" It is needless to repeat here what has been
abundantly proved before, that the people died of starvation within the
shadow of those sealed up depots, and they would not be opened;--they
were opened when the supplies they contained were not required, there
being plenty in the market.
From the accountant's department we learn that 2,643,128 rations were
being daily issued, which it was hoped would be the maximum relief that
the Commissioners would be called on to administer; 79,636 of these were
sold. This shows an increase of daily rations from last report of
291,028. The fall in provisions had reduced the price of each ration
from 2-1/2d. to 2d. The amount given in loans and grants was now reduced
by about L3,000 a day, the expenditure in that way being then about
L20,000 a day. The aggregate amount of money issued up to the 19th of
July was L1,010,184 7s. 10d. to 1,803 electoral divisions. The cost of
the Government staff for superintending the issuing of relief, is set
down at two and a half per cent.--6d. in the pound,--a low figure,
indeed, but it must be taken into account that they only
_superintended_; the committees did the actual work of giving out the
relief.
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