The Care of Waifs and Strays.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 250, 28 March 1888, Page 4

The Care of Waifs and Strays.

A Prussian law of October Ist, 1873 (says an exchange), provides for the compulsory education and public maintenance of juvenile waifs and strays. A return just published show* that from the day of thi.-> law coming into force, up to March 31st last, 12,500 children of this kind had boon taken in charge — 1,399 dm ing the year cncljn«'with the .latter date — and that 10,461 we're still detained Of theao 10,461 children, 5,918 had been placed in families, 4 in fttate establishments, 882 in establishments belonging to parochial poor - law authorities, and 4,337 in private establisnments. The pi o\ inee which }javo the f>'reate.st number ot waif* to the authoiities wa< Silesia, namely, 2,0^6; then came tl)e J'hiuo Province v.'ith 1,418, and Berlin 521. The cost of maintaining thu children amounted dining 1 the last fiscal year fo J, 500,405 irark-,* oi wliicli 750.567 jnark^ tell to paioLlr.nl authorities, and 749,918 markb to the State. The total cot horn the >ear 1&73 bus been 7,604,876 maiks, of which parochial authoiities ha\e p.iid 3,814,482 jniiic<, and the Stai< 3,790,394 marks. Tlu^ axcin^o eo^t of maintaining the children in families is 215 in.irUb in Berlin, 193 ii.uk-. in Silesia, 195 uiiukhiu \\ ctphaha, and only 102 marks in Hanoxer. The mm of innintoininn- them in public a:id inhate e.-taMi-hmcnls is 300 maiks on \n averaou in Hano\ei, 290 luaiki in lie: im. and 79 niarkf. in \Vcbtjjluilui.