MELBOURNE'S MORALITY.
LONDON PRESS STRICTURES. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright, (Received August 20, 10.46 p.m.) London, August 20. An article appears in the Westminster Gazette alleging appalling infantile mortality and a high rate oi illegitimacy in Melbourne. An attack is also made on some phases of factory legislation. . Mr. Taverner (the Victorian AgentGeneral) has strongly protested against the strictures.
. - FIVE YEARS' FIGURES. Melbourne, August 20, M'iss Sutherland, agent for the Neglected Children's Aid Society, stated to-day that for the five years ended 1906 there had been 4591 illegitimate children under registered nurses, and out of that number 700 had died.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13522, 21 August 1907, Page 7
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