SIR WALTER FOSTER (Derbyshire, Ilkeston)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state the number of Poor Law children of the metropolis who are at present suffering from ringworm and ophthalmia respectively, differentiating between those 1472 housed in the Metropolitan Asylums Board special homes, those in workhouses and workhouse infirmaries, and those in the district and separate Poor Law schools.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) I am informed that the number of Metropolitan Poor Law children at present suffering from ringworm and ophthalmia respectively in the special homes and institutions under the control of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, is as follows:—
The following is the number of these children in workhouses and workhouse infirmaries, and in district and separate Poor Law schools on the 2nd April last, which is the latest date for which I can give the figures desired:—
Ringworm. Ophthalmia. 566 345
Ringworm. Ophthalmia. Workhouses and workhouse infirmaries 184 236 District and separate schools, including cottage homes and scattered homes 159 156