§ LORD EDMUND TALBOT (Sussex, Chichester)To ask the President of the Local Government Board if he will state the number of children maintained
| Number of Children chargeable of Poor Law Unions in London. | Number of Children chargeable to Poor Law Unions outside London. | Total. | |
| (a) Not including insane and idiots— | |||
| (i) In workhouses, otherwise than in infirm wards | 1,184 | 13,872 | 15,056 |
| (ii) In infirm wards or infirmaries | 2,382 | 4,912 | 7,294 |
| (b) Insane and idiots in workhouses* | 6 | 297 | 303 |
| 3,572 | 19,081 | 22,653 | |
| * There were also 133 children chargeable to London Unions in district sick asylums, and 759 children in the imbecile asylums belonging to the managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District. |