OLD AGE PENSIONS IN FRANCE.
f To THY EDITOR OF THE "873HTZTOH:q SIR,—We have an Old Age Pension Law which is at the same time a Charitable Aid Law ; but the promoters did not fail to state that it would diminish the number of persons assisted. Statistical results prove a contradiction of thia assertion. The total number of persons inscribed on the lists for aid to aged persons, infirm or incurable people, bus risen from 571,000 on December 31st, 1910, to 599,000 at the end of 1911. This figure includes 399,000 aged persons of seventy and over, and 200,000 infirm or incurable persons. The entire amount of the sums paid to old, infirm, or incurable persons, plus the cost of hospitalization, reached ninety-six million francs in 1912 instead of ninety-three in 1911 and eighty in 1908. The number of persons assisted by the Charitable Bureau was 1,379,000 in 1911 instead of 1,283,000 in 1910. These are old figures already, but they are those given by the general statistics of France.—I am, Sir, &e., Yvins GLIVOR.
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