H.—22.

Table showing Number of Children for whom Maintenance is paid by Charitable Aid Boards, &c. at 31st March, 1904, and 31st March, 1903.

STATISTICS AS TO OUTDOOR RELIEF. Table I.—Causes of Poverty (Chief Causes, not Tributary Causes). (This table refers to outdoor relief and to heads of families only.)

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Boarded out. ii Paii Insti 3 for itutions. Totals, -.-: A l A o o . • o l-J . r-l . CO V *-> go go « I go oo co 2 cd ; 00 00 ] co H co A Oi r. iH CO 1 I S 2 e8 Tji ! * CO sg ! Sg D9 £» rH rH CO 1 CO North of Auckland Auckland Coromandel and Thames... Waikato Bay of Plenty ... Cook ... Hawke's Bay ... Taranaki Patea and Wanganui Palmerston North Wellington Charitable Aid Board ... Wellington Benevolent Trustees ... North Wairarapa Benevolent Society Wairau Picton Nelson Buller... Inangahua Grey ... Westland Ashburton and North Canterbury... South Canterbury North Otago Otago United ... Otago Benevolent Institution Southland 10 1 1 2 3 7 12 7 2 10 1 9 ... 44 ... 20 8 9 50 19 1 8 "e 9 54 21 9 2 3 8 12 15 9 9 60 20 i 9 "e i 2 3 8 9 6 3 3 1 i i "i 2 3 9 9 10 10 ..'. 3 5 i 8 1 7 ... 117 2 ... 4 7 98 4 "1 19 ■ 147 26 4 1 28 4 1 4 4 24 8 8 33 5 54 5 18 163 130 17 8 10 73 37 6 25 19 59 38 "a ... ; 4 3 ... | 17 ... 10 ... j 8 25 34 9 5 ... : 64 1 3 ... 13 ... 218 1 ! ... ... 3 a i "1 7 5 3 25 10 8 34 15 137 40 13 5 4 30 8 8 58 24 113 43 18 ■2 "l 5 24 9 i'i 10 24 "2 5 3 5 55 I 218 164 54 i i 1 "i "2 4 2 2 Totals 205 224 21 40 596 1 515 102 21 801 739 117 55

CD cfl I g» 3S §<* C3T3 o g Am S< O CD JJ r—< CO JD •g c8 o o > CD CD fl 2 o B -S.SH fl « a a »r2 4a fl r2 <D fl & . CO , r< ■3 °> I * M oS '3 I .2-73 ■g« i 8"3 .2 eg "S CuO 08 cc .2 o £0 <D J3 fl u OO gM r5 Lack of employment — (1.) Able-bodied (2.) Inefficient Sickness Accident Insanity of bread-winner ... Imprisonment of bread-winner Desertion of bread-winner No male support — (1.) Widows ... (2.) Mothers of illegitimate children Intemperance ... Shiftlessness Physical defects. Old age Causes undetermined 2 3 27 5 2 6 14 16 7 145 6 17 10 39 10 31 30 1 3 26 18 2 2 26 "3 4 45 28 37 7 1 41 8 111 26 7 5 20 67 24 21 8 1 1 2 6 21 8 2 1 1 5 22 "'a 8 1 18 5 "a 6 Total number of cases 136 500 161 38 105 83