§ MR. WEDGWOOD (Newcastle-under-Lyme)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he will cause registers to be kept by the medical officers of all workhouses and infirmaries of feeble-minded females who are delivered therein of illegitimate children; and whether he will lay upon 235 the Table, or otherwise publish, an annual summary of such registers.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSI will take note of the suggestion of my hon. friend, but I think it will be desirable to defer any action in the matter pending the Report of the Royal Commission on the Feebleminded. I understand that the Commissioners are now engaged on their Report.