d.

The amount raised by taxation in New Zealand (including local rates)
during the year 1902-03, amounted per head of population (excluding
Maories) to L5 4s. 7d. The bread-winners in New Zealand number according
to official returns, 340,230, and the total rates and taxes collected
for the year 1902-03 amounted to L4,174,787 or L12 5s. 4d. for each
bread-winner for the year.

On March 31st, 1901 (the last census date) there were 23.01 persons per
thousand of population over 15 years of age, unable to work from
sickness, accident and infirmity. Of these 12.72 were due to sickness
and accident, and 10.29 to "specified infirmities."

The proportion of those suffering from sickness and accident in 1874 was
12.64 per 1000 over 15 years, practically the same as for 1901, while
disability from "specified infirmities" (lunacy, idiocy, epilepsy,
deformity, etc.)--degeneracies strongly hereditary--rose rapidly from
5.32 in 1874 to 10.29 in 1901, or taking the total sickness and
infirmity, from 17.96 in 1874 to 23.01 in 1901.

On the last census date there were 340,230 bread-winners, and 12,747
persons suffering from sickness, accident, and infirmity, or 26 fit to
work and earn for every one unfit.

The cost to the Colony per year of--

L
1. Hospitals, year ended 31st March, 1903 138,027

2. Charitable Aid (expended by boards),

year ended 31st March, 1903 93,158

3. Lunatic Asylums, year ended 31st Dec,

1902 (gross) 85,238

Lunatic Asylums, year ended 31st Dec,

1902 (nett) 64,688

4. Industrial Schools, year ended 31st Dec,1902

Government Industrial Schools for

neglected and criminal children 21,708

Government Expenditure on Private

Denominational Industrial Schools 2,526

5. Police Force, year ended 31st March, 1903 123,804

6. Prisons, year ended 31st March, 1903 32,070

7. Criminal Courts (Criminal Prosecutions),
year ended 31st March, 1903 16,813

8. Old Age Pensions (pensions only for
persons over 65 years of age, who
have been 25 years in the Colony,
and who make a declaration of
poverty, including departmental
expenses) 212,962

A total of L705,756. This constitutes the burden due to defectives and
defects in others