§ MR. TREVELYANI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he can state how many boards of guardians send their poor law children to public elementary schools; whether this practice is advocated by the Department; also, how many boards send their children to the public elementary schools, and keep them in the workhouse out of school hours in contact with the adult paupers.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD (Mr. CHAPLIN,) Lincolnshire, SleafordAccording to the latest returns 508 boards of guardians send their children to public elementary schools. This practice has for many years past been strongly advocated by the Local Government Board. I am not in a position to give any precise information on the point referred to in the last part of the question, but I may state that in the more populous unions the children are kept in buildings separate from the rest of the paupers, and that in all cases they are required to be treated as a separate class, so that they may be brought as little as possible into contact with the adult paupers.