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Before parting from this branch of relief measures, it
is right and appropriate that the Government should acknow-
ledge the assistance furnished in the shape of numerous works
which were carried out entirely at their own expense in
various parts of the Provinces by private gentlemen, chiefly of
the landowning classes, in order to supply employment for
destitute labourers. This ancient and characteristic form of
charity calls for recognition here. Though a useful auxiliary
to the State or State-assisted relief works, yet it is naturally
not possible to formulate with any precision the cost of
works so executed, or the extent to which they afforded relief.
The best estimates available go to show that they cost their
promoters Rs. 3,27,758 and that they relieved about four million
people for one day.
Section II.—Gratuitous village relief, poorhouses, and
State kitchens.
Next after the operations of the Public Works De-
partment by far the largest volume of relief was administered
through the outdoor or village relief system, poorhouses, and
State kitchens. The organization of the system of village
relief has already been described in detail, and the place which
poorhouses and State kitchens occupied in the general scheme
has also been stated in Chapter V above. It is needless,
therefore, to repeat the description here ; or to do much more
than exhibit the statistical and financial results of these great
departments of the relief system. The following tabular
statement displays the numbers who were in receipt of out-
door relief or were inmates of poorhouses on the last Saturday
in every month from, the commencement of relief operations
in October 1896 to their close:—
Month and Yeae.
Number on outdoor
or village relief.
Number in poorhouses
or in State kitchens.
October 1896
a © e
7,340
13,532
November „
• ••
8,787
21,251
December „
30,435
39,951
January 1897
9 0©
...
232 662
57,286
February „
...
...
263,950
51,435
Ma>-ck ,5
...
252,982
30,974
April „
• ••
IM
...
262,470
31,107
May „
« • «
288,339
38,947
June ,,
,,,
...
330,256
42,837
July „
t>t
...
357,576
48,770
August „
9 0©
.00
...
334,248
34,180
September „
...
...
197,395
10,230
October „
...
...
605
The number of units or persons gratuitously relieved for one
day by Government under the outdoor relief system was
76,601,511; while the number of persons similarly relieved
for one day in poorhouses and State kitchens was 12,272,116.
The total thus gratuitously relieved for one day by Civil (as
distinguished from Public Works) Officers was 88,873,960.
Before parting from this branch of relief measures, it
is right and appropriate that the Government should acknow-
ledge the assistance furnished in the shape of numerous works
which were carried out entirely at their own expense in
various parts of the Provinces by private gentlemen, chiefly of
the landowning classes, in order to supply employment for
destitute labourers. This ancient and characteristic form of
charity calls for recognition here. Though a useful auxiliary
to the State or State-assisted relief works, yet it is naturally
not possible to formulate with any precision the cost of
works so executed, or the extent to which they afforded relief.
The best estimates available go to show that they cost their
promoters Rs. 3,27,758 and that they relieved about four million
people for one day.
Section II.—Gratuitous village relief, poorhouses, and
State kitchens.
Next after the operations of the Public Works De-
partment by far the largest volume of relief was administered
through the outdoor or village relief system, poorhouses, and
State kitchens. The organization of the system of village
relief has already been described in detail, and the place which
poorhouses and State kitchens occupied in the general scheme
has also been stated in Chapter V above. It is needless,
therefore, to repeat the description here ; or to do much more
than exhibit the statistical and financial results of these great
departments of the relief system. The following tabular
statement displays the numbers who were in receipt of out-
door relief or were inmates of poorhouses on the last Saturday
in every month from, the commencement of relief operations
in October 1896 to their close:—
Month and Yeae.
Number on outdoor
or village relief.
Number in poorhouses
or in State kitchens.
October 1896
a © e
7,340
13,532
November „
• ••
8,787
21,251
December „
30,435
39,951
January 1897
9 0©
...
232 662
57,286
February „
...
...
263,950
51,435
Ma>-ck ,5
...
252,982
30,974
April „
• ••
IM
...
262,470
31,107
May „
« • «
288,339
38,947
June ,,
,,,
...
330,256
42,837
July „
t>t
...
357,576
48,770
August „
9 0©
.00
...
334,248
34,180
September „
...
...
197,395
10,230
October „
...
...
605
The number of units or persons gratuitously relieved for one
day by Government under the outdoor relief system was
76,601,511; while the number of persons similarly relieved
for one day in poorhouses and State kitchens was 12,272,116.
The total thus gratuitously relieved for one day by Civil (as
distinguished from Public Works) Officers was 88,873,960.