H.—22.

Table showing Number of Children for whom Maintenance is paid by Charitable Aid Boards, &c., at 31st March, 1905, and 31st March, 1904.

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. Paid for Institutioi Totals. i s. a m . 55 o en H CO S . co «> rH *H /", TO 1-1 O a" o U HH rH IB rH OS (3 tH go ci en cS CO o OJ Q O rH CO CO CJ r~< c3 SO rH tH CO m en CD a a M s 03 cu s CJ CD Q 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 7 54 15 5 9 44 20 8 2 7 65 15 8 2 4 7 14 15 11 9 54 21 9 2 3 8 12 15 9 2 11 10 1 1 2 3 7 12 7 2 i "i i'6 "5 3 11 "(i 1 3 2 4 5 14 6 5 "2 l i "i i "2 2 i 2 "2 9 6 115 8 7 117 i1 i 2 2 "3 18 4 1 26 4 1 "8 137 147 10 12 15 12 54 42 8 4 15 2 4 3 19 8 9 31 4 67 1 14 173 4 3 17 10 8 34 5 64 3 13 218 2 "i "2 3 1 5 3 31 8 9 46 16 121 43 14 5 3 25 10 8 34 15 137 40 13 "fi 1 12 1 *2 10 73 37 "5 19 3 "2 *3 1 16 i 45 j 173 218 45 i "i "3 "3 4 4 Totals 209 205 35 31 549 596 19 66 758 801 40 83

•O-i cajq ri _ 1 r D ■M(3'3 _,*£<D I S3 S5 62 Si E §0 "a a CD _L CO "•O o a am EH 9 !H _ O H="C 'a? CO ® o3 .-'a Ojq OO o 1* o ■Is DO O CD ffirO 3 C30 M CD co h» a J o . *1h isffl a «5 O jo if Is. o 0 *3 cn ™ o 8-m s|s Ph O > CD a a 5 co P 3) r3 3 r^ i s CD m c3 . a>» *■£ h CD S'S .3 o cecc So O r" jZ. T3rj a * CO CO rH O COffl ■as S"" w 3 •g co a,^ !3 en a CD o > CO a CD A co rSfe, ® •o ® * CO 16 o<!< S3 B « E?'S *H CO ■So Sag *<3 0 --« •Si« gft'-S to o > CO a CD m o >, §?» Sg CO .a*. ol Lack of employment— (1.) Able-bodied (2.) Inefficient Sickness Accident Insanity of bread-winner Imprisonment of breadwinner Desertion of bread-win-ner No male support— (1.) Widows (2.) Mothers of illegitimate ohildren Intemperance Shiftlessness Physioal defects Old age Causes undetermined .. 4 2 1 6 "l 1 3 2 1 1 "2 1 1 3 98 'r9 2 "2 67 80 "l 1 9 33 58 "l 5 21 32 41 12 1 "l 2 1 4 4 7 1 1 ie 3 1 9 10 119 4 14 10 31 "6 13 6 19 1 47 2 2 41 1 10 1 25 3 3 3 7 100 36 40 1 27 3 2 8 55 11 16 4 24 88 28 2 "5 '35 2 3 5 "3 1 3 14 5 2 7 9 3 8 2 1 4 1 "3 7 2 6 "8 3 Total number of cases 12 96 20 10 185 176 173 105 27 37 493 74 67