Mr. ARNOLD HERBERTasked what was the average number during the last five years of illegitimate children in workhouses in England and Wales being maintained at the expense of the rates, and what was the average expenditure for the same period by Poor Law Guardians upon the maintenance of illegitimate children and their mothers and incidental to the birth of illegitimate children?
§ Mr. BURNS:The average number on the 1st of January in the five years, 1904–1908 of illegitimate children relieved with their mothers at the expense of the rates in England and Wales was 6,360, of whom the large majority received relief in workhouses. I am unable to give the amount of the expenditure of Boards of Guardians on the purposes referred to in the latter part of the question.