§ Mr. KINGasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will give the number of cases of women charged and indicted for murder and manslaughter of illegitimate children and for concealment of birth in each of the last five completed years, respectively?
§ Mr. McKENNAI can only give the numbers of convictions—not the numbers indicted—and, in the case of manslaughter, details as to the age of the persons killed are not available. In the five years from 1907 to 1911 the numbers of women convicted of the murder of illegitimate children were one, two, three, four, and three; the numbers convicted of concealment of birth were thirty-eight, thirty-four, sixty, forty-seven, and forty-four.