AN EXPLANATION
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—ln a recent issue of the "Evening Post" there appeared a news article under the heading, "Illegitimacy in Scotland—One in Every Five." This heading has somewhat misled many of the readers of your paper. Since this article appeared it has fallen to my lot to correct many with regards'to this misunderstanding. At first I doubted the correctness of the cabled news, with the result that I wrote for information to the Glasgow "Herald,"'and the information has just reached me. The cabled news is quite correct, but strange to say it only relates to this one part of Scotland-Hiamely, Wigtownshire (population approximately 32,000). The percentage of illegitimate births in Scotland in 1932 was 7 per hundred. Whilst this figure is admittedly a high one it is far from being so bad as "one in five," as many believe it to be.—l am, etc.,' '
ALBION ROVER.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 8
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149AN EXPLANATION Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 134, 8 June 1935, Page 8
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