CARE OP CHILDREN

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2698, 18 February 1916, Page 3

CARE OP CHILDREN

BIG INCREASE IN COST.

The following clause appoared in tho Hospital Committee's report to the Hospital ancT Charitable Aid Board's meeting yesterday:—"That whereas the charges paid to the IMucation Department for the maintenance of indigent children in industrial schools were, for the nine months ending December 31, 1013, £3779 ; and for the corresponding period ending December 31, 1915, £4779, or an mcreaso of £1000; and the recoveries for the first-named period were £911, and for tho secondly-named period £913, or an increase of £2, the attention of the Hon. the Minister of Education be directed to the disproportion of the ratios of increase, as between the charges and recoveries." Mr. F. Castle directed special attention to tho significance of the figures, which showed a rather remarkable state of affairs. Ho believed that the smallliess of the amount collected on account of those children was duo to want of a business-like method of collecting the money. >

Mr. D. Campbell (chairman of the comniittcc) said that there was really no proper supervision of the children after they were put out, and that it was getting a difficulty to find suitable homes for them, which was highly regrettable at such a time, when the Jives of our children were so valuable. 'Hie solution of the difficulty would be the establishment of an orphanage of their own, and he hoped the timo was not far distant when that object would bo achieved.

The report was unanimously adopted,