§ MR. CLAUDE HAYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what steps he proposes to take to prevent the ratepayers of this country being continually burthened by the alien girl, who has not long been in this country, who is twelve years of age semi-blind, and of stunted growth, who has refused to remain with her aunt owing to ill-treatment by her aunt, and 1475 who, in accordance with a letter from the Local Government Board, is to be removed from the school to which she had been sent by the Bethnal Green Board of Guardians to another school, though the Bethnal Green Board of Guardians is, nevertheless, to continue to bear the cost.
§ * MR. GLADSTONEAssuming that the Question relates to the case of a girl called Annie Vischner, who arrived in this country in March 1904, I have made inquiries but I have no powers to take any steps in the direction indicated. I may, however, say that the case has been under the consideration of the Jewish Association for the protection of girls and women, and it is at their instance that the removal of the girl from the workhouse schools is proposed. It is intended to send her to an industrial school for Jewish girls, the final arrangements for which, including the question of maintenance, have not yet been made.