H.—22.

Table showing Number of Children for whom Maintenance is paid by Charitable Aid Boards, &c., at 31st March, 1899, and 31st March, 1900.

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. Pai( Insti for ;utioi Totals i; s. ji -a S, . Z . 6 » d a> d o » 2 soi wo d ™ « 00 « OJ a) £ 00 DO 2 «D 53 S ° Q 2 If 00 r-t CO J3* o So sg en tH CO i 5 i i-l CD P J3 a dOi OS 03 rH CO 2 . CO 6 £ i d <a u o 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 Asbburton and North Canterbury... South Canterbury North Otago Otago United ... Otago Benevolent Institution Southland 1 28 9 1 1 20 2 1 8 7 2 47 29 7 6 37 32 6 4 3 10 3 75 38 8 7 57 34 7 4 18 4 1 1 3 23 9 5 3 14 12 4 1 3 9 "i i 3 24 9 11 11 3 15 12 10 13 3 9 1 "i 6 11 90 8 6 12 82 13 1 "s "2 "i 60 5 1 43 7 1 2 17 "e 1 • 163 145 18 17 3 10 16 60 44 12 1 17 14 53 43 7 5 2 2 4 40 4 6 36 10 42 7 21 193 1 4 33 5 8 40 8 37 6 17 184 1 2 4 7 2 5 1 4 9 3 4 57 7 6 46 26 102 51 21 2 4 45 6 8 57 22 90 49 17 2 11 1 12 1 2 7 1 4 12 2 4 5 7 3 14 2 J 198 187 11 "i 4 "i 11 18 7 Totals 307 266 20 61 570 542 20 48 877 808 29 98

1 a gPQ 32 r ii o § o © ■S3 o g d a S o R 'A a "a 1 i P 8 CD J* B O O CO o 4M d a> 1 o a to W . M v m "3 ■3.2 w I ■§■2 O° .2 eSCQ u J3 a !l u to r& O m -I o 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 30 11 106 5 2 9 57 26 18 129 4 9 7 33 62 79 95 4 1 11 40 § '43 Cβ I • t—i O a CO g 3 4 24 18 9 29 3 1 4 11 41 48 10 1 1 4 1 5 2 1 3 1 75 17 135 28 81 3 12 3 40 2 1 38 1 Intemperance Shiftlessness Physical defects Old age Causes undetermined. 1 2 21 154 4 5 4 18 96 27 15 38 42 91 3 1 21 2 4 5 18 1 4 5 7 4 8 1 Total number of cases ... 494 539 565 39 27 144 125 64