hands of the Treasury, who have laid down the principles that no 
 Treasury aid is to be given to a college whose income from endowments, gifts, and subscriptions does 
 not reach £4,000, and whose annual fees do not reach £1,500 ; that among the participating colleges 
 90 per cent, of the grant should be allocated roughly in proportion to local income ; and that the 
 remainder should be reserved partly for special grants towards the provision of books and apparatus 
 and partly for the encouragement of post-graduate work. In respect of the financial year 1906-7 £89,000 
 was allocated, and the participating colleges attached to London University benefited as follows — 
 
 University College £10,000 
 
 Kings’ College £7,800 
 
 Bedford College £4,000 
 
 For 1907-8 and 1908-9, the same annual grants are recommended, together with a grant of 
 £500 to the London School of Economics. 
 
 Preliminary education of elementary school teachers. 
 
 (10) Pupil teachers instructed at centres. — A grant for each pupil teacher who has received 
 
 instTuction for not less than 150 meetings in the year and during that year has been employed 
 and received training in the art of teaching at a public elementary school during not less than 
 100 meetings, nor more than 200 (in certain circumstances these limitations may be varied in 
 a particular year provided they are observed during the period of recognition taken as a whole) 
 of — 
 
 £7 per year for each pupil teacher admitted for an engagement of two years ; 
 
 £4 in the first year and £7 in the second and third years for each pupil teacher admitted 
 for an engagement of three years ; 
 
 £2 in aid of the general travelling and other incidental expenses of the plipil -teachers 
 (This grant does not apply to London)' 
 
 A maximum of £2 per pupil teacher in aid of examination fees where arrangements have 
 been made with a university to hold a leaving examination for pupil teachers. 
 
 Pupil teachers instructed otherwise than at centres. — £2 to £5 under certain similar conditions. 
 Preparatory classes. — A grant of £4 per year for each pupil who has made not less than 80 per 
 cent, of the attendances during the year. This grant will not be paid for any pupil for more 
 than two years. 
 
 (11) Bursars. — A grant of £10, increased by £5 or half the amount of the maintenance allowance 
 
 (whichever may be the less) in the case of bursars receiving maintenance allowances from the 
 local education authority, in respect of each recognised bursar fulfilling the regulations of the 
 Board of Education. This grant is payable for one year only. 
 
 Grants in respect of travelling expenses and leaving examination fees, the same as are pay- 
 able in respect of pupil teachers (see above). 
 
 Special grant for year beginning 1st August, 1907, payable not later than 31st March, 1908, 
 in aid of initial expenses. The amount of the grant will depend upon the total number of 
 bursars for whose recognition apphcation is made, and on the sums at the disposal of the Board 
 of Education for this purpose, but will not be less than £5 or more than £10 on account of each 
 bursar. 
 
 (12) Training Colleges and Hostels — 
 
 Maintenance — Annual grants. 
 
 (i.) To the college, of — 
 
 £53 for each man, £38 for each woman, in residence in a residential college ; 
 
 £13 for each day student at a residential or day college. 
 
 (ii.) To the hostel, of — 
 
 £40 for each man, £25 for each woman, resident in the hostel. 
 
 (hi.) To the student, of — 
 
 £25 to each man, £20 to each woman, day student not resident in a hostel. 
 
 [The total annual grant, however, to any one college or hostel, except during the 
 first five years subsequent to its recognition, cannot be greater than a certain limit 
 entered in the Board’s records — a limit dependant upon the past successes of the 
 institution.] 
 
 Establishment — 
 
 I. Permanent buildings — 
 
 A grant not exceeding 75 per cent, of the capital expenditure incurred in the acquisition 
 of sites or buildings, in the erection of buildings or in the enlargement or improvement 
 of existing buildings. 
 
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 II. Temporary premises — 
 
 £3 per place provided or 75 per cent, of the rent, whichever is the less. No such grant will, 
 as a rule, be paid for more than 5 years. 
 
 (13) Training of teojchers in domestic subjects. 
 
 Cookery. — £7 for each student completing a course for a fuU diploma. 
 
 £2 for each student completing a course for a Kmited diploma. 
 
 Laundry. — £3 for each student completing a course for a diploma. 
 
 Housewifery. — £2 for each student completing a course for a diploma. 
 
 Combined domestic subjects. — ^£12 for each student completing a course for a diploma. 
 
 APPENDIX D. 
 
 Areas which received the special grant on account of high education rates, with the amount of 
 the grants for the year 1906-7 and the charge on rates for elementary education for the 
 year 1905-6. 
 
 Name of area. 
 
 
 
 
 
 pC.B.=County borough. "1 
 
 County in which situate. 
 
 Amount of 
 special grant 
 
 Equivalent 
 rate in the £ of 
 
 Charge on rates 
 for elementary 
 
 1 M.B.=Municipal borough. I 
 Lu.D.=Urban district. J 
 
 (1906-7). 
 
 grant. 
 
 education, 1905-6. 
 
 
 Greater London — 
 
 
 
 
 
 £ 
 
 d. 
 
 d. in the 
 
 West Ham ... 
 
 
 ... C.B. 
 
 — 
 
 
 46,961 
 
 9-7 
 
 31-0 
 
 East Ham 
 
 
 ... M.B. 
 
 Essex 
 
 
 13,201 
 
 7-3 
 
 28-1 
 
 Barking Town 
 
 
 ... G.D. 
 
 Essex 
 
 
 947 
 
 1-6 
 
 20-2 
 
 Edmonton 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 Middlesex 
 
 
 9,622 
 
 11-7 
 
 37 T 
 
 Enfield 
 
 
 
 Middlesex 
 
 
 2,071 
 
 21 
 
 21-0 
 
 Erith ... 
 
 
 
 Kent 
 
 
 1,459 
 
 2-2 
 
 21 1 
 
 Leyton 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 Essex 
 
 
 8,865 
 
 4-8 
 
 24-9 
 
 Tottenham 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 SEddlesex 
 
 
 10,529 
 
 5.6 
 
 30-3 
 
 Walthamstow 
 
 
 
 Essex 
 
 
 14,764 
 
 9-3 
 
 33 T 
 
 Wood Green ... 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 Middlesex 
 
 
 3,021 
 
 3 to 
 
 23-5 
 
 Rest of England — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Halifax 
 
 
 ... C.B; 
 
 — 
 
 
 2,417 
 
 1-3 
 
 20-7 
 
 Norwich 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 — 
 
 
 1,735 
 
 1-0 
 
 19-7 
 
 Oldham 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 — 
 
 
 5,581 
 
 3-0 
 
 21-6 
 
 Reading 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 — 
 
 
 4,825 
 
 2-9 
 
 22s2 
 
 Rotherham ... 
 
 
 • •• 
 
 — 
 
 
 1,381 
 
 1-8 
 
 20-6 
 
 Southampton 
 
 
 • 99 
 
 — 
 
 
 3,453 
 
 1-6 
 
 20-2 
 
 Walsall 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 — 
 
 
 2,878 
 
 3T 
 
 22-3 
 
 West Hartlepool 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 — 
 
 
 1,883 
 
 1-7 
 
 20-5 
 
 Aston Manor 
 
 
 ... M.B. 
 
 Warwickshire 
 
 
 1,625 
 
 1-5 
 
 20-8 
 
 Burslem 
 
 
 • • • 99 
 
 Staffordshire 
 
 
 2,515 
 
 4-7 
 
 24=2 
 
 Carlisle 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 Cumberland 
 
 
 292 
 
 0-3 
 
 18-5 
 
 Hartlepool 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 Durham 
 
 
 728 
 
 2-5 
 
 21-3 
 
 Harwich 
 
 
 • 99 
 
 Essex 
 
 
 337 
 
 2-6 
 
 21-7 
 
 Longton 
 
 
 • • • 99 
 
 Staffordshire 
 
 
 1,039 
 
 2-3 
 
 21-1 
 
 Stockton-on-Tees 
 
 
 99 
 
 Durham 
 
 
 1,602 
 
 2T 
 
 20-8 
 
 Coseley 
 
 
 ... U.D. 
 
 Staffordshire 
 
 
 614 
 
 2.0 
 
 22-0 
 
 Felling 
 
 
 • • • 99 
 
 Durham 
 
 
 1,341 
 
 4-7 
 
 24-6 
 
 Kettering 
 
 
 « • • 99 
 
 Northamptonshire 
 
 
 229 
 
 0-5 
 
 18-6 
 
 Wales — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Swansea 
 
 
 ... C.B. 
 
 — 
 
 
 2,450 
 
 1^4 
 
 21 T 
 
 Pembroke 
 
 
 ... M.B. 
 
 Pembrokeshire ... 
 
 
 192 
 
 11 
 
 19-3 
 
 Aherdare 
 
 
 ... U.D. 
 
 Glamorganshire ... 
 
 
 597 
 
 0-8 
 
 17-8 
 
 Abertillery 
 
 
 • •• 99 
 
 Monmouthshire ... 
 
 
 2,648 
 
 5-4 
 
 25-5 
 
 Barry ... 
 
 
 • •• 99 
 
 Glamorganshire ... 
 
 
 5,507 
 
 5-7 
 
 26-4 
 
 Ebbw Vale ... 
 
 
 • • • 99 
 
 Monmouthshire ... 
 
 
 2,624 
 
 8-0 
 
 30-7 
 
 Llanelly 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 Carmarthenshire ... 
 
 
 1,620 
 
 5-0 
 
 25-9 
 
 Merthyr Tydfil 
 
 
 ... M.B. 
 
 Glamorganshire ... 
 
 
 2,639 
 
 2-3 
 
 24-9 
 
 Mountain Ash 
 
 
 ... U.D. 
 
 Glamorganshire ... 
 
 
 1,574 
 
 2-3 
 
 20-3 
 
 Pontypridd ... 
 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 Glamorganshire ... 
 
 
 2,554 
 
 2-7 
 
 23-2 
 
 Rhondda 
 
 Total 
 
 ... 
 
 ••• 99 
 
 Glamorganshire ... 
 
 ... 
 
 4,621 
 
 172,941 
 
 2-2 
 
 21-2 
 
2-onbon Countie (Touncfl 
 
 2nd Edition. 
 
 ELEMENTARY EDUCATION.— GRANTS AND RATES. 
 
 Tables to accompany Memorandum for the Conference of Local Education 
 Authorities on Education Grants, 11th December, 1908. 
 
 1. JReturn stowing, in respect of the several local education areas in England and Wales, the cost 
 of elementary education borne by Grovernment Grants and by Rates respectively for the years 
 1906-7, 1907-8 and 1908-9 (estimated), together with the proportion of such cost borne by 
 Government Grants. 
 
 Area. 
 
 Government Grants. 
 
 Rates. 
 
 Proportion home 
 by Government 
 Grants. 
 
 Amounts. 
 
 Rate in the £. 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 (est. ) 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est.) 
 
 Areas under County 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Coimcils. 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 p.C; 
 
 p.C. 
 
 p:c; 
 
 England — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Bedfordshire 
 
 37,016 
 
 34,908 
 
 35,047 
 
 20,236 
 
 19,144 
 
 20,195 
 
 
 8| 
 
 9 
 
 64-7 
 
 64-6 
 
 63-5 
 
 Berkshire 
 
 48,690 
 
 47,717 
 
 46,425| 
 
 39,703 
 
 41,688 
 
 43,707 
 
 10 
 
 m 
 
 m 
 
 55T 
 
 53-4 
 
 51-5 
 
 Buckinghamshire 
 
 64,756 
 
 61,373 
 
 63,600 
 
 47,428 
 
 46,815 
 
 53,392 
 
 a 10 
 
 a 9^ 
 
 alO^ 
 
 57-7 
 
 56-7 
 
 54-4 
 
 Cambridgeshire 
 
 29,238 
 
 29,334 
 
 28,500 
 
 12,840 
 
 10,200 
 
 9,675 
 
 7-4 
 
 5-9 
 
 5-6 
 
 69-5 
 
 74-2 
 
 74-7 
 
 Cheshire 
 
 117,889 
 
 120,181 
 
 118,350 
 
 83,611 
 
 83,611 
 
 94,062 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 58-5 
 
 59-0 
 
 55-7 
 
 Cornwall (6) 
 
 94,233 
 
 91,780 
 
 90,000 
 
 38,704 
 
 38,704 
 
 40,850 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 9| 
 
 70-9 
 
 70-3 
 
 68-8 
 
 Scilly Isles 
 
 705 
 
 695 
 
 770 
 
 150 
 
 283 
 
 283 
 
 11 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 82-5 
 
 71-1 
 
 731 
 
 Cumberland 
 
 66,041 
 
 64,234 
 
 57,920 
 
 37,019 
 
 42,847 
 
 37,314 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 8 
 
 64-1 
 
 60-0 
 
 60-8 
 
 Derby 
 
 158,369 
 
 158,832 
 
 157,500 
 
 76,486 
 
 82,576 
 
 85,659 
 
 8-5 
 
 9-0 
 
 9-3 
 
 67-4 
 
 65-8 
 
 64-8 
 
 Devon 
 
 128,426 
 
 119,147 
 
 119,800 
 
 58,509 
 
 43,397^ 
 
 65,095 
 
 7 
 
 5 
 
 n 
 
 68-7 
 
 73-3 
 
 64-8 
 
 Dorset 
 
 50,263 
 
 48,939 
 
 49,650 
 
 24,554 
 
 26,135 
 
 27,474 
 
 
 • « • 
 
 
 67-2 
 
 65-2 
 
 64-4 
 
 Durham 
 
 226,140 
 
 226,927 
 
 228,000 
 
 120,318 
 
 127,863 
 
 174,342 
 
 9-8 
 
 10-4 
 
 14-2 
 
 65-3 
 
 64-0 
 
 56-7 
 
 Ely, Isle of 
 
 22,288 
 
 21,951 
 
 21,000 
 
 9,040 
 
 7,287 
 
 8,200 
 
 6 
 
 n 
 
 5 
 
 71-2 
 
 75*1 
 
 7D9 
 
 Essex 
 
 128,446 
 
 125,110 
 
 125,500 
 
 85,723 
 
 90,014 
 
 96,869 
 
 a 9 
 
 a 9 
 
 a 9 
 
 60-0 
 
 58-2 
 
 56-5 
 
 Gloucester 
 
 95,586 
 
 94,692 
 
 94,774 
 
 58,301 
 
 59,084 
 
 61,482 
 
 a 9 
 
 a 9i 
 
 a 9J 
 
 62-1 
 
 61-6 
 
 60-7 
 
 Hereford 
 
 29,661 
 
 28,518 
 
 28,595 
 
 12,745 
 
 11,550 
 
 11,332 
 
 5 
 
 n 
 
 n 
 
 70-0 
 
 71-2 
 
 71-6 
 
 Hertford (Z>) 
 
 84,557 
 
 84,425 
 
 86,386 
 
 54,903 
 
 62,373 
 
 74,374 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 m 
 
 60-6 
 
 57-5 
 
 53-7 
 
 Huntingdon 
 
 c 19,980 
 
 
 
 c8,Ji55 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 c70-3 
 
 
 
 Kent 
 
 161,805 
 
 151,902 
 
 151,000 
 
 126,926 
 
 128,900 
 
 130,846 
 
 10 
 
 10^ 
 
 lOi- 
 
 56.0 
 
 54.1 
 
 53-6 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 282,857 
 
 270,339 
 
 275,750 
 
 185,471 
 
 188,791 
 
 213,306 
 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 60-4 
 
 58-9 
 
 56-4] 
 
 Leicester 
 
 77,104 
 
 77,349 
 
 75,275 
 
 27,906 
 
 30,252 
 
 33,531 
 
 6 
 
 
 7 
 
 73-4 
 
 71-9 
 
 69-2 
 
 Lincoln — Holland 
 
 19,993 
 
 19,464 
 
 18,965 
 
 11,683 
 
 10,978 
 
 14,289 
 
 
 5 
 
 6f 
 
 63-1 
 
 63-9 
 
 57-0 
 
 Kesteven 
 
 32,610 
 
 29,719 
 
 28,590 
 
 14,887 
 
 15,393 
 
 17,750 
 
 5| 
 
 5| 
 
 n 
 
 68-7 
 
 65-9 
 
 61-7 
 
 Lindsey 
 
 70,784 
 
 66,462 
 
 66,900 
 
 23,971 
 
 22,668 
 
 29,795 
 
 4 
 
 H 
 
 
 74-7 
 
 74-6 
 
 69-2 
 
 Middlesex 
 
 60,311 
 
 58,547 
 
 63,660 
 
 61,839 
 
 70,802 
 
 76,954 
 
 9-9 
 
 10-2 
 
 10-5 
 
 49-4 
 
 45-3 
 
 451 
 
 Norfolk 
 
 109.220 
 
 104,829 
 
 104,350 
 
 52,263 
 
 49,588 
 
 60,430 
 
 9 
 
 
 lOi 
 
 67-6 
 
 67-9 
 
 63-3 
 
 Northampton 
 
 67,958 
 
 67,092 
 
 67,215 
 
 30,424 
 
 30,424 
 
 30,424 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 69-1 
 
 68-8 
 
 68-8 
 
 Northumberland 
 
 95,637 
 
 84,912 
 
 85,500 
 
 68,097 
 
 64,827 
 
 69,143 
 
 
 9A 
 
 lOi 
 
 58^4 
 
 56-7 
 
 65-3 
 
 Nottingham 
 
 89,372 
 
 86,684 
 
 87,807 
 
 50,450 
 
 51,768 
 
 54,154 
 
 10 
 
 10-1 
 
 10-4 
 
 63-9 
 
 62-6 
 
 61-9 
 
 Oxford 
 
 48,260 
 
 46,403 
 
 45,195 
 
 20,392 
 
 22,110 
 
 22,550 
 
 8 
 
 8| 
 
 H 
 
 70-3 
 
 67-7 
 
 66-7 
 
 Peterborough, Soke of 
 
 d 8,166 
 
 d 3,169 
 
 
 
 
 
 5 
 
 5 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 
 Rutland 
 
 6,329 
 
 6,061 
 
 6,110 
 
 2,221 
 
 2,086 
 
 2,680 
 
 3-7 
 
 3-5 
 
 4-5 
 
 74-1 
 
 74-4 
 
 69-5 
 
 Salop 
 
 66,192 
 
 61,756 
 
 61,700 
 
 28,533 
 
 27,053 
 
 27,048 
 
 6 
 
 5^ 
 
 
 69-9 
 
 69-5 
 
 69-5 
 
 Somerset 
 
 113,188 
 
 104,811 
 
 110,250 
 
 46,351 
 
 53,442 
 
 63,313 
 
 5-8 
 
 6-7 
 
 7-6 
 
 70-9 
 
 66-2 
 
 63-5 
 
 Southampton 
 
 95,694 
 
 90,359 
 
 92,550 
 
 56,346 
 
 50,677 
 
 51,731 
 
 
 n 
 
 n 
 
 62-9 
 
 64*1 
 
 641 
 
 Stafford (&) 
 
 161,014 
 
 153,326 
 
 155,205 
 
 100,657 
 
 101,927 
 
 90,364 
 
 all 
 
 al0| 
 
 11 
 
 61-5 
 
 60T 
 
 63-2 
 
 Suffolk, East 
 
 58,527 
 
 56,014 
 
 55,890 
 
 a21,607 
 
 a24,879 
 
 a27,806 
 
 an 
 
 a8^ 
 
 a9i 
 
 73-0 
 
 69-2 
 
 66-8 
 
 Suffolk, West 
 
 40,886 
 
 36,492 
 
 36,500 
 
 al7,585 
 
 al5,826 
 
 a21,102 
 
 alO 
 
 a9 
 
 al2 
 
 69-9 
 
 69-8 
 
 63-4 
 
 Surrey 
 
 103,253 
 
 100,774 
 
 103,280 
 
 146,476 
 
 139,033 
 
 143,139 
 
 an 
 
 a8 
 
 a8 
 
 41-4 
 
 42-0 
 
 41-9 
 
 Sussex, East 
 
 49,058 
 
 47,561 
 
 47,600 
 
 36,795 
 
 39,055 
 
 38,973 
 
 
 8| 
 
 8| 
 
 57T 
 
 54-9 
 
 55-0 
 
 Sussex, West 
 
 38,001 
 
 36,952 
 
 37,122 
 
 26,738 
 
 27,965 
 
 32,625 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 m 
 
 58-7 
 
 56-9 
 
 53-2 
 
 Warwick {h) 
 
 73,749 
 
 76,741 
 
 78,600 
 
 47,515 
 
 56,101 
 
 53,584 
 
 8 
 
 8^ 
 
 8 
 
 60-8 
 
 57-8 
 
 59-5 
 
 Westmorland 
 
 17,040 
 
 16,062 
 
 15,640 
 
 11,319 
 
 10,510 
 
 11,305 
 
 7 
 
 H 
 
 7 
 
 60-1 
 
 60-4 
 
 58-0 
 
 Wight, Isle of 
 
 18,081 
 
 16,940 
 
 16,980 
 
 9,867 
 
 9,096 
 
 9,232 
 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 64-7 
 
 65-1 
 
 64-8 
 
 Wilts. 
 
 71,139 
 
 68,672 
 
 68,856 
 
 32,717 
 
 36,875 
 
 44,190 
 
 n 
 
 8i 
 
 10 
 
 68-5 
 
 651 
 
 60-9 
 
 Worcester 
 
 88,134 
 
 81,508 
 
 86,457 
 
 38,663 
 
 37,998 
 
 44,150 
 
 n 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 69-5 
 
 68-1 
 
 66-2 
 
 Yorks — East Riding ... 
 
 40,063 
 
 39,877 
 
 39,400 
 
 24,240 
 
 26,448 
 
 27,950 
 
 6A 
 
 n 
 
 n 
 
 62-3 
 
 601 
 
 '58-5 
 
 North Riding ... 
 
 87,628 
 
 87,170 
 
 87,000 
 
 49,779 
 
 53,195 
 
 55,030 
 
 V| 
 
 n 
 
 8 
 
 63-8 
 
 621 
 
 ^61 -3 
 
 West Riding 
 
 359,415 
 
 356,742 
 
 353,600 
 
 225,383 
 
 233,373 
 
 281,132 
 
 9-5 
 
 9-8 
 
 11*8 
 
 61-5 
 
 60-5 
 
 55-7 
 
 (o) Excluding Special rates levied in particular parishes.- 
 
 (6) The figures for these counties include those for certain boroughs and urban districts which have relinquished 
 their powers to the Councils of the counties in which they are situate. 
 
 (c) For the year 1905-6, no return for later years having been received} (d) Excluded from totals. 
 
 19118 D 
 
‘22 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rates. 
 
 
 
 
 Proportion borne 
 
 Area. 
 
 
 
 
 Amounts. 
 
 
 Rate in the £. 
 
 Grants. 
 
 
 
 190G-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 (est. ) 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est.) 
 
 - 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 d . 
 
 d . 
 
 d ; 
 
 p . c . 
 
 p . c ; 
 
 p . c ; 
 
 JFales — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anglesey 
 
 15,691 
 
 16,121 
 
 16,500 
 
 8,693 
 
 8,693 
 
 8,693 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 64-4 
 
 65-0 
 
 65*5 
 
 Brecon ... 
 
 1.8,910 
 
 18,992 
 
 18,835 
 
 12,244 
 
 14,513 
 
 12,889 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 10 
 
 60-7 
 
 56*7 
 
 59*4 
 
 Cardigan 
 
 18,861 
 
 18,700 
 
 18,000 
 
 9,485 
 
 8,695 
 
 8,695 
 
 10 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 66-5 
 
 68*3 
 
 67*5 
 
 Carmarthen 
 
 36,744 
 
 36,706 
 
 36,500 
 
 24,493 
 
 22,960 
 
 21,622 
 
 14} 
 
 12} 
 
 11} 
 
 60-0 
 
 61*5 
 
 62*8 
 
 Carnarvon (b) 
 
 43,960 
 
 41,458 
 
 40,500 
 
 31,122 
 
 30,228 
 
 34,017 
 
 12-5 
 
 12-2 
 
 13*2 
 
 58*6 
 
 57*9 
 
 54*4 
 
 Denbigh 
 
 43,544 
 
 40,950 
 
 41,000 
 
 22,727 
 
 21,551 
 
 26,929 
 
 11 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 65-7 
 
 65*5 
 
 60*4 
 
 Flint 
 
 32,316 
 
 29,541 
 
 29,650 
 
 11,082 
 
 13,457 
 
 16,817 
 
 7 
 
 8} 
 
 9} 
 
 74-5 
 
 68*7 
 
 63*8 
 
 Glamorgan 
 
 114,943 
 
 112,575 
 
 114,000 
 
 110,329 
 
 122,842 
 
 137,030 
 
 174 
 
 18 
 
 19 
 
 51-0 
 
 47*8 
 
 45*4 
 
 Merioneth 
 
 16,176 
 
 15,706 
 
 15,800 
 
 14,177 
 
 13,088 
 
 13,391 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 12} 
 
 63-3 
 
 54*6 
 
 54*1 
 
 Monmouth 
 
 73,481 
 
 71,687 
 
 79,212 
 
 a 53,095 
 
 u 55,125 
 
 a 55,125 
 
 al 4 
 
 al 4 
 
 ol 4 
 
 58-1 
 
 56*5 
 
 59*0 
 
 Montgomery 
 
 18,112 
 
 17,320 
 
 17,000 
 
 12,014 
 
 9,154 
 
 9,154 
 
 10-1 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 60-1 
 
 65*4 
 
 65*0 
 
 Pembroke 
 
 23,690 
 
 24,807 
 
 22,000 
 
 9,802 
 
 12,252 
 
 12,252 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 70-7 
 
 67*0 
 
 64*2 
 
 Radnor ... 
 
 7,060 
 
 6,882 
 
 6,955 
 
 2,206 
 
 2,206 
 
 3,393 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 76-2 
 
 75*7 
 
 67*2 
 
 Municipal Boroughs — 
 
 England — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Accrington 
 
 11,992 
 
 12,196 
 
 12,050 
 
 8,270 
 
 8,830 
 
 9,230 
 
 12 
 
 12-5 
 
 12-9 
 
 59-2 
 
 58*0 
 
 56*6 
 
 Ashton-under-Lyne 
 
 12,444 
 
 13,021 
 
 12,075 
 
 5,751 
 
 7,256 
 
 7,501 
 
 8 
 
 9} 
 
 9 }l 
 
 68-4 
 
 64*3 
 
 61*7 
 
 Aston Manor 
 
 29,519 
 
 28,488 
 
 28,050 
 
 19,675 
 
 22,630 
 
 22,514 
 
 19 
 
 22 
 
 22} 
 
 60-0 
 
 55*7 
 
 55*5 
 
 Bacup 
 
 6,957 
 
 6,535 
 
 6,460 
 
 6,000 
 
 6,000 
 
 6,075 
 
 18-7 
 
 18-7 
 
 18-9 
 
 53*7 
 
 52*1 
 
 51*5 
 
 Banbury 
 
 4,292 
 
 4,320 
 
 4,300 
 
 3,740 
 
 3,300 
 
 3,080 
 
 17 
 
 15 
 
 14 
 
 53*4 
 
 56*7 
 
 58*3 
 
 Barnsley 
 
 14,535 
 
 14,781 
 
 15,170 
 
 10,040 
 
 9,700 
 
 10,410 
 
 16 
 
 15} 
 
 16 
 
 59*1 
 
 60?4 
 
 59'=3 
 
 Barnstaple 
 
 4,421 
 
 4,351 
 
 4,400 
 
 2,187 
 
 1,950 
 
 2,413 
 
 10} 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 66*9 
 
 69*1 
 
 64*6 
 
 Batley 
 
 10,384 
 
 8,495 
 
 9,300 
 
 5,000 
 
 6,273 
 
 6,880 
 
 Ilf 
 
 14} 
 
 14} 
 
 67*5 
 
 57*5 
 
 57*5 
 
 Bedford 
 
 9,286 
 
 8,180 
 
 8,220 
 
 7,420 
 
 9,223 
 
 10,134 
 
 9 
 
 lOf 
 
 12 
 
 55*6 
 
 47*0 
 
 44^8 
 
 Berwick-on-Tweed 
 
 4,345 
 
 4,271 
 
 4,175 
 
 3,663 
 
 3,951 
 
 3,669 
 
 14} 
 
 15} 
 
 14} 
 
 54*3 
 
 52-0 
 
 53*2 
 
 Beverley 
 
 4,775 
 
 4,616 
 
 4,700 
 
 1,800 
 
 2,800 
 
 2.200 
 
 9 
 
 14 
 
 11 
 
 72*6 
 
 62*2 
 
 68*1 
 
 Bexhill 
 
 2,404 
 
 2,463 
 
 2,466 
 
 2,200 
 
 2,400 
 
 3,613 
 
 5-9 
 
 5-9 
 
 8-7 
 
 52*2 
 
 50*6 
 
 40*6 
 
 Boston ... 
 
 5,053 
 
 4,622 
 
 5,000 
 
 1,624 
 
 1,865 
 
 2,300 
 
 8 
 
 9} 
 
 11} 
 
 75*7 
 
 71*3 
 
 68*5 
 
 Bridgwater 
 
 5,316 
 
 5,378 
 
 5,400 
 
 2,200 
 
 2,200 
 
 2,400 
 
 9 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 70*7 
 
 71-0 
 
 69*2 
 
 Bridlington 
 
 3,633 
 
 3,684 
 
 3,650 
 
 2,840 
 
 3,885 
 
 3,800 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 56-1 
 
 48-6 
 
 49 0 
 
 Brighouse 
 
 6,209 
 
 6,020 
 
 6,000 
 
 2,970 
 
 3,265 
 
 3,974 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 67*6 
 
 64*5 
 
 60*2 
 
 Bromley ... 
 
 7,960 
 
 8,016 
 
 8,110 
 
 9,500 
 
 10,890 
 
 11,500 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 45*5 
 
 42*4 
 
 41*4 
 
 Burslem 
 
 17,953 
 
 17,579 
 
 17,343 
 
 14,000 
 
 12,000 
 
 11,400 
 
 25} 
 
 22} 
 
 21} 
 
 56*2 
 
 59*4 
 
 60*3 
 
 Bury St. Edmunds 
 
 4,956 
 
 4,904 
 
 4,810 
 
 1,440 
 
 1,680 
 
 1,760 
 
 6 
 
 7 
 
 7} 
 
 77*5 
 
 74*5 
 
 73*2 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 11,976 
 
 11,822 
 
 11,588 
 
 7,465 
 
 8,415 
 
 9,368 
 
 7 
 
 8} 
 
 8| 
 
 61*6 
 
 58*4 
 
 55*3 
 
 Carlisle ... 
 
 17,075 
 
 16,244 
 
 15,700 
 
 16,000 
 
 14,000 
 
 18,000 
 
 18 
 
 16 
 
 22 
 
 51*6 
 
 53*7 
 
 46*6 
 
 Chatham 
 
 10,697 
 
 10,198 
 
 10,072 
 
 10,422 
 
 7,432 
 
 7,850 
 
 174 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 50'*6 
 
 57*9 
 
 56*3 
 
 Chelmsford 
 
 4,091 
 
 4,195 
 
 4,770 
 
 1,725 
 
 2,319 
 
 3,060 
 
 6 
 
 8 
 
 8} 
 
 70*3 
 
 64*6 
 
 60*9 
 
 Cheltenham 
 
 12,266 
 
 11,720 
 
 11,800 
 
 10,989 
 
 11,000 
 
 13,500 
 
 9} 
 
 94 
 
 11} 
 
 52*7 
 
 51*6 
 
 46*6 
 
 Chepping Wycombe ... 
 
 6,068 
 
 5,693 
 
 5,886 
 
 3,600 
 
 3,930 
 
 5,250 
 
 14} 
 
 15| 
 
 21 
 
 62*8 
 
 59*2 
 
 52*9 
 
 Chesterfield 
 
 9,127 
 
 13,155 
 
 5,000 
 
 6,991 
 
 7,134 
 
 9,300 
 
 17} 
 
 21 
 
 23 
 
 56*6 
 
 64*8 
 
 35*0 
 
 Chichester 
 
 3,424 
 
 3,401 
 
 3,528 
 
 1,830 
 
 2,649 
 
 2,680 
 
 9 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 65*2 
 
 56-2 
 
 56*8 
 
 Chorley ... 
 
 9,199 
 
 9,044 
 
 8,979 
 
 3,709 
 
 4,000 
 
 4,852 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 12-5 
 
 71*3 
 
 69*3 
 
 64*9 
 
 Clitheroe 
 
 3,180 
 
 3,112 
 
 3,116 
 
 1,760 
 
 2,006 
 
 2,353 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 13 
 
 64*4 
 
 60*8 
 
 57*0 
 
 Colchester 
 
 12,489 
 
 12,407 
 
 12,948 
 
 11,481 
 
 12,966 
 
 13,747 
 
 17 f 
 
 19} 
 
 20} 
 
 52-1 
 
 48*9 
 
 48*5 
 
 Colne 
 
 6,^8 
 
 6,556 
 
 7,323 
 
 4,710 
 
 4,947 
 
 5,619 
 
 13-4 
 
 13-9 
 
 15=3 
 
 58*5 
 
 57*0 
 
 56*6 
 
 Congleton 
 
 4,599 
 
 3,700 
 
 3,740 
 
 1,000 
 
 1,200 
 
 1,300 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 82*1 
 
 75*5 
 
 74*2 
 
 Crewe ... 
 
 17,047 
 
 17,098 
 
 17,250 
 
 7,444 
 
 10,337 
 
 11,748 
 
 12 
 
 16 
 
 18 
 
 69*6 
 
 62*3 
 
 59*5 
 
 Darlington 
 
 17,386 
 
 17,237 
 
 17,080 
 
 12,477 
 
 13,558 
 
 13,623 
 
 13 } 
 
 14} 
 
 14} 
 
 58*2 
 
 56*0 
 
 55*6 
 
 Darwen 
 
 11,991 
 
 11,948 
 
 11,900 
 
 7,668 
 
 8,330 
 
 10,323 
 
 12-9 
 
 14 
 
 17-2 
 
 61*0 
 
 58*9 
 
 53*6 
 
 Deal 
 
 2,299 
 
 2,332 
 
 2,382 
 
 1,520 
 
 1,705 
 
 1,904 
 
 8} 
 
 9} 
 
 10 
 
 60*2 
 
 57*8 
 
 55*6 
 
 Dewsburv 
 
 8,661 
 
 7,552 
 
 7,740 
 
 9,000 
 
 8,200 
 
 8,600 
 
 16 
 
 14 f 
 
 15} 
 
 49*0 
 
 47*9 
 
 47*3 
 
 Doncaster 
 
 c 9,961 
 
 
 . . . 
 
 c 2,786 
 
 • •• 
 
 ... 
 
 
 
 
 c78-l 
 
 
 
 Dover 
 
 11,533 
 
 11,052 
 
 11,295 
 
 7,934 
 
 9,135 
 
 7,898 
 
 9 f 
 
 11} 
 
 9 f 
 
 59*2 
 
 54*7 
 
 58*9 
 
 Dukinfield 
 
 5,657 
 
 5,656 
 
 5,657 
 
 3,500 
 
 4,300 
 
 4,600 
 
 13} 
 
 16} 
 
 17} 
 
 61*8 
 
 56*8 
 
 55*2 
 
 Durham ... 
 
 5,118 
 
 5,171 
 
 4,955 
 
 2,483 
 
 2,843 
 
 3,060 
 
 8-7 
 
 10 
 
 10-7 
 
 67*3 
 
 64*5 
 
 61.8 
 
 Ealing 
 
 8,563 
 
 9,085 
 
 10,145 
 
 11,754 
 
 14,080 
 
 15,682 
 
 7-3 
 
 7-8 
 
 9 
 
 42*1 
 
 39*2 
 
 39*3 
 
 Eastbourne 
 
 10,254 
 
 10,492 
 
 10,480 
 
 10,594 
 
 9,456 
 
 11,068 
 
 6 f 
 
 6 
 
 6| 
 
 49*2 
 
 52*6 
 
 48*7 
 
 East Hami 
 
 56,216 
 
 61,257 
 
 61,005 
 
 35,100 
 
 35,263 
 
 40,196 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 22 
 
 61*6 
 
 63*5 
 
 60*3 
 
 East Retford 
 
 3,919 
 
 3,907 
 
 3,907 
 
 1,545 
 
 1,538 
 
 1,762 
 
 6 
 
 6} 
 
 7 
 
 71*7 
 
 71*8 
 
 68*9 
 
 (а) Excluding special rates levied on particular parishes; 
 
 (б) Carnarvon — Including the Borough of Bangor, which has relinquished its powers to the County Council, 
 (c) For the year 1905-6, no return for later years having been received. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 Rates. 
 
 
 
 
 Proportion borne 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Area. 
 
 
 
 
 
 Amounts. 
 
 
 Rate in the £. 
 
 Grants. 
 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 (est. ) 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est.) 
 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 Eccles 
 
 12,297 
 
 12,709 
 
 13,127 
 
 6,795 
 
 6,739 
 
 8,303 
 
 10-4 
 
 9-7 
 
 11-3 
 
 64-4 
 
 65-3 
 
 61-3 
 
 Falmouth 
 
 2,989 
 
 2,816 
 
 2,826 
 
 950 
 
 1,100 
 
 1,400 
 
 6 
 
 
 8i 
 
 75-9 
 
 71-9 
 
 66-9 
 
 Faversham 
 
 3,432 
 
 3,587 
 
 3,587 
 
 2,200 
 
 3,000 
 
 3,200 
 
 10-4 
 
 14-1 
 
 15-1 
 
 60-9 
 
 54-5 
 
 52-8 
 
 Folkestone 
 
 6,872 
 
 6,703 
 
 6,555 
 
 10,674 
 
 10,135 
 
 9,591 
 
 10-7 
 
 lO'l 
 
 9-6 
 
 39-2 
 
 39-8 
 
 40*6 
 
 Gillingham 
 
 13,879 
 
 13,360 
 
 13,765 
 
 10,000 
 
 11,356 
 
 11,800 
 
 15-4 
 
 17-5 
 
 18-1 
 
 58-1 
 
 541 
 
 53-8 
 
 Glossop 
 
 6,777 
 
 6,457 
 
 6,359 
 
 3,700 
 
 4,380 
 
 4,380 
 
 lOJ 
 
 12|- 
 
 12i 
 
 64-7 
 
 59-6 
 
 59-2 
 
 Grantham 
 
 5,763 
 
 5,642 
 
 5,850 
 
 2,080 
 
 2,197 
 
 2,626 
 
 
 n 
 
 
 73-5 
 
 71-9 
 
 69-0 
 
 Gravesend 
 
 7,333 
 
 7,229 
 
 7,240 
 
 5,292 
 
 5,905 
 
 6,592 
 
 10-5 
 
 11-5 
 
 12-5 
 
 58-1 
 
 551 
 
 52-3 
 
 Guildford 
 
 6,267 
 
 5,865 
 
 5,754 
 
 6,534 
 
 7,008 
 
 7,663 
 
 14-2 
 
 13-5 
 
 14-6 
 
 48-9 
 
 45-6 
 
 42-9 
 
 Harrogate 
 
 6,764 
 
 6,757 
 
 6,785 
 
 7,014 
 
 8,075 
 
 8,022 
 
 7-1- 
 
 
 
 49-1 
 
 45-6 
 
 45-8 
 
 Hartlepool 
 
 9,321 
 
 9,687 
 
 9,572 
 
 7,500 
 
 7,100 
 
 6,000 
 
 24J 
 
 23 
 
 19 
 
 55 -4 
 
 57-5 
 
 61-5 
 
 Harwich 
 
 4,338 
 
 4,288 
 
 4,218 
 
 3,000 
 
 2,528 
 
 2,850 
 
 23f 
 
 ni 
 
 191 
 
 59-1 
 
 62-9 
 
 59-7 
 
 Haslingden 
 
 4,953 
 
 4,769 
 
 4,658 
 
 2,440 
 
 2,500 
 
 2,800 
 
 
 8i 
 
 9i 
 
 67-0 
 
 65-6 
 
 62-5 
 
 Hemel Hempstead 
 
 c 3,293 
 
 
 
 c 1,774 
 
 ... 
 
 
 
 
 
 c65-0 
 
 
 ... 
 
 Hereford 
 
 6,242 
 
 6,156 
 
 6,288 
 
 4,000 
 
 4,430 
 
 4,968 
 
 8 
 
 H 
 
 
 61-0 
 
 58-2 
 
 55-9 
 
 Heywood 
 
 6,915 
 
 7,150 
 
 7,000 
 
 3,868 
 
 4,440 
 
 4,586 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 m 
 
 64-1 
 
 61-7 
 
 60-4 
 
 Hornsey 
 
 15,722 
 
 14,084 
 
 12,741 
 
 37,261 
 
 38,435 
 
 34,340 
 
 15 
 
 15 
 
 13-3 
 
 29-7 
 
 26-8 
 
 271 
 
 Hove 
 
 5,378 
 
 5,476 
 
 5,642 
 
 11,034 
 
 11,072 
 
 12,172 
 
 
 
 8 
 
 32-8 
 
 331 
 
 31-7 
 
 Hyde 
 
 9,612 
 
 9,273 
 
 9,250 
 
 6,305 
 
 6,305 
 
 7,810 
 
 121 
 
 
 isi 
 
 60-4 
 
 59-5 
 
 54-2 
 
 Ilkestone 
 
 10,508 
 
 9,888 
 
 9,900 
 
 3,900 
 
 3,700 
 
 3,700 
 
 13 
 
 m 
 
 121 
 
 72-9 
 
 72-8 
 
 72-8 
 
 Jarrow ... 
 
 13,721 
 
 13,504 
 
 13,692 
 
 8,290 
 
 8,150 
 
 8,150 
 
 17-9 
 
 17-2 
 
 16-9 
 
 62-3 
 
 62-3 
 
 62-7 
 
 Keighley 
 
 12,745 
 
 12,266 
 
 12,293 
 
 10,493 
 
 11,276 
 
 11,326 
 
 
 1 6- 
 
 15/o 
 
 54-8 
 
 521 
 
 521 
 
 Kendal 
 
 4,975 
 
 4,818 
 
 4,882 
 
 2,138 
 
 1,922 
 
 2,125 
 
 8 
 
 7 
 
 8 
 
 69-9 
 
 71-5 
 
 69-7 
 
 Kidderminster ... 
 
 8,408 
 
 8,384 
 
 8,350 
 
 4,900 
 
 5,000 
 
 5,200 
 
 13-3 
 
 13-6 
 
 14 
 
 63-2 
 
 62-6 
 
 61-6 
 
 King’s Lynn 
 
 6,557 
 
 6,294 
 
 6,090 
 
 2,350 
 
 2,200 
 
 3,235 
 
 n 
 
 6| 
 
 10 
 
 73-6 
 
 741 
 
 65-4 
 
 Kingston-upon-Thames 
 
 10,062 
 
 9,739 
 
 9,968 
 
 7,050 
 
 9,610 
 
 11,700 
 
 *73 
 
 ♦ 4 
 
 m 
 
 13 
 
 58-8 
 
 50-3 
 
 46 0 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 12,981 
 
 12,439 
 
 12,948 
 
 8,872 
 
 9,425 
 
 10,115 
 
 10-8 
 
 11-5 
 
 .12-2 
 
 59-4 
 
 56-9 
 
 561 
 
 Leigh 
 
 14,424 
 
 13,935 
 
 13,696 
 
 5,999 
 
 5,993 
 
 6,850 
 
 
 8^ 
 
 9 
 
 70-6 
 
 69-9 
 
 66-7 
 
 Lewes 
 
 3,075 
 
 2,896 
 
 2,935 
 
 962 
 
 1,134 
 
 1,220 
 
 4 
 
 4-7 
 
 5-1 
 
 76-2 
 
 71-9 
 
 70-6 
 
 Long ton 
 
 16,522 
 
 15,703 
 
 15,250 
 
 10,000 
 
 8,000 
 
 8,250 
 
 21|- 
 
 m 
 
 18 
 
 62-3 
 
 66-2 
 
 64-9 
 
 Loughborough 
 
 7,829 
 
 7,825 
 
 7,720 
 
 4,888 
 
 5,028 
 
 5,359 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 13* 
 
 61-6 
 
 60-9 
 
 59-0 
 
 Lowestoft 
 
 10,233 
 
 10,193 
 
 10,300 
 
 6,927 
 
 8,000 
 
 8,400 
 
 13 
 
 15 
 
 15* 
 
 59-6 
 
 56-0 
 
 551 
 
 Luton 
 
 13,587 
 
 13,604 
 
 14,000 
 
 8,295 
 
 9,450 
 
 9,250 
 
 11*3 
 
 12-3 
 
 11-6 
 
 62-1 
 
 59-0 
 
 60-2 
 
 Macclesfield 
 
 10,457 
 
 9,826 
 
 9,743 
 
 5,320 
 
 5,320 
 
 5,700 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 141 
 
 66-3 
 
 64-9 
 
 631 
 
 Maidenhead 
 
 4,815 
 
 4,305 
 
 4,344 
 
 3,400 
 
 3,553 
 
 4,593 
 
 9^ 
 
 10 
 
 
 58-6 
 
 54-8 
 
 48-6 
 
 Maidstone 
 
 9,770 
 
 9,250 
 
 9,350 
 
 7,450 
 
 5,800 
 
 7,100 
 
 10-2 
 
 8 
 
 9-8 
 
 56-7 
 
 61-5 
 
 56-8 
 
 Mansfield 
 
 9,497 
 
 9,978 
 
 10,150 
 
 5,000 
 
 5,700 
 
 6,000 
 
 15-1 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 65-5 
 
 63-7 
 
 62-9 
 
 Margate 
 
 4,867 
 
 4,941 
 
 4,926 
 
 4,641 
 
 5,720 
 
 5,431 
 
 6-9 
 
 8.3 
 
 7-7 
 
 51.2 
 
 46.3 
 
 47.5 
 
 Middleton 
 
 8,134 
 
 6,603 
 
 7,630 
 
 3,864 
 
 3,881 
 
 4,950 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 14 
 
 67-8 
 
 63-0 
 
 60-7 
 
 Morecambe 
 
 3,074 
 
 3,126 
 
 3,237 
 
 3,644 
 
 3,816 
 
 3,869 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 45-8 
 
 45-0 
 
 45-5 
 
 Morley 
 
 7,395 
 
 7,162 
 
 7,159 
 
 7,205 
 
 7,095 
 
 7,002 
 
 20 
 
 19i 
 
 19i 
 
 50-7 
 
 50=2 
 
 50-6 
 
 Mossley 
 
 2,987 
 
 3,002 
 
 2,950 
 
 1,640 
 
 1,300 
 
 600 
 
 7 
 
 52- 
 
 
 64-6 
 
 69-8 
 
 831 
 
 Nelson 
 
 10,864 
 
 10,794 
 
 11,590 
 
 7,300 
 
 7,324 
 
 7,820 
 
 12-9 
 
 12-7 
 
 13 
 
 59-8 
 
 59-6 
 
 59-7 
 
 Newark 
 
 5,254 
 
 5,104 
 
 5,110 
 
 2,416 
 
 2,861 
 
 3,863 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 13* 
 
 68-5 
 
 641 
 
 57-0 
 
 Newbury 
 
 3,552 
 
 3,585 
 
 3,434 
 
 1,100 
 
 1,440 
 
 2,028 
 
 7 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 76-4 
 
 71-3 
 
 62-9 
 
 N ewcastle-under-1 3 une 
 
 6,700 
 
 6,419 
 
 6,300 
 
 2,940 
 
 3,125 
 
 2,975 
 
 12 
 
 
 12 
 
 69-5 
 
 67-2 
 
 67-9 
 
 Newport (Isle of Wight) 
 
 3,390 
 
 3,402 
 
 3,450 
 
 2,460 
 
 2,847 
 
 2,800 
 
 ui 
 
 16i 
 
 16* 
 
 58-0 
 
 54-4 
 
 55-2 
 
 New Windsor 
 
 3,021 
 
 3,064 
 
 3,148 
 
 2,450 
 
 2,450 
 
 2,560 
 
 n 
 
 u 
 
 7| 
 
 55-2 
 
 55-6 
 
 551 
 
 Nuneaton 
 
 13,429 
 
 9,033 
 
 11,429 
 
 6,450 
 
 6,325 
 
 7,296 
 
 121 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 67-6 
 
 58-8 
 
 61-0 
 
 Ossett 
 
 3,614 
 
 3,533 
 
 3,534 
 
 1,818 
 
 2,058 
 
 2,494 
 
 9 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 66-5 
 
 63-2 
 
 58 -6« 
 
 Penzance 
 
 3,803 
 
 3,659 
 
 3,634 
 
 1,730 
 
 1,900 
 
 2,251 
 
 
 8i 
 
 9| 
 
 68-8 
 
 66-0 
 
 61-8 
 
 Peterborough 
 
 12,394 
 
 10,026 
 
 11,123 
 
 4,562 
 
 4,748 
 
 5,353 
 
 7-2 
 
 7-6 
 
 8-4 
 
 73-1 
 
 67-9 
 
 67-5 
 
 Pontefract 
 
 4,548 
 
 4,522 
 
 4,520 
 
 1,000 
 
 1,100 
 
 1,500 
 
 5 
 
 Si 
 
 7i 
 
 82-0 
 
 80-4 
 
 751 
 
 Poole 
 
 9,915 
 
 9,893 
 
 10,097 
 
 4,847 
 
 5,802 
 
 4,441 
 
 8 
 
 8| 
 
 6i 
 
 67-1 
 
 63-0 
 
 69-4 
 
 Pudsey 
 
 4,083 
 
 3,924 
 
 4,019 
 
 3,000 
 
 3,000 
 
 3,000 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 57-6 
 
 56-7 
 
 57-3 
 
 Ramsgate 
 
 7,237 
 
 7,268 
 
 7,410 
 
 3,926 
 
 4,228 
 
 5,134 
 
 
 7 
 
 8* 
 
 64-8 
 
 63-2 
 
 591 
 
 Rawtenstall 
 
 8,826 
 
 8,546 
 
 8,390 
 
 6,370 
 
 6,400 
 
 7,100 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 15* 
 
 581 
 
 57-2 
 
 54-2 
 
 Reigate 
 
 5,899 
 
 6,130 
 
 6,000 
 
 5,612 
 
 5,383 
 
 6,720 
 
 6 
 
 5| 
 
 7 
 
 70-6 
 
 68-3 
 
 68-2 
 
 Richmond 
 
 6,978 
 
 6,773 
 
 6,650 
 
 6,665 
 
 7,946 
 
 8,220 
 
 H 
 
 6f 
 
 6i 
 
 51 1 
 
 46-0 
 
 44-7 
 
 Rochester 
 
 9,878 
 
 9,344 
 
 9,050 
 
 8,100 
 
 8,000 
 
 8,800 
 
 14 
 
 13| 
 
 15 
 
 55-0 
 
 53-9 
 
 50-7 
 
 Royal Leamington Spa 
 
 6,749 
 
 6,737 
 
 6,724 
 
 7,359 
 
 7,003 
 
 6,843 
 
 9-4 
 
 8-9 
 
 8-6 
 
 47-7 
 
 49-0 
 
 49-5 
 
 Ryde 
 
 3,137 
 
 3,142 
 
 3,138 
 
 3,538 
 
 3,280 
 
 3,423 
 
 11-4 
 
 10-6 
 
 11 
 
 47-0 
 
 48-9 
 
 47-8 
 
 Salisbury 
 
 5,865 
 
 5,842 
 
 5,800 
 
 4,661 
 
 4,605 
 
 4,700 
 
 Hi 
 
 11 
 
 11 
 
 55-7 
 
 55-9 
 
 55-2 
 
 Scarborough ... ' 
 
 10,621 
 
 10,426 
 
 10,122 
 
 11,457 
 
 11,497 
 
 11,438 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 12i 
 
 481 
 
 47-6 
 
 47-0 
 
 Shrewsbury 
 
 8,146 
 
 9,540 
 
 9,500 
 
 5,000 
 
 6,400 
 
 6,400 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 12 
 
 62-0 
 
 59-9 
 
 59-8 
 
 (f) For the year 1905-6, no return for later years having been received. 
 
 19118 D 2 
 
24 
 
 Area. 
 
 Government Grants. 
 
 Bates. 
 
 Proportion borne 
 by Government 
 Grants. 
 
 Amounts. 
 
 Bate in the £. 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est.) 
 
 1906-i 
 
 1907-i 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-^ 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est.) 
 
 
 £ 
 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 Southend-on-Sea 
 
 . 9,906 
 
 [10,367 
 
 10,860 
 
 10,000 
 
 12,250 
 
 14,635 
 
 8*3 
 
 9 
 
 10-7 
 
 49-8 
 
 45-9 
 
 42-6 
 
 Stalyb ridge 
 
 . 7,465 
 
 7,256 
 
 7,190 
 
 3,166 
 
 3,518 
 
 3,704 
 
 7| 
 
 8| 
 
 8f 
 
 70-2 
 
 67-3 
 
 66-0 
 
 Stockton-on-Tees 
 
 c 17,702 
 
 
 
 c 15,629 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 c 53' j 
 
 
 
 Stoke-upon-Trent 
 
 13,384 
 
 10,518 
 
 11,000 
 
 5,785 
 
 6,400 
 
 6,400 
 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 13 
 
 69-9 
 
 62-2 
 
 63-2 
 
 Sutton Coldfield 
 
 . c 3,230 
 
 
 
 c 223 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 c 90-1 
 
 y 
 
 
 Swindon 
 
 . 18,976 
 
 19,356 
 
 20,200 
 
 15,582 
 
 16,014 
 
 16,184 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 54-9 
 
 54-7 
 
 55-5 
 
 Taunton 
 
 . 6,335 
 
 6,316 
 
 6,356 
 
 3,080 
 
 3,600 
 
 4,920 
 
 8 
 
 9 
 
 12 
 
 67-2 
 
 63-7 
 
 56-5 
 
 Tiverton 
 
 . 2,867 
 
 2,815 
 
 2,772 
 
 1,700 
 
 1,800 
 
 1,800 
 
 8^ 
 
 8| 
 
 8i 
 
 62-8 
 
 61-0 
 
 60-6 
 
 Todmorden 
 
 7,128 
 
 6,786 
 
 6,800 
 
 6,510 
 
 6,975 
 
 6,975 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 52-3 
 
 49-3 
 
 49-4 
 
 Torquay 
 
 . 7,097 
 
 7,880 
 
 7,211 
 
 7,443 
 
 7,481 
 
 6,363 
 
 10^ 
 
 lOi 
 
 9 
 
 48-8 
 
 51-3 
 
 531 
 
 Tunbridge Wells 
 
 . 8,211 
 
 8,128 
 
 8,100 
 
 6,965 
 
 6,677 
 
 7,725 
 
 5-9 
 
 5*8 
 
 6-7 
 
 54T 
 
 54-9 
 
 51*2 
 
 Wakefield 
 
 12,987 
 
 12,569 
 
 12,510 
 
 8,150 
 
 8,200 
 
 9,000 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 11 
 
 61-5 
 
 60-5 
 
 58-2 
 
 Wallsend 
 
 9,454 
 
 9,705 
 
 9,695 
 
 9,000 
 
 6,500 
 
 8,000 
 
 20f 
 
 15 
 
 16M 
 
 51-2 
 
 59-9 
 
 54-8 
 
 Wednesbury 
 
 10,651 
 
 9,947 
 
 10,000 
 
 5,500 
 
 5,500 
 
 5,500 
 
 14-6 
 
 14-6 
 
 14 
 
 65-9 
 
 64-4 
 
 64-5 
 
 Wenlock 
 
 6,043 
 
 5,596 
 
 5,558 
 
 1,932 
 
 1,925 
 
 1,800 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 n 
 
 75-8 
 
 74-4 
 
 75-5 
 
 Weymouth 
 
 c 5,4S4 
 
 
 
 c 2,825 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 c 66 C 
 
 
 
 Whitehaven 
 
 6,442 
 
 6,211 
 
 6,393 
 
 1,073 
 
 1,869 
 
 2,320 
 
 H 
 
 6 
 
 n 
 
 85-7 
 
 76-9 
 
 73-4 
 
 Widnes ... 
 
 11,591 
 
 11,579 
 
 11,177 
 
 8,876 
 
 8,683 
 
 9,437 
 
 14^ 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 
 56-6 
 
 57*2 
 
 54-2 
 
 Wimbledon 
 
 10,423 
 
 10,856 
 
 11,024 
 
 12,490 
 
 15,948 
 
 17,850 
 
 8 
 
 9i 
 
 10^ 
 
 45-5 
 
 40-5 
 
 38-2 
 
 Winchester 
 
 5,534 
 
 5,183 
 
 5,338 
 
 2,991 
 
 3,118 
 
 3,435 
 
 5| 
 
 6 
 
 H 
 
 64-9 
 
 62-4 
 
 60-8 
 
 Workington 
 
 10,197 
 
 10,359 
 
 10,243 
 
 3,732 
 
 3,732 
 
 4,476 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 12 
 
 73-2 
 
 73-5 
 
 69-6 
 
 Worthing 
 
 5,703 
 
 5,911 
 
 5,950 
 
 4,400 
 
 5,150 
 
 6,250 
 
 6| 
 
 7i 
 
 8i 
 
 56-4 
 
 53-4 
 
 48-8 
 
 Yeovil 
 
 3,682 
 
 3,707 
 
 3,753 
 
 3,050 
 
 2,950 
 
 2,800 
 
 13-2 
 
 13--3 
 
 12-4 
 
 54-7 
 
 55-7 
 
 57-4 
 
 Wales — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Carmarthen 
 
 3,109 
 
 2,941 
 
 2,800 
 
 1,800 
 
 2,586 
 
 2,300 
 
 12-8 
 
 18 
 
 16 
 
 63-3 
 
 53-2 
 
 54-9 
 
 Merthyr Tydfil 
 
 31,398 
 
 27,683 
 
 29,500 
 
 22,816 
 
 23,000 
 
 24,500 
 
 19^ 
 
 20i 
 
 22 
 
 57-9 
 
 54-6 
 
 54-6 
 
 Neath 
 
 4,974 
 
 4,915 
 
 4,975 
 
 3,000 
 
 3,000 
 
 3,300 
 
 14 
 
 14i 
 
 16i 
 
 62-4 
 
 621 
 
 601 
 
 Pembroke 
 
 5,738 
 
 5,337 
 
 5,362 
 
 3,500 
 
 3,350 
 
 3,250 
 
 19 
 
 18 
 
 17 
 
 62 T 
 
 61-4 
 
 62-2 
 
 Wrexham 
 
 5,442 
 
 5,464 
 
 5,660 
 
 3,168 
 
 4,087 
 
 4,300 
 
 11 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 63-2 
 
 57-2 
 
 56-8 
 
 Urban Districts^ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 England — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 p.c; 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 Acton 
 
 13,455 
 
 14,565 
 
 15,027 
 
 20,700 
 
 22,400 
 
 25,290 
 
 15,5 
 
 15.8 
 
 17.8 
 
 39-4 
 
 39-4 
 
 37-2 
 
 Aldershot 
 
 5,265 
 
 5,204 
 
 5,300 
 
 6,200 
 
 5,300 
 
 6,000 
 
 
 
 
 45-9 
 
 49-5 
 
 46-9 
 
 Barking Town ... 
 
 12,166 
 
 11,469 
 
 11,800 
 
 11,135 
 
 11,800 
 
 11,550 
 
 17 4 
 
 isT 
 
 17-2 
 
 52-2 
 
 49-3 
 
 49-3 
 
 Beckenham 
 
 4,759 
 
 5,006 
 
 5,357 
 
 9,394 
 
 10,387 
 
 11,497 
 
 8-5 
 
 9-4 
 
 10-3 
 
 33-6 
 
 32-5 
 
 31-8 
 
 Bilston 
 
 9,467 
 
 9,122 
 
 9,420 
 
 5,824 
 
 6,000 
 
 6,750 
 
 20-7 
 
 21-3 
 
 23-9 
 
 61-9 
 
 60-3 
 
 58-2 
 
 Blyth (&)... 
 
 
 8,903 
 
 7,446 
 
 
 
 7,000 
 
 
 
 17-7 
 
 
 
 51-5 
 
 Cannock ... 
 
 9,913 
 
 9,851 
 
 9,900 
 
 4,335 
 
 3 , ’591 
 
 4,700 
 
 13 
 
 16 
 
 13 
 
 69-6 
 
 73-3 
 
 67-8 
 
 Chadderton 
 
 9,300 
 
 8,994 
 
 9,000 
 
 6,200 
 
 8,200 
 
 8,200 
 
 12-3 
 
 16-3 
 
 16-3 
 
 60-0 
 
 52-3 
 
 52-3 
 
 Chiswick 
 
 7,413 
 
 7,214 
 
 7,230 
 
 12,665 
 
 12,800 
 
 13,200 
 
 13 
 
 12 i 
 
 124 
 
 36*9 
 
 36--0 
 
 35-4 
 
 Coseley 
 
 8,321 
 
 8,714 
 
 8,512 
 
 5,500 
 
 5,172 
 
 4,808 
 
 23| 
 
 22 J 
 
 20 | 
 
 60-2 
 
 62-8 
 
 63*9 
 
 Edmonton 
 
 38,365 
 
 30,168 
 
 34,989 
 
 17,965 
 
 17,735 
 
 22,000 
 
 22 | 
 
 22 ^ 
 
 28| 
 
 68 T 
 
 63-0 
 
 61-4 
 
 Enfield ... 
 
 19,843 
 
 21,661 
 
 22,900 
 
 19,900 
 
 20,500 
 
 21,650 
 
 21 
 
 21 
 
 21 i 
 
 49-9 
 
 51-4 
 
 61-4 
 
 Erith 
 
 11,756 
 
 12,281 
 
 12,002 
 
 13,760 
 
 13,909 
 
 12,710 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 204 
 
 46-1 
 
 46-9 
 
 48-6 
 
 Farnworth 
 
 7,890 
 
 7,196 
 
 7,090 
 
 3,675 
 
 4,881 
 
 5,195 
 
 
 12 i 
 
 13i 
 
 68-2 
 
 59-6 
 
 57-7 
 
 Felling 
 
 10,965 
 
 9,574 
 
 9,855 
 
 7,000 
 
 5,680 
 
 6,400 
 
 20 
 
 17 
 
 18 
 
 61-0 
 
 62-8 
 
 60-6 
 
 Fenton ... 
 
 8,484 
 
 8,906 
 
 8,933 
 
 4,524 
 
 4,394 
 
 4,672 
 
 13 
 
 12-3 
 
 13 
 
 65-2 
 
 66-9 
 
 65-7 
 
 Finchley 
 
 6,277 
 
 6,593 
 
 7,200 
 
 10,634 
 
 12,256 
 
 12,733 
 
 m 
 
 14i 
 
 m 
 
 371 
 
 35-0 
 
 361 
 
 Gorton ... 
 
 7,953 
 
 7,527 
 
 7,530 
 
 6,385 
 
 6,109 
 
 5,730 
 
 
 15.3 
 
 14 
 
 55-5 
 
 55-2 
 
 56-8 
 
 Gosport and Alverstoke 
 
 7,752 
 
 7,271 
 
 7,107 
 
 2,760 
 
 3,050 
 
 3,600 
 
 6-6 
 
 6-1 
 
 7-2 
 
 73-8 
 
 70-4 
 
 66-4 
 
 Handsworth 
 
 13,888 
 
 13,638 
 
 14,827 
 
 15,675 
 
 19,080 
 
 23,430 
 
 15 
 
 18 
 
 22 
 
 47-0 
 
 41-8 
 
 38-8 
 
 Hebburn 
 
 8,403 
 
 8,025 
 
 8,150 
 
 5,739 
 
 6,558 
 
 6,666 
 
 18-6 
 
 20-2 
 
 20-6 
 
 59-4 
 
 55-0 
 
 55-0 
 
 Hendon ... 
 
 7,950 
 
 8,272 
 
 8,397 
 
 11,018 
 
 11,299 
 
 11,830 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 41-9 
 
 42-3 
 
 41-5 
 
 Heston and Isleworth ... 
 
 10,366 
 
 11,557 
 
 10,940 
 
 10,000 
 
 10,800 
 
 9,800 
 
 15 
 
 14i 
 
 13i 
 
 50-9 
 
 51-7 
 
 52-7 
 
 Hindley ... 
 
 11,514 
 
 10,931 
 
 9,971 
 
 4,150 
 
 4,650 
 
 4,600 
 
 Hi 
 
 12 | 
 
 12 f 
 
 73-5 
 
 70-2 
 
 68-4 
 
 Ilford 
 
 17,525 
 
 18,865 
 
 19,115 
 
 23,500 
 
 27,000 
 
 28,000 
 
 16i 
 
 18 
 
 18| 
 
 42-7 
 
 411 
 
 40-6 
 
 Ince-in-Makerfield 
 
 6,826 
 
 7,355 
 
 7,735 
 
 3,920 
 
 4,675 
 
 4,710 
 
 10-2 
 
 12-1 
 
 11 -8 
 
 63-5 
 
 611 
 
 62-2 
 
 Kettering 
 
 11,634 
 
 11,583 
 
 11,483 
 
 9,582 
 
 9,843 
 
 11,068 
 
 19f 
 
 20 f 
 
 283^2 
 
 64-8 
 
 641 
 
 60-9 
 
 King’s Norton and 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Northfield 
 
 16,284 
 
 17,234 
 
 18,187 
 
 13,570 
 
 15,370 
 
 16,469 
 
 lOJ 
 
 lOi 
 
 10 | 
 
 54-6 
 
 62-9 
 
 62-6 
 
 Leyton 
 
 44,738 
 
 45,641 
 
 45,641a 
 
 42,500 
 
 44,000 
 
 41,000 
 
 21 
 
 21--4 
 
 19-7 
 
 51-3 
 
 59-0 
 
 62-7 
 
 Oldbury ... ... c 
 
 10,132 
 
 
 c 
 
 3,428 
 
 
 
 
 
 c 
 
 74-7 
 
 
 
 (a) No information having been given by the local authority the grants have been taken at the same 
 amount as in the previous vear. 
 
 (h) Up to 1st April, 1907, Blyth formed part of the area under the Northumberland County Councih 
 (c) For the year 1905-6, no return for later years having been received. 
 
25 
 
 Area. 
 
 Government Grants. 
 
 
 Amounts. 
 
 Rates. 
 
 Rate in the £. 
 
 Proportion home 
 by Government 
 Grants. 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 (est. ) 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est.) 
 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c.. 
 
 T'. ' ■ 
 
 p.c. 
 
 Penge 
 
 6,209 
 
 5,406 
 
 5,325 
 
 7,500 
 
 8,000 
 
 8,900 
 
 in 
 
 m 
 
 15 
 
 45-3 
 
 40-3 
 
 37-4 
 
 Radcliffe 
 
 7,571 
 
 7,319 
 
 7,405 
 
 3,610 
 
 3,200 
 
 4,000 
 
 9J 
 
 8 
 
 10 
 
 67-7 
 
 69-6 
 
 64-9' 
 
 Rowley Regis 
 
 14,174 
 
 14,673 
 
 14,567 
 
 6,235 
 
 7,556 
 
 7,417 
 
 17-,^ 
 
 20-1 
 
 20J 
 
 69-5 
 
 66-0 
 
 66-2 
 
 Shipley ... 
 
 6,297 
 
 6,312 
 
 6,424 
 
 9,000 
 
 8,200 
 
 7,750 
 
 17-8 
 
 16 
 
 14-9 
 
 41-2 
 
 43- 5 
 
 45-3 
 
 Stretford 
 
 7,770 
 
 7,776 
 
 9,700 
 
 9,609 
 
 10,800 
 
 13,483 
 
 8-8 
 
 9-7 
 
 11-8 
 
 44-7 
 
 41-9 
 
 41-8' 
 
 Swinton and Pendlebury 
 
 8,801 
 
 8,609 
 
 8,500 
 
 3,947 
 
 4,348 
 
 5,378 
 
 8 
 
 8 
 
 12 
 
 69-0 
 
 66-4 
 
 61-2 
 
 Tipton 
 
 12,472 
 
 12,231 
 
 12,300 
 
 5,900 
 
 4,800 
 
 5,100 
 
 15| 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 67-9 
 
 71-8 
 
 70-7 
 
 Tottenham 
 
 47,640 
 
 51,887 
 
 52,328 
 
 44,185 
 
 46,644 
 
 60,777 
 
 23 
 
 26^ 
 
 31i 
 
 51-9 
 
 52-7 
 
 46-3 
 
 Tunstall 
 
 10,624 
 
 10,425 
 
 10,633 
 
 5,056 
 
 5,600 
 
 5,800 
 
 18J 
 
 19| 
 
 20J 
 
 67-8 
 
 65T 
 
 64-7 
 
 Twickenham 
 
 5,676 
 
 6,046 
 
 6,425 
 
 5,162 
 
 5,583 
 
 5,900 
 
 6-4 
 
 6-7 
 
 6-9 
 
 52-4 
 
 62-0 
 
 52-1 
 
 Wallasey 
 
 15,939 
 
 16,699 
 
 17,200 
 
 14,192 
 
 14,727 
 
 17,640 
 
 
 9 
 
 lOJ 
 
 52-9 
 
 53T 
 
 49-4 
 
 Walthamstow 
 
 61,588 
 
 62,008 
 
 66,678 
 
 30,300 
 
 33,210 
 
 35,400 
 
 19 
 
 20| 
 
 21i 
 
 67-0 
 
 65-1 
 
 65-3 
 
 Waterloo-with-Seafortli 
 
 7,509 
 
 7,263 
 
 7,424 
 
 5,360 
 
 5,460 
 
 5,520 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 10 
 
 58-4 
 
 57 T 
 
 57-3| 
 
 Willesden 
 
 35,557 
 
 36,402 
 
 38,767 
 
 50,099 
 
 59,806 
 
 65,598 
 
 16 
 
 18-3 
 
 19-5 
 
 41-5 
 
 37-8 
 
 37T( 
 
 Woodstanton United ... 
 
 8,761 
 
 8,835 
 
 8,840 
 
 5,512 
 
 5,900 
 
 6,000 
 
 16 
 
 17 
 
 17 
 
 61-4 
 
 60-0 
 
 59 -6J 
 
 Wood Green 
 
 15,437 
 
 15,795 
 
 15,857 
 
 18,039 
 
 18,638 
 
 17,784 
 
 19^ 
 
 19 
 
 in 
 
 46T 
 
 45-9 
 
 47-12 
 
 Wales — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Aberdare 
 
 18,174 
 
 18,691 
 
 18,750 
 
 15,225 
 
 16,600 
 
 17,500 
 
 19f 
 
 20f 
 
 22 
 
 54-4 
 
 53-0 
 
 51-7 
 
 Abertillery 
 
 12,026 
 
 12,450 
 
 12,622 
 
 11,645 
 
 10,634 
 
 10,522 
 
 24 
 
 21 
 
 20 
 
 50-8 
 
 53-9 
 
 54-6 
 
 Barry 
 
 18,022 
 
 18,397 
 
 20,000 
 
 21,762 
 
 20,933 
 
 26,780 
 
 20-8 
 
 19 
 
 23-8 
 
 45-3 
 
 46-8 
 
 42-8 
 
 Ebbw Vale 
 
 11,718 
 
 10,940 
 
 11,108 
 
 7,665 
 
 5,606 
 
 8.643 
 
 23 
 
 16 
 
 23 
 
 60-5 
 
 66T 
 
 56-2 
 
 Llanelly 
 
 13,017 
 
 13,101 
 
 13,150 
 
 6,500 
 
 7,000 
 
 7,500 
 
 24 
 
 19 
 
 19i 
 
 66-7 
 
 65-2 
 
 63-7] 
 
 Mountain Ash 
 
 14,135 
 
 18,054 
 
 16,900 
 
 13,500 
 
 15,600 
 
 16,200 
 
 20 
 
 22f 
 
 19| 
 
 51T 
 
 53-6 
 
 51-1 
 
 Pontypridd 
 
 15,710 
 
 14,735 
 
 14,250 
 
 15,835 
 
 15,285 
 
 18,040 
 
 20-7 
 
 19 
 
 22 
 
 49-8 
 
 49-1 
 
 44-1 
 
 Rhondda 
 
 52,140 
 
 55,232 
 
 56,778 
 
 44,000 
 
 47,000 
 
 49,000 
 
 21i 
 
 22i 
 
 19i 
 
 64-2 
 
 54-0 
 
 53-7] 
 
 County Boroughs 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 Barrow-in-Fumess 
 
 20,748 
 
 19,886 
 
 19,552 
 
 14,760 
 
 15,181 
 
 16,244 
 
 
 13^ 
 
 14 
 
 58-4 
 
 56-7 
 
 54-6 
 
 Bath ... 
 
 12,415 
 
 12,344 
 
 12,330 
 
 11,500 
 
 9,500 
 
 10,000 
 
 8-4 
 
 6-9 
 
 7-3 
 
 51-9 
 
 56-5 
 
 55-2 
 
 Birkenhead 
 
 40,519 
 
 38,867 
 
 39,690 
 
 35,185 
 
 38,955 
 
 40,051 
 
 14T 
 
 15-3 
 
 15-5 
 
 53-5 
 
 49-9 
 
 49-8 
 
 Birmingham 
 
 175,176 
 
 177,359 
 
 172,922 
 
 182,255 
 
 195,536 
 
 205,626 
 
 15T 
 
 16 
 
 16-9 
 
 49-0 
 
 47-6 
 
 45-7 
 
 Blackburn 
 
 39,959 
 
 39,212 
 
 38,140 
 
 29,347 
 
 32,033 
 
 38,392 
 
 14^ 
 
 16 
 
 19 
 
 57-7 
 
 55 T 
 
 49-8 
 
 Blackpool 
 
 12,413 
 
 12,400 
 
 12,386 
 
 12,850 
 
 14,000 
 
 15,700 
 
 6-5 
 
 6-9 
 
 7-6 
 
 49 T 
 
 47-0 
 
 44-1 
 
 Bolton 
 
 58,084 
 
 54,879 
 
 54,219 
 
 47,000 
 
 44,000 
 
 46,500 
 
 15-5 
 
 14-2 
 
 14-8 
 
 55-3 
 
 55-5 
 
 53-8 
 
 Bootle 
 
 19,517 
 
 19,970 
 
 20,750 
 
 27,698 
 
 28,414 
 
 29,897 
 
 12 
 
 I2k 
 
 in 
 
 41-3 
 
 41-3 
 
 41-0 
 
 Bournemouth 
 
 12,193 
 
 12,436 
 
 12,362 
 
 10,209 
 
 12,957 
 
 13,605 
 
 4-5 
 
 5-6 
 
 5-7 
 
 54-5 
 
 49-0 
 
 47-6 
 
 Bradford 
 
 83,974 
 
 81,928 
 
 78,000 
 
 120,371 
 
 all5,197 
 
 all5,197 
 
 18-7 
 
 al7-8 
 
 «18-5 
 
 41 T 
 
 41-6 
 
 40-4 
 
 Brighton 
 
 36,380 
 
 30,994 
 
 31,560 
 
 36,000 
 
 41,000 
 
 43,500 
 
 10-4 
 
 11-6 
 
 12-7 
 
 50-3 
 
 43-0 
 
 42-1 
 
 Bristol 
 
 117,967 
 
 115,813 
 
 115,910 
 
 87,000 
 
 85,500 
 
 86,500 
 
 12| 
 
 m 
 
 I2i 
 
 57-6 
 
 57-5 
 
 57-3 
 
 Burnley 
 
 33,191 
 
 32,404 
 
 32,800 
 
 20,528 
 
 18,089 
 
 19,980 
 
 in 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 61-8 
 
 64-2 
 
 62-2 
 
 Burton-on-Trent 
 
 18,554 
 
 17,761 
 
 17,998 
 
 17,390 
 
 18,116 
 
 19,024 
 
 12-9 
 
 13-6 
 
 14-5 
 
 51-5 
 
 49-5 
 
 48-6 
 
 Bury 
 
 15,204 
 
 16,161 
 
 15,700 
 
 11,179 
 
 10,323 
 
 10,733 
 
 9-9 
 
 9T 
 
 9-4 
 
 57-6 
 
 61-0 
 
 59-4 
 
 Canterbury 
 
 6,320 
 
 6,546 
 
 6,600 
 
 5,998 
 
 6,493 
 
 7,764 
 
 12 
 
 I2i 
 
 15 
 
 51-3 
 
 50-2 
 
 45-91 
 
 Chester 
 
 12,640 
 
 12,084 
 
 12,000 
 
 6,270 
 
 8,113 
 
 11,646 
 
 7 
 
 10 
 
 in 
 
 66-9 
 
 59-8 
 
 50 -8| 
 
 Coventry 
 
 26,168 
 
 28,002 
 
 26,895 
 
 14,919 
 
 17,044 
 
 19,600 
 
 13 
 
 13 
 
 15i 
 
 63-7 
 
 62-2 
 
 58 -OJ 
 
 Croydon 
 
 38,987 
 
 39,514 
 
 41,200 
 
 48,000 
 
 53,000 
 
 67,500 
 
 12-6 
 
 13-6 
 
 14-5 
 
 44-8 
 
 42-7 
 
 41-8 
 
 Derby 
 
 39,056 
 
 38,445 
 
 38,340 
 
 25,670 
 
 29,100 
 
 34,560 
 
 11-8 
 
 13-4 
 
 16 
 
 60-3 
 
 56-9 
 
 62-6 
 
 Devonport 
 
 22,629 
 
 22,492 
 
 22,100 
 
 16,200 
 
 15,600 
 
 16,300 
 
 m 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 58-3 
 
 59-0 
 
 57-6 
 
 Dudley 
 
 c 21,652 
 
 13,976 
 
 20,552 
 
 6,400 
 
 6,200 
 
 7,000 
 
 in 
 
 lU 
 
 12 
 
 77-2 
 
 69-3 
 
 75-6 
 
 Exeter 
 
 14,147 
 
 13,811 
 
 13,760 
 
 12,804 
 
 11,867 
 
 13,950 
 
 12 
 
 10| 
 
 
 52-5 
 
 53-8 
 
 49-7 
 
 Gateshead 
 
 40,295 
 
 39,474 
 
 38,571 
 
 31,910 
 
 31,919 
 
 31,900 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 55-8 
 
 55-3 
 
 54-7 
 
 Gloucester 
 
 15,818 
 
 16,726 
 
 16,548 
 
 &18,218 
 
 18,616 
 
 18,550 
 
 b2n 
 
 21^ 
 
 20i 
 
 46-5 
 
 47-3 
 
 47-2 
 
 Great Yarmouth 
 
 17,384 
 
 16,881 
 
 16,887 
 
 11,439 
 
 12,037 
 
 13,360 
 
 12| 
 
 13i 
 
 in 
 
 60-3 
 
 58-4 
 
 55-9 1 
 
 Grimsby 
 
 23,080 
 
 21,927 
 
 21,620 
 
 15,304 
 
 14,198 
 
 16,570 
 
 15 
 
 14 
 
 in 
 
 60-2 
 
 60-7 
 
 56-6 ’ 
 
 Halifax 
 
 28,691 
 
 29,089 
 
 29,979 
 
 36,661 
 
 37,894 
 
 40,220 
 
 20 
 
 20J 
 
 22 
 
 43-9 
 
 43-4 
 
 42-7 1 
 
 Hanley 
 
 21,541 
 
 19,643 
 
 20,019 
 
 15,000 
 
 15,600 
 
 16,048 
 
 15-4 
 
 16 
 
 16-3 
 
 58-9 
 
 55-7 
 
 55-5 1 
 
 Hastings 
 
 15,409 
 
 14,977 
 
 14,681 
 
 25,514 
 
 26,280 
 
 25,850 
 
 14| 
 
 15 
 
 14| 
 
 37-7 
 
 36-3 
 
 36-2 j 
 
 Huddersfield 
 
 27,131 
 
 28,625 
 
 26,300 
 
 29,674 
 
 30,176 
 
 30,156 
 
 
 16| 
 
 16i 
 
 47-7 
 
 48-7 
 
 46-61 
 
 Ipswich 
 
 24,327 
 
 21,822 
 
 22,043 
 
 15,021 
 
 19,322 
 
 19,897 
 
 IIT 
 
 13-9 
 
 14-2 
 
 61-8 
 
 53-0 
 
 52-5 
 
 Kingston-upon-Hull ... 
 
 91,156 
 
 91,283 
 
 93,294 
 
 56,805 
 
 65,254 
 
 81,409 
 
 11-8 
 
 13-6 
 
 16-9 
 
 61-6 
 
 58-3 
 
 53-4 
 
 Leeds 
 
 162,737 
 
 147,422 
 
 146,810 
 
 143,134 
 
 151,005 
 
 151,589 
 
 16i 
 
 in 
 
 17^ 
 
 53-2 
 
 49-4 
 
 49-2’ 
 
 Leicester 
 
 78,208 
 
 78,140 
 
 77,330 
 
 51,729 
 
 63,660 
 
 63,810 
 
 13 
 
 16 
 
 16 
 
 60-2 
 
 55T 
 
 54-8 
 
 (o) Bra<iford, including a rate of in the £ for provision of meals. 
 (h) Gloucester — Including rate for higher education. 
 
 (c) Dudley — Including £6,562 in respect of the year 1907-8. 
 
20 
 
 Area. 
 
 G 0 vern ment G rants. 
 
 Rates. 
 
 Proportion borne 
 by Government 
 Grants. 
 
 Amounts. 
 
 Rate in the £. 
 
 loot -7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 j 
 (est). 1 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 (est. ) 
 
 906-7 
 
 907-8 ^ 
 
 908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 90C-7 
 
 907-8 ’ 
 
 908-9 
 
 est.) 
 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 1 
 
 £ 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 d. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.c. 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 15,294 
 
 ' 15,071 
 
 14,066 
 
 10,450 
 
 9,907 
 
 10,648 
 
 11-4 
 
 10-7 
 
 11-2 
 
 59-4 
 
 60-3 
 
 56-9 
 
 Liverpool 
 
 238,374 
 
 241,644 
 
 239,130 
 
 285,000 
 
 280,000 
 
 281,400 
 
 17-8 
 
 17-2 
 
 16-7 
 
 45-5 
 
 46-3 
 
 45-9 
 
 Manchester 
 
 201,725 
 
 198,270 
 
 198,440 
 
 216,754 
 
 242,713 
 
 255,187 
 
 13-6 
 
 15T 
 
 15-8 
 
 48-2 
 
 45-0 
 
 43-8 
 
 Middlesbrough 
 
 35,582 
 
 34,421 
 
 35,000 
 
 27,575 
 
 30,385 
 
 as 33,705 
 
 
 
 
 56-3 
 
 53 T 
 
 50-9 
 
 Newcastle-upon-Tyne ... 
 
 79,875 
 
 78,952 
 
 79,006 
 
 78,240 
 
 82,871 
 
 84,186 
 
 12 
 
 12-5 
 
 12-6 
 
 50-5 
 
 48-8 
 
 48-4 
 
 Northampton ... 
 
 29,657 
 
 28,737 
 
 28,230 
 
 23,080 
 
 27,798 
 
 29,786 
 
 14| 
 
 in 
 
 194 
 
 56-2 
 
 50-8 
 
 48-6 
 
 Norwich 
 
 41,497 
 
 41,236 
 
 41,294 
 
 33,841 
 
 34,333 
 
 39,549 
 
 20i- 
 
 20 
 
 22,% 
 
 55 T 
 
 54-6 
 
 51 T 
 
 Nottingham 
 
 79,580 
 
 68,987 
 
 77,896 
 
 71,029 
 
 70,000 
 
 85,581 
 
 17 
 
 15-9 
 
 19-2 
 
 52-8 
 
 49-7 
 
 47-7 
 
 Oldham 
 
 45,407 
 
 43,962 
 
 43,683 
 
 39,130 
 
 37,138 
 
 40,864 
 
 22i 
 
 20-8 
 
 22-9 
 
 53-7 
 
 54-2 
 
 51-7 
 
 Oxford 
 
 14,345 
 
 14,353 
 
 14,300 
 
 17,547 
 
 18,054 
 
 17,800 
 
 in 
 
 111 
 
 in 
 
 45-0 
 
 44-3 
 
 44-6 
 
 Plymouth 
 
 34,554 
 
 33,963 
 
 34,187 
 
 31,301 
 
 31,706 
 
 31,363 
 
 13-9 
 
 13-9 
 
 13-6 
 
 52-5 
 
 51-7 
 
 52-2 
 
 Portsmouth 
 
 55,122 
 
 54,914 
 
 55,688 
 
 63,032 
 
 75,430 
 
 67,109 
 
 16T 
 
 19T 
 
 16-8 
 
 46-6 
 
 42T 
 
 45-4 
 
 Preston ... 
 
 38,143 
 
 37,535 
 
 37,570 
 
 10,486 
 
 12,881 
 
 18,245 
 
 6J 
 
 n 
 
 10| 
 
 78-4 
 
 74-4 
 
 67-3 
 
 Keading ... 
 
 29,256 
 
 28,015 
 
 29,460 
 
 34,360 
 
 31,178 
 
 32,356 
 
 21J 
 
 m 
 
 20 
 
 46-0 
 
 47-3 
 
 47-7 
 
 Rochdale 
 
 25,166 
 
 25,039 
 
 25,904 
 
 23,760 
 
 24,656 
 
 25,321 
 
 16-2 
 
 16-3 
 
 16-2 
 
 51-4 
 
 50-4 
 
 50-6^ 
 
 Rotherham 
 
 22,167 
 
 20,179 
 
 20,376 
 
 14,367 
 
 15,205 
 
 15,426 
 
 18-7 
 
 19-4 
 
 19-3 
 
 60-7 
 
 57-0 
 
 66-9 
 
 St. Helens 
 
 38,493 
 
 37,386 
 
 36,508 
 
 9,360 
 
 13,499 
 
 17,625 
 
 7 
 
 9-9 
 
 12-2 
 
 80-5 
 
 73-5 
 
 67-4 
 
 Salford ... 
 
 74,182 
 
 72,324 
 
 72,360 
 
 52,261 
 
 62,764 
 
 66,087 
 
 12-4 
 
 14-8 
 
 15-5 
 
 58-7 
 
 53-5 
 
 52-3 
 
 Sheffield 
 
 136,094 
 
 135,968 
 
 137,280 
 
 108,848 
 
 121,304 
 
 129,441 
 
 15-2 
 
 16 
 
 17T 
 
 55-6 
 
 52-9 
 
 51-5 
 
 Smethwick 
 
 22,864 
 
 22,266 
 
 23,030 
 
 13,400 
 
 13,916 
 
 18,900 
 
 14 
 
 14 
 
 184 
 
 63-0 
 
 61-5 
 
 54-9 
 
 Southampton 
 
 35,465 
 
 33,752 
 
 33,899 
 
 44,552 
 
 35,990 
 
 37,646 
 
 21-7 
 
 16-9 
 
 17-7 
 
 44-3 
 
 48-4 
 
 47-4 
 
 Southport 
 
 10,305 
 
 10,359 
 
 10,129 
 
 8,606 
 
 8,736 
 
 8,940 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 6 
 
 54-5 
 
 54-3 
 
 53T 
 
 South Shields '. 
 
 36,697 
 
 35,895 
 
 36,908 
 
 23,500 
 
 26,449 
 
 28,880 
 
 14| 
 
 16f 
 
 181 
 
 61-0 
 
 57-6 
 
 56T 
 
 Stockport 
 
 30,132 
 
 29,095 
 
 30,164 
 
 17,480 
 
 18,440 
 
 20,128 
 
 10-9 
 
 11-6 
 
 12-3 
 
 63-3 
 
 61-2 
 
 60-0 
 
 Sunderland 
 
 52,677 
 
 53,743 
 
 55,677 
 
 35,023 
 
 37,800 
 
 34,833 
 
 l^ 
 
 13* 
 
 in 
 
 60T 
 
 58-7 
 
 61-5 
 
 Tynemouth 
 
 17,459 
 
 17,411 
 
 17,390 
 
 16,665 
 
 15,340 
 
 16,515 
 
 17 
 
 15-6 
 
 16.5 
 
 51-2 
 
 53-2 
 
 51-3 
 
 W alsall ... 
 
 36,283 
 
 35,301 
 
 35,726 
 
 20,595 
 
 20,555 
 
 21,111 
 
 20 
 
 20 
 
 204 
 
 63-8 
 
 63-2 
 
 62-9 
 
 Warrington 
 
 24,798 
 
 24,637 
 
 24,810 
 
 11,172 
 
 13,398 
 
 15,343 
 
 11-5 
 
 13-5 
 
 15.1 
 
 69-0 
 
 64-7 
 
 61-8 
 
 West Bromwich 
 
 23,984 
 
 23,897 
 
 23,767 
 
 13,363 
 
 14,180 
 
 15,661 
 
 16 
 
 16-9 
 
 18.5 
 
 64-2 
 
 62-8 
 
 60-3 
 
 West Ham 
 
 158,133 
 
 167,521 
 
 163,916 
 
 122,900 
 
 111,500 
 
 109,000 
 
 25i 
 
 224 
 
 22 
 
 56-3 
 
 60-0 
 
 60 T 
 
 West Hartlepool 
 
 25,003 
 
 26,322 
 
 23,618 
 
 21,000 
 
 21,000 
 
 22,000 
 
 22 
 
 22 
 
 23 
 
 54-4 
 
 55-6 
 
 .51-8 
 
 Wigan 
 
 30,965 
 
 29,715 
 
 29,367 
 
 19,677 
 
 16,500 
 
 14,231 
 
 15i 
 
 in 
 
 104 
 
 61T 
 
 64-3 
 
 67-4 
 
 Wolverhampton 
 
 36,015 
 
 33,416 
 
 33,204 
 
 24,998 
 
 35,555 
 
 37,258 
 
 16-2 
 
 23T 
 
 244 
 
 59-0 
 
 48-4 
 
 47 T 
 
 Worcester 
 
 15,268 
 
 15,073 
 
 15,250 
 
 8,500 
 
 9,020 
 
 8,560 
 
 H 
 
 10 
 
 n 
 
 64-2 
 
 62-6 
 
 64-0 
 
 York 
 
 24,965 
 
 24,744 
 
 25,055 
 
 21,403 
 
 24,790 
 
 26,550 
 
 13 
 
 14| 
 
 154 
 
 53-9 
 
 49'9 
 
 48-5 
 
 Cardiff 
 
 57,221 
 
 60,104 
 
 59,120 
 
 60,799 
 
 64,312 
 
 65,685 
 
 13-5 
 
 14 
 
 14.3 
 
 48-5 
 
 48-3 
 
 47-4 
 
 Newport (Monmouth) .. 
 
 27,033 
 
 25,905 
 
 26,157 
 
 26,728 
 
 28,398 
 
 29,637 
 
 17 
 
 in 
 
 18 
 
 50-3 
 
 47-7 
 
 46-9 
 
 Swansea 
 
 38,172 
 
 37,588 
 
 31,418 
 
 31,988 
 
 33,770 
 
 34,536 
 
 18J 
 
 19 
 
 194 
 
 54-4 
 
 52-7 
 
 47-6 
 
 London 
 
 1,348,626 
 
 1,316,589 
 
 l,302,55t 
 
 j 2,997,2.38 
 
 2,922,293 
 
 f3, 001,651 
 
 
 16 
 
 164 
 
 310 
 
 31T 
 
 30-3 
 
 (a) Middlesbrough — including £780 for provision of meals^ 
 
 SUMMARY. 
 
 
 Government Grants. 
 
 Charge on Rates. 
 
 Proportion borne by 
 Government Grants. 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est). 
 
 1906-7 
 
 1907-8 
 
 1908-9 
 
 (est).' 
 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 p.c. 
 
 p.Ci 
 
 p.c. 
 
 Counties : — 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Areas under County 
 
 4,449,094 
 
 4,311,728 
 
 4,330,716 
 
 2,698,840 
 
 2,760.375 
 
 3,042,828 
 
 62-2 
 
 61-0 
 
 58-7 
 
 Councils 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Municipal Boroughs ... 
 
 1,157,024 
 
 1,132,918 
 
 1,134,428 
 
 820,416 
 
 861,554 
 
 924,407 
 
 58-5 
 
 56-8 
 
 551 
 
 Urban Districts... 
 
 775,439 
 
 792,606 
 
 812,975 
 
 668,048 
 
 708,569 
 
 777,890 
 
 53-7 
 
 52-8 
 
 51T 
 
 County Boroughs 
 
 3,361,622 
 
 3,300,993 
 
 3,298,831 
 
 2,942,712 
 
 3,083,650 
 
 3,235,621 
 
 53-3 
 
 51-7 
 
 50-6 
 
 London ... 
 
 1,348,626 
 
 1,316,589 
 
 1,302,556 
 
 2,997,238 
 
 2,922,293 
 
 3,001,651 
 
 31-0 
 
 31T 
 
 30-3 
 
 
 11,091,805 
 
 10,854,834 
 
 10,879,506 
 
 10,127,254 
 
 10,336,441 
 
 10,982,397 
 
 52-3 
 
 51-2 
 
 49-8 
 
 Note. — The figures as to rates raised in the county areas exclude in some cases the special rates levied 
 on particular parishes under sec. 18 (i.-c and d) of the Education Act, T902 (in cases in which it is clear 
 that this is so the fact is stated in a foot-note). The total charge on rates shown in the above summary is, 
 therefore, somewhat less than the actual total for the areas included. The figures printed in italics are 
 excluded from the totals. 
 
27 
 
 2. Statement of Government Grants in aid of Elementary Education in England and Wales in each 
 year since 1840, together with the charge on local rates and the proportion of the total expenditure 
 falling on public funds borne by such grants. 
 
 Tear. 
 
 Grants 
 instituted 
 before 1862, 
 (a) 
 
 Annual 
 
 grant. 
 
 Necessitous 
 
 school 
 
 boards 
 
 grant. 
 
 Fee grant. 
 (6), 
 
 Voluntary 
 schools 
 grant and 
 Aid grant (c) 
 
 Temporary 
 
 grants. 
 
 Total grants. 
 
 Bates. 
 
 Total 
 grants and 
 rates. 
 
 Propor- 
 tion of 
 grants. 
 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 £ 
 
 p. c. 
 
 1840 .. 
 
 9,909 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 ■ 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 9,909 
 
 — 
 
 9,909 
 
 100 
 
 1841 . 
 
 29,783 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 29,783 
 
 — 
 
 29,783 
 
 100 
 
 1842 .. 
 
 29,618 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 29,618 
 
 — 
 
 29.618 
 
 100 
 
 1843 . 
 
 27,337 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 27,337 
 
 — 
 
 27,337 
 
 100 
 
 1844 .. 
 
 34,284 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 34,284 
 
 — 
 
 34,284 
 
 100 
 
 1845 . 
 
 46,085 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 46,085 
 
 
 
 46,085 
 
 100 
 
 1846 . 
 
 50,053 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 50,053 
 
 — 
 
 60,053 
 
 100 
 
 1847 . . 
 
 48,628 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 48,628 
 
 — 
 
 48,628 
 
 100 
 
 1848 . . 
 
 65,596 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 65,596 
 
 — 
 
 65,596 
 
 100 ; 
 
 1849 .. 
 
 86,233 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 • — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 86,233 
 
 — 
 
 86,233 
 
 100 i 
 
 1850 .. 
 
 153,122 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 153,122 
 
 
 
 153,122 
 
 100 
 
 1851 . . 
 
 119,598 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 119,598 
 
 — 
 
 119,598 
 
 100 
 
 1852 . . 
 
 132,679 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 132,679 
 
 — 
 
 132,679 
 
 100 
 
 1853 .. 
 
 194,895 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 194,895 
 
 — 
 
 194,895 
 
 100 
 
 1854 . . 
 
 229,790 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 229,790 
 
 — 
 
 229,790 
 
 100 
 
 1855 . . 
 
 277,539 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 277,539 
 
 
 
 277,539 
 
 100 
 
 1856 . . 
 
 313,875 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 313,875 
 
 — 
 
 313,876 
 
 100 
 
 1857 . . 
 
 427,224 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 427,224 
 
 — 
 
 427.224 
 
 100 
 
 1858 . . 
 
 497,731 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 497,731 
 
 — 
 
 497,731 
 
 100 
 
 1859 . . 
 
 547,100 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 547,100 
 
 — 
 
 647,100 
 
 100 
 
 1860 . . 
 
 552,381 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 552,381 
 
 _ 
 
 552,381 
 
 100 
 
 1861 . . 
 
 622,904 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 622,904 
 
 — 
 
 622,904 
 
 100 
 
 1862 . . 
 
 592,841 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 592,841 
 
 — 
 
 692,841 
 
 100 
 
 1863 . . 
 
 444,538 
 
 83,358 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 527,896 
 
 — 
 
 527,896 
 
 100 
 
 1864 . . 
 
 26,504 
 
 386,724 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 413,228 
 
 — 
 
 413,228 
 
 100 
 
 1865 _. 
 
 18,882 
 
 396,124 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 415,006 
 
 _ 
 
 415.006 
 
 100 
 
 1866 . . 
 
 24,222 
 
 402,576 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 426,798 
 
 
 
 426,798 
 
 100 
 
 1867 . . 
 
 22,804 
 
 432,609 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 455,413 
 
 — 
 
 455,413 
 
 100 
 
 1868 . . 
 
 34,463 
 
 490,831 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 — 
 
 525,294 
 
 — 
 
 525,294 
 
 100 
 
 1869 . . 
 
 34,828 
 
 542,827 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 577,655 
 
 — 
 
 577,655 
 
 100 
 
 1870 . . 
 
 27,506 
 
 601,401 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 628,907 
 
 
 
 628,907 
 
 100 
 
 1871 . . 
 
 39,261 
 
 690,947 
 
 — 
 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 730,208 
 
 71,185 
 
 801,393 
 
 90-4 
 
 1872 . . 
 
 96,891 
 
 824,660 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 921,551 
 
 162,491 
 
 1,084,042 
 
 84-9 
 
 1873 . . 
 
 91,137 
 
 929,690 
 
 156 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 1,020,983 
 
 251,907 
 
 1,272,890 
 
 80-2 
 
 1874 . . 
 
 40,878 
 
 1,091,176 
 
 272 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 1,132,326 
 
 373,859 
 
 1,506,185 
 
 751 
 
 1875-6.. 
 
 97,039 
 
 1,272,495 
 
 384 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1,369,918 
 
 588,859 
 
 1,958.777 
 
 69-9 
 
 1876-7.. 
 
 149,273 
 
 1,415,140 
 
 499 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 1,564,912 
 
 868,419 
 
 2,433;331 
 
 64-3 
 
 1877-8.. 
 
 129,723 
 
 1,694,001 
 
 778 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 1,824,512 
 
 1,108,316 
 
 2,932,828 
 
 62-2 
 
 1878-9.. 
 
 104,854 
 
 1,961,017 
 
 716 
 
 4,362 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 2,071,219 
 
 1,328,276 
 
 3.399.495 
 
 60-9 
 
 1879-80. 
 
 64,042 
 
 2,093,443 
 
 1,174 
 
 7,493 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 2,166,152 
 
 1,484,312 
 
 3,650,464 
 
 59-3 
 
 1880-1 . . 
 
 33,288 
 
 2,213,633 
 
 1,334 
 
 7,628 
 
 
 
 
 
 2,255,883 
 
 1,579,754 
 
 3.835,637 
 
 58-8 
 
 1881-2.. 
 
 25,212 
 
 2,316,875 
 
 2,031 
 
 7,827 
 
 
 
 
 
 2,351,945 
 
 1,772,263 
 
 4,124,208 
 
 67-0 
 
 1882-3.. 
 
 9,757 
 
 2,467,694 
 
 2,444 
 
 5,470 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 2,485,365 
 
 1,837,567 
 
 4,322,932 
 
 57-5 
 
 1883-4.. 
 
 3,347 
 
 2,613,873 
 
 2,367 
 
 1,653 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 2,621,240 
 
 1,990,163 
 
 4,611,403 
 
 56-8 
 
 1884-5.. 
 
 1,257 
 
 2,850,182 
 
 3,790 
 
 303 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 2,855,532 
 
 2,207,807 
 
 5,063,339 
 
 66-4 
 
 1885-6.. 
 
 3,811 
 
 2,964,719 
 
 4,352 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 
 
 2,972,891 
 
 2,354,006 
 
 5.326,897 
 
 65-8 
 
 1886-7 . . 
 
 586 
 
 3,079,685 
 
 6,201 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 3,086,472 
 
 2,545,493 
 
 5,631.965 
 
 64-9 
 
 1887-8.. 
 
 — 
 
 3,110,210 
 
 7,167 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 
 3,117,377 
 
 2,641,554 
 
 5,768.931 
 
 54-1 
 
 1888-9.. 
 
 — 
 
 3,245,450 
 
 7,733 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 3,253,183 
 
 2,631,434 
 
 5,884,617 
 
 55-3 
 
 1889-90 
 
 — 
 
 3,326,220 
 
 7,292 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 3,333,512 
 
 2,666,265 
 
 5,999,777 
 
 55-5 
 
 1890-1 . . 
 
 — 
 
 3,414,411 
 
 8,217 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3,422,628 
 
 2,967,421 
 
 6,390,049 
 
 53-5 
 
 1891-2.. 
 
 — 
 
 3,496,747 
 
 8,395 
 
 774,884 
 
 — 
 
 
 
 4,280,026 
 
 3,331,474 
 
 7,611.500 
 
 56-2 
 
 1892-3.. 
 
 — 
 
 3,698,580 
 
 11,270 
 
 1,942,289 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 5,652,139 
 
 3,462,356 
 
 9,114,495 
 
 62T 
 
 1893-4.. 
 
 
 3,855,029 
 
 13,938 
 
 2,120,374 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 5,989,341 
 
 3,619,168 
 
 9,608,509 
 
 62-3 
 
 1894-5.. 
 
 — 
 
 4,056,437 
 
 18,793 
 
 2,151,575 
 
 — 
 
 — 
 
 6,226,805 
 
 3,732,342 
 
 9,959,147 
 
 62-5 
 
 1895-6.. 
 
 — 
 
 4,303,215 
 
 26,507 
 
 2,184,418 
 
 
 
 
 
 6,514,140 
 
 3,987,941 
 
 10,502,081 
 
 62-2 
 
 1896-7.. 
 
 — 
 
 4,516,420 
 
 45,971 
 
 2,257,002 
 
 
 
 
 6,819,393 
 
 4,571,261 
 
 11.390,654 
 
 68-8 
 
 1897-8.. 
 
 — 
 
 4,564,560 
 
 141,998 
 
 2,240,772 
 
 617,663 
 
 — 
 
 7,564,993 
 
 4,858,562 
 
 12,423,555 
 
 60-0 
 
 1898-9. . 
 
 — 
 
 4,900,927 
 
 200,001 
 
 2,302,952 
 
 617,306 
 
 — 
 
 8,021,186 
 
 4,782,828 
 
 12,804.014 
 
 62-6 
 
 1899- 
 
 1900 
 
 — 
 
 5,072,595 
 
 210,878 
 
 2,329,258 
 
 621,471 
 
 — 
 
 8,234,202 
 
 5,168,790 
 
 13,402,992 
 
 61-4 
 
 1900-1 . . 
 
 — 
 
 5,212,689 
 
 219,929 
 
 2,329,722 
 
 624,056 
 
 
 
 8,386,396 
 
 5,622,1.39 
 
 14,008,535 
 
 59-1 
 
 lPOl-2.. 
 
 — 
 
 5 381,094 
 
 213.727 
 
 2,415,751 
 
 618,200 
 
 — 
 
 8,628,772 
 
 6,229,064 
 
 14,857,836 
 
 68-1 
 
 1902-3.. 
 
 — 
 
 5,464,940 
 
 273,749 
 
 2,517,864 
 
 619,557 
 
 — 
 
 8,876,110 
 
 6,713,752 
 
 15,589,862 
 
 66-9 
 
 1903-4.. 
 
 — 
 
 5,355,876 (d) 
 
 283,586 
 
 2,548,308 
 
 1,566,807 
 
 
 9,754,577 | 
 
 20,502,985 
 
 40,926,914 
 
 55-5 
 
 1904-5 . . 
 
 — 
 
 5,630,531 
 
 77,411 
 
 2,620,897 
 
 2,340,513 
 
 — 
 
 10,669,352 1 
 
 (e) 
 
 
 1905-6.. 
 
 — 
 
 5,723,795 
 
 8,160 
 
 2,668,546 
 
 2,430,010 
 
 — 
 
 10,830,511 
 
 9,229,952 
 
 20,060,463 
 
 54-2 
 
 1906-7.. 
 
 — 
 
 5,918,867 
 
 — 
 
 2,689,188 
 
 2,469,463 
 
 170,862 (/) 
 
 11,248,380 
 
 
 Civil 
 
 Service 
 
 Estimates ’ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1906-7.. 
 
 — 
 
 5,876,700 
 
 — 
 
 2,742,000 
 
 2,474,000 
 
 200,000 (/) 
 
 11,292,700 
 
 
 
 52-3 (A) 
 
 1907-8.. 
 
 — 
 
 5,939,8.30 
 
 — 
 
 2,752,000 
 
 2,485,000 
 
 (200,000 (/) 
 
 1 100.000 {g) 1 
 
 1200.000 (/) 
 f40,000 (g) [ 
 
 11,476,830 
 
 
 
 51-2 {h) 
 
 1908-9.. 
 
 — 
 
 5,75.5,100 
 
 — 
 
 2,635,000 
 
 2,450,000 
 
 11,080,100 
 
 • • 
 
 
 49-8 (A) 
 
 (a) In many cases including Scotland. (h) Payment of fees of children holding honour certificates, 1878-9 to 1885-6 
 (C) Voluntary schools grant up to 1902-3 ; Aid grant from 1903-4. 
 
 {d) This amount and that for subsequent years exclude grants in aid of the training of pupil teachers, included in 
 
 former years. " 
 
 (e) This amount relates to the period of transition : on the assumption that the figures are for years the pro- 
 portion of grants in the last column works out at 65‘5 per cent. 
 
 (/) Special aid grant for areas with high rates. (g) Special building grant. 
 
 (A) See table on p. 9 of Memorandum. 
 
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