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Table showing Number of Children for whom Maintenance is paid by Charitable Aid Boards, &c., at 31st March, 1903, and 31st March, 1902.
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. [n *™ 3 for itutioi Totals. IS. J3 I ,fl -C OO • © 0 b . h . to * y . 5 ■ OJ I 02 0) 32 m CO I CO rH Q co CO 00 a <v M O q -a © - . M . Q -~l rH '—' CO CQ S 2 o 2 r-H P 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 WairarapaBenevolent Society Wairau Picton Nelson Buller... Inangahua Grey ... Westland Ashburton and North Canterbury... South Canterbury North Otago Otago United ... Otago Benevolent Institution Southland 10 1 ... 2 3 8 9 6 3 28 4 1 10 1 1 2 8 9 9 2 5 33 3 1 "i 1 1 "5 1 2 5 9 50 19 "1 4 7 98 4 4 24 8 8 33 5 54 5 18 163 11 42 22 5 "l 92 8 "8 "e 4 1 7 2 3 5 *8 9 60 20 2 3 9 9 10 10 I 130 5 4 30 8 8 58 24 113 43 18 11 52 23 6 2 8 10 9 6 12 136 1 3 22 9 5 55 23 112 37 14 "8 "l 4 1 8 6 ... 25 19 59 38 5 l ••• 19 16 57 30 1 6 3 2 8 3 17 9 5 36 7 55 7 14 158 3 "l 3 2 1 2 3 3 1 1 6 4 "4 5 i 1 "2 6 i 5 } 164 160 4 1 S 2 9 2 Totals 224 219 25 20 515 506 38 29 739 725 47
o g jam CO X> o o > m a 3 S 2 mEh 0 *> 13 p -3 .2 a ° 1 a .-£ . <s S> o ° SO .2 T3 w a c3 'o O, O c3&0 n « e > S3 a gm 13 H I'- 3 5-3 o C CQ <s 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 Intemperance ... Shiftlessness Physical defects... Old age Causes undetermined 19 11 119 2 10 5 45 9 39 42 3 2 29 "20 2 ' "l 1 10 4 33 1 " 7 35 50 10 "l 2 10 1 1 9 119 38 10 8 25 74 19 17 6 1 10 38 2 37 1 1 13 19 2 9 1 7 13 3 8 4 7 Total number of cases 504 181 15 114 109 72