[610] Ibid. 14th June 1902, p. 614.
[611] Mr. Jenner Fust's Report, in Thirtieth Annual Report, 1900-1, p. 147.
[612] Local Government Chronicle, 22nd June 1878, p. 489.
[613] Hansard, 6th September 1886, vol. 308, p. 1316.
[614] Local Government Chronicle, 2nd July 1904, p. 707.
[615] Ibid. 8th November 1902, p. 1126.
[616] Hansard, 21st June 1888, vol. 327, pp. 809-10; Selections from the Correspondence of the Local Government Board, vol ii. 1883, p. 139.
[617] We ought perhaps to add that the Central Authority is found putting pressure on boards of guardians who refuse to make any adequate provision for their children. In 1898 it is reported that, because the Darlington Board of Guardians refused to make such provision, the Central Authority had refused to sanction any alteration of the workhouse whatsoever until such provision had been made (Local Government Chronicle, 19th February 1898, p. 175).
The 21,526 workhouse children appear to be made up of: (a) infants under three; (b) children between three and fourteen, scattered in groups of a dozen to as many as seventy in the workhouses of the unions having no separate schools of their own (in the York Workhouse there are usually about seventy children); and (c) children temporarily in the workhouse on their way to separate schools, boarding-out, being apprenticed, etc. In another classification they are: (a) the newly-born infants of the women in the lying-in ward; (b) children between three and fourteen, who are orphans or deserted; (c) children of indoor paupers, who are either (i.) permanent residents; or (ii.) "ins-and-outs." We cannot find any expression of policy of the Central Authority with regard to any of these classes. In the Metropolis, it should be said, provision has been made for the relegation to special institutions of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, not only of children suffering from ophthalmia, etc., but also of children temporarily remitted to the care of the guardians by the police ("remand children"), who had heretofore been sent to the workhouses (Circulars of 19th January and 5th April 1897, and General Order of 2nd April 1897, Twenty-seventh Annual Report, 1897-8, pp. 8-9). We do not gather that any corresponding provision has been made for such children outside the Metropolis.
[618] Mr. Baldwyn Fleming's Report in the Thirty-first Annual Report, 1901-2, p. 91.