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TABLE XXX. Welsh Parliamentary Boroughs.

Name of Borough

No. of Mem- bers

Name of Borough

No. of

Mem- bers

Cardiff .... .Carnarvon District (Ban- gor, Carnarvon, Con- way, Pwllheli.Criccieth,

3 I

Merthyr Tydfil Newport Rhondda Swansea

2

I

2 2

fechan, Penmaenmawr, Nevin)

Total ....

II

TABLE XXXI. Scottish Parliamentary Boroughs.

Name of Borough

No. of Mem- bers

Name of Borough

No. of Mem- bers

Aberdeen

2

Kirkcaldy District

Ayr District (Ayr, Ar-

(Kirkcaldy, Buck-

drossan, Irvine, Prest-

haven, Methil, In-

wick, Saltcoats, Troon)

I

nerleven, Burntisland,

Dumbarton District

Dysart, Kinchorn).

I

(Dumbarton, Clyde-

Leith ....

I

bank) ....

I

Montrose District

Dundee ....

2

(Montrose, Arbroath,

Dunfermline District

Brechin, Forfar, In-

(Dunfermline, Cow-

verbervie)

I

denbeath, Inverkeith-

Paisley ....

I

ing, Lochgelly).

I

Stirling and Falkirk

'Edinburgh

5

(with Grangemouth)

I

j e

1 i hi 1 -) J < )\\. . ..

15

Greenock

I

Total ....

33

TABLE XXXII. English County Divisions.

t

Name of County

No. of Divs. and Mem- bers

Name of County

No. of Divs. and Mem- bers

'Bedford ....

3

Leicester. .

4

Berks ....

3

Parts of Lindsey (Lin-

Bucks ....

3

colnshire).

4

Cambridge

i

Middlesex

10

Chester ....

9

Norfolk

5

Cornwall

5

Northampton (with

Cumberland.

4

Soke of Peterborough)

4

Derby ....

8

Northumberland.

3

Devon ....

7

Nottingham.

5

Dorset ....

4

Oxford ....

2

Durham ....

ii

Salop ....

4

Essex ....

8

Somerset

6

Gloucester

4

Stafford

7

Hants ....

6

Suffolk, East

3

Hereford ....

2

Suffolk, West

2

Hertford ....

5

Surrey ....

7

Holland with Boston

Sussex, East.

4

1 (Lincolnshire) 'Huntingdon

i

i

Sussex, West Warwick

2

4

!Isle of Ely

i

Westmorland

i

lisle of Wight.

i

Wilts ....

5

Kent .....

ii

Worcester

4

Parts of Kesteven

York, East Riding

3

(Lincolnshire) and

York, North Riding.

4

Rutland

2

York, West Riding

19

Lcinciistor

18

Total ....

226

TABLE XXXIII. Wels h County Divisions.

Name of County

No. of Divs.

Name of County

No. of Divs.

Anglesey. Brecon and Radnor Cardigan Carmarthen. Carnarvon Denbigh

I i i

2

I

Glamorgan. ' Merioneth Monmouth. Montgomery Pembroke

7

i

5 i i

Flint

I

Total ....

24

As compared with the former distribution of seats, London boroughs, in the Act of 1918, gained 3 members; other bor- oughs gained 33 (31 new boroughs were created and 44 old boroughs were abolished); the counties lost 5 members; the universities gained 6 members, the newer universities being represented for the first time. Membership of the House of

TABLE XXXIV. Scottish' County Divisions.

Name of County

No. of Divs. and Mem- bers

Name of County

No. of Divs. and Mem- bers

Aberdeen and Kincardine Argyll. . . Ayr and Bute. Banff Berwick & Haddington Caithness & Sunderland Dumbarton Dumfries Fife .... Forfar Galloway

3

I

3

2 I I

Lanark. Linlithgow Midlothian and Peebles Moray and Nairn Orkney and Shetland Perth and Kinross Renfrew Roxburgh and Selkirk Stirling and Clackman- nan

7 i

2 I I

2 2

I

2

Cromartv.

3

Total. . ..

38

TABLE XXXV. University Constituencies.

Name of County

No. of Divs. and Mem- bers

Name of County

No. of Divs. and Mem- bers

Oxford .... Cambridge London .... Wales .... Durham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Shef- field, Birmingham, Bristol ....

2 2 I

I

2

St. Andrews, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh

3

Total ....

II

Commons totalled 707: England 492 (an addition of 31), Wales 36 (addition of 2), Scotland 74 (addition of 2), Ireland (the Act did not cover Irish redistribution), 105. On the ex- tension and revision of the franchise under the Act, see ENG- LISH HISTORY.

Local Government. Some important changes were made in the municipal status of towns in England and Wales in the years preceding 1920. Barnsley, Carlisle, Darlington, Dews- bury, Eastbourne, East Ham, Southend-on-Sea, Stoke-on- Trent, Wakefield and Wallasey became county boroughs. Aylesbury, Buxton, Devonport, Fowey, Llanelly and Stour- bridge became municipal boroughs. The following were created urban districts: Ardwick-le-Street, Axminster, Bed- dington and Wallington, Bedwas and Machen, Bentley with Arksey, Bletchley, Bungay, Chorleywood, Coulsdon and Purley, Cwmamman, Haslemere, Letchworth, Leyland, Long Benton, Market Drayton, Mitcham, Oadby, Prudhoe, Seaton Delavel, Spenborough, Stratford and Wolverton, Tilbury, Yiewsley. The following urban districts changed their names: Ynseyn- haiarn to Portmadoc, Ystradyfodwg to Rhondda, Merton to Merton and Morden, New Shoreham to Shorcham-by-Sea, Preesall with Hackensall to Preesall, Hunstanton to New Hunstanton, Hucknall Torkard to Hucknall, Ncwbold and Dunstan Whittington to Whittington and Newbold. The Greater Birmingham scheme, which came into operation Nov. 9 1911, included in the city of Birmingham the farmer borough of Aston Manor and certain urban districts. (O. J. R. H).

MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF THE NATION

In order to appreciate the nature and scope of the physical census of men of military age carried out in the United Kingdom by the Ministry of National Service during the last years of the World War, it is necessary to recapitulate briefly the phases through which the recruiting arrangement for the British army passed during the- earlier stages of the war.

Before the -war 'the British army was a voluntary army, and only men between 18 and 30 years of age of good physique and free from any physical defect were accepted for enlistment. It was laid down that the height and chest measurements of each recruit should accord with each other and with his age in con- formity with the official table of standards. Each recruit whose physical condition did not conform, to these standards was re-