MR. PIKE PEASEI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board when the usual decennial Supplement of the Registrar-General, dealing with the vital statistics for the decade 1891–1900, will be published; and whether, in view of the importance of this publication and the loss of utility occasioned by the delay in its appearance, he will take steps to expedite its publication in the future.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSI have communicated with the Registrar-General, and find that the first volume of the Supplement is in the press and will be published before the end of the present month, and that the Registrar-General hopes to issue the second about the end of this year. He is fully alive to the desirability of issuing the decennial Supplements as expeditiously as possible, but their value greatly depends on the elaboration of the materials they contain.