§ MR. VINCENT KENNEDYI beg to ask the Secretary for Scotland if he will state what is the number of illegitimate births in the North-West Division of Lanarkshire for the last statistical year available; and will he say what percentage the figures bear to the rest of this county.
§ MR. SINCLAIRThe North-West Division of Lanarkshire not being constituted by complete registration districts it is impossible to give precise information. Taking, however, the portion of the division for which statistics are available, the number of illegitimate births in 1906 was 130 or 3 .8 per cent. of the total births thus registered, while the rate for the rest of the county was 6.l per cent.