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Exempted Institutions. From the provision that " it stall not be lawful for any person in consideration of any payment or reward to receive or retain in his care or charge any infant for the purpose of nursing or maintaining it apart from its parents or guardians for a longer period than seven consecutive days unless such person is licensed as a foster-parent " the Minister may grant certain exemptions, and under this authority exemption has been granted to the institutions set forth in the following list, which shows also the numbers dealt with and the deaths. The conditions of the exemptions provide for inspection, and for removal of the infants only with due formality.

Of the above 543 children, 31 have no parents living, 94 have a mother only, and 174 have a father only. The remainder (241) have both parents living. Deaths in Fostee-homes. Of the 1,403 infants that were at one time or another on the books as being in foster-homes during 1919, ten died ; of these, four died in the foster-homes and six in hospitals to which they had been removed for treatment, so that the deaths in foster-homes represented 0-28 per cent, of the total number dealt with. Four of the ten were under the age of twelve months, and five were of illegitimate birth. The following is a statement of the number of deaths during the time that the infant-lifc-protection system has been in the Department's charge : — 1908 .. .. .. .. 26 deaths out of 1,017 infants = 2-56 per cent. 1909 25 „ 1,181 „ =2-11 1910 26 „ 1,183 „ =2-19 1911 .. 13 „ 1,183 „ =1-09 1912 12 „ 1,228 „ =0-98 1913 13 „ 1,330 „ =098 1914 .. 20 „ 1,423 „ c=l-40 1915 14 „ 1,440 „ =0-98 1916 17 „ 1,250 „ =1-36 1917 12 „ 1,361 „ =0-88 1918 .. .. .. ..6 „ 1,341 „ =0-44 1919 10 „ 1,403 „ =0-71

Name of Institution. Ac Xj a O o 13 a & (i.) Imissio: 1919. _ _ cD *3 toe W tH co o 9 <° $ .a la II (a.) 11s, o en < a-a W (80 Deaths. co 2 ■ S • _ CO S, co S . *< a° ?|5 is £ a h3"S _ p pq3 Pig. ! I ) C'..) (0 I On the Bool IllstDecombo ~» S ■ 1 i ■§* r£ £ S p «a (7.) (8.) ks at iv, 1919 I o» _ ■a i -_ GUOCO ■ fl« d s * (9.) I Salvation Army Boys' Home, Russell St. Mary's Industrial School (Girls' Branch), Auckland St. Joseph's Orphanage, Takapuna, Auckland Mission House of the Order of the Good Shepherd, Auckland .. Orphan Homo, Papatoetoe, Auckland Children's Homo, Ponsonby, Auckland Methodist Orphanage, Mount Albert, Auckland Leslie Orphanago, Itemuora, Auckland Manurewa Children's Home, Auckland St. Mary's Home, Otahuhu, Auckland Salvation Army Orphanage, "The Grange," Heme Bay, Auckland Salvation Army Maternity Home, Auckland Cook County Women's Guild Crecbe, Gisborne Salvation Army Samaritan Home, Gisborne.. Children's Home, Palmerston North Salvation Army Bethany Home, Napier Wanganui Orphanage, Gonville, Wanganui Salvation Army Boys' Home, Eltham, Taranaki Presbyterian Orphanage, Berhampore, Wellington Levin Memorial Home, Wellington St. Joseph's Orphanage, Upper Hutt, Wellington Home of Compassion, Island Bay, Wellington Salvation Army Girls' Home, Owen Street, Wellington Salvation Army Boys' Home, Island Bay, Wellington St. Mary's Orphanage, Nelson Nazareth House, Christohurch Sacred Heart Orphanage, Mount Magdala, Christchurch St. Saviour's Home, Shirley, Christchurch .. Methodist Orphanage, Papanui, Christohurch Salvation Army Maternity Home, Christohurch Presbyterian Orphanage, Papanui, Christohurch Children's Convalescent Cottage, New Brighton, Christohurch St. Saviour's Orphanage for Boys, Otipua Road, Timaru . Salvation Army Boys' Home, Temuka, Canterbury St. Mary's Orphanage, Mornington, Dunedin St. Vincent de Paul's Orphanage, South Dunedin Glendining Home, Anderson's Bay, Dunedin Salvation Army Home, 15 Dunblane Stroet, Boslyn, Dunedin Salvation Army Home, Middlemarcb, Otago Presbyterian Orphanage, Gordon Street, Invercargill Victoria Memorial Home, Invercargill 2 15 30 3 14 5 5 25 13 3 2 I 4 20 6 23 7 19 2 8 16 23 4 1 12 1 3 9 1 2 1 43 4 2 15 2 1 14 1 78 56 1 22 6 12 3 1 20 1 64 65 15 4 1 3 8 "a 6 2 9 31 16 2 4 16 2 '2 8 8 25 33 27 5 4 10 14 6 4 11 27 7 3 8 11 5 4 2 i i 6 7 15 4 1 3 8 15 i 1 Totals 52 12 477 2 3 13 16 35 543