[580] Mr. Davy's Report, in Twenty-Second Annual Report, 1892-3, p. 72.
[581] Ibid.
[582] Mr. Baldwyn Fleming's Report, in Twentieth Annual Report, 1890-1, p. 222.
[583] Mr. Kennedy's Report, in Twenty-eighth Annual Report, 1898-9, pp. 168-9.
[584] Mr. Corbett's Report of 10th August 1871, as reprinted by the Central Authority in 1873 for official circulation.
[585] Bradford Union to Local Government Board, 26th January 1901 (MS. archives, Bradford Board of Guardians).
[586] Circular of 27th April 1905, in Thirty-fifth Annual Report, 1905-6, pp. 317-20.
[587] Thirty-fifth Annual Report, 1905-6, p. cxxxi.
[588] Twenty-third Annual Report of the Poor Law Board, 1870-71, p. 374.
[589] There are few statutory provisions of this period which affect the institutional treatment of children, and these few deal simply with financial questions. It is worth noting, however, that they tend to improve accommodation, as they facilitate increased expenditure, by allowing a larger sum to be raised for building, fitting up, and furnishing Metropolitan District Schools (Poor Law Loans Act 1872, 35 Vic. c. 2, sec. 1), and by allowing the expenses of maintenance in a certified school to be paid up to any limit to be fixed by the Local Government Board; and provide against overcrowding by allowing no repayment from the common poor fund in respect of children in a school in excess of a maximum number fixed for the school by the board. The special provisions for the education of defective children will be considered under the heading "Defectives."