§ Mr. SCURRasked the Minister of Health the number of illegitimate births per 1,000 of the population for each of the Metropolitan Poor Law Unions for the last five years?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINBirth statistics are not available for Poor Law Union areas as such. But the following table for Metropolitan Boroughs gives the desired information in the case of 22 Metropolitan Poor Law Unions which are conterminous with one or more Metropolitan Boroughs: