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 PAUPERISM AND SOCIAL INSURANCE— FINANCE

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1918 in the 6 State reformatories was: 1,327, 1,394 boys, and 116, 1 1 S girls ; in the 5 disciplinary schools : 880, 1,145 boys, and 158, 173 girls.

There are both State and communal police. The State police consists«of field- constables and cavalry. The former are spread over the country, the latter guard the frontiers (eastern and southern). The cavalry police (marechansse) num- bers about 25 officers and about 1,018 men. There are about 1,339 — appointed and paid by the Government — field-constables, divided into numerous brigades. Besides each commune has its own field -constables or police force.

Pauperism and Social Insurance.

The relief of the poor is largely effected by the religious societies and organised private charity. The State docs not interfere, except when no relief is to be obtained from private charity ; in that case the pau|>er must l>e supported by the commune where he is living. There is no poor rate in the Netherlands. Mendicity and vagabondage are treated as offences, and persons so convicted can be placed in a State-work establishment. Workhouses for the poor are found in very few communes.

Number of poor relieved in the Kingdom during the year 1918 : — Heads of families, 183,607; other persons, 53,338; lunatics and idiot*, 14,113; women in child-bed, 7,891 ; in asylums (almshouses), 68,862 ; in hospitals, 79.497 ; in workhouses, 3,925.

The amount spent on outdoor relief in 1918 was 21,526,937 florins, for lunatics and idiots 7,399,534 florins, for maternity cases 63,672 florins, for asylums 11,389,607 florins, for hospitals 8,671,102 florins, and for work- houses 274,227 florins.

On September 19, 1916, a Government scheme for unemployment iinsnrance was set up in Holland.

Finance. The revenue and expenditure in five years were (12 gnilders = £l): —

Revenue.

Year

Ordinary

Extraord. (loans, Ac.)

Total

Guilder*

Guilder*

Guilders

19U

-1,000

41,848,000

1916

329,193,000

30,347,000

■ -

191V 1

164,893,000

89,917,000

594,S10,000

191SI

5S7,6S1,000

3,000

4i<4,000

19191

715,498,000

44,593,000

760,091,000

EXPENDITUKE.

Tear

General

Debt

Defence

Extraordinary

Total

Guilders

Guilders

Guilders

Guilders

Guilders

22,000

1915

166.629,000

48,226,000

242.694,000

70,971,000

1916

172.S97.0OO

73,099,000

283,351,000

53,246,000

582,093,000

1917 1

r.ooo

o.noo

314,930,000

65,291,000

748,984,000

1*18 >

M1.S76.000

•".000

36i,040,000

117,724,000

1,101,152,000

19191

600,648,000

114,021,000

164,683,000


 * S,000

"6,000

1 Provisional.