ATTACK ON VICTORIA
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Received August 20, 10.46 p.m. LONDON, August 20. Attacks are appearing in the Westminster Gazetio alleging appalling infantile mortality and a high rate of illegitimacy in Melbourne; also attacks on some phases of the factory legislation. Mr. Taverner, interviewed, strongly protested against the strictures.
Received August 21, 1.4 a.m. MELBOURNE,'August 20. A deputation waited on the Chief Secretary to-day. Miss Sutherland, agent for lie Neglected Children’s Aid Society, stated that for the five yeare ending 1906 there had been 4-591 illegitimate children under registered nurses. Out of that number 7UO died.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2164, 21 August 1907, Page 2
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97ATTACK ON VICTORIA Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2164, 21 August 1907, Page 2
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