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APPENDIX II

*Overlapping of National Health Insurance and the Poor Law.*
Case-paper Number.	Period. 1918.	Particulars.
18364	June to October	Man in infirmary. Wife and five children receiving 10s. weekly from N.H.I., and 7s. weekly outdoor relief. Man now (13/11/13) in infirmary, children in Poor Law Schools, and wife apart.
23575	October	Man in infirmary. Wife receiving 10s. weekly from N.H.I., and four children being fed at school.
25462	July and October	Man in workhouse (mental wards). Wife receiving 10s. from N.H.I.
25112	May to October	Man phthisical. Ill May to Oct., 10s. weekly from N.H.I. Out-relief, food; 3s. 6d., four weeks (August). Man in infirmary 27th May to 1st July. Now at Sanatorium.
20645	July to August	Man sick, 17/7/13. Wife applies for parish doctor because the panel doctor has a notice exhibited in his surgery that he would only see panel patients at their homes on alternate days, and man had suddenly become worse. 2lst July to 23rd August out-relief, 39s. 3d. on account of sickness of man, and sickness benefit not yet available.
3890	September	Widow and four children chargeable at intervals since 1900. 3rd September, woman applies for parish doctor. She is an insured person, but not entitled to panel doctor because the sickness is the result of an accident. 13/9/13, woman reported to be receiving 7s. 6d. weekly sickness benefit.
2534	May to July	9th June, man admitted to infirmary. No Insurance benefit. "Card three stamps short." Out-relief in kind, seven weeks.
18458	24/7/13 to 30/7/13	Out-relief. Man sick, and Insurance benefit not sufficient.
	7th to 21st Oct.	Has had six weeks' benefit at 10s. week and 30s. maternity benefit. Benefit exhausted and out-relief granted.
25601	September	Man in infirmary, 24/9/13, 8th to 11th Oct. Out-relief to wife and four children because Insurance benefit not yet received.
19295	October	Widow. Has been relieved indoor and outdoor for four years past, at intervals. Out-relief 4th to 17th Oct. 14/10/13, applies for relief, under panel doctor, because no Insurance benefit yet.