8.—4.

The following is a comparison of the rates paid during the last five years:— 1916. 1917. 1918. 1919. 1920. Under 7s. per week ... ... 31 19 11 7 2 7s, and under 10s. per week ... 128 75 52 53 22 10s. per week... ... ... 539 532 502 368 240 Over 10s. per week ... ... 143 215 294 376 531 Exempted Institutions. From the provision that " it shall 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 the removal of the infants only with duo formality.

Of the above 442 children, 20 have no parents living, 87 have a mother only, and 120 have a father only. The remainder (215) have both parents living. Deaths in Fostek-homes. Of the 1,306 infants that were, at one time or another on the books as being in foster-homes during 1920, fourteen died; of these, two died in the foster-homes, eleven in hospitals to which they had been removed for treatment, and one died in- her mother's homo to which she was removed with doctor's consent a few hours before death, so that the deaths in foster-homes represented 0'15 per cent, of the total number, dealt with. Nino of tho fourteen Were under the age of twelve months, and eleven were of illegitimate birth.

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Adi nissio: 1920. is, leaths. On t) iilst D( ie Bool cenibei :s at f, 1920. Name of Institution. 171 fl , O <D »f CD ' •a a P (i.) &£ a-sl s « co o fl CO CO M 1 H "©•S (2.)_ CD w 3»7 flio ■3 3 35a a 3 6 P. w co-tl © ° a P (4) 04 m 1-1 CO ® 03 %< <§- d .-h'-' S Ss lag C fl *o -* II fir (a.) (6.) CO .fl a £! §) co< 11 ° fl p (7.) CM •O tx §3 fl at S3 5§ S3 (8.) © "5 Sfo . ri rJ(S as (9.) (3.) Salvation Army Boys' Homo, 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 Home, Ponsonby, Auckland Methodist Orphanage, Mount Albert, Auckland Leslie Orphanage, Romuora, 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 Creche, Gisborne Salvation Army Samaritan Home, G-isborne.. Children's Home, Palmerston North Manawatu Willard Children's Home, Palmerston North Salvation Army Bethany Home, Napier St. Hilda's Home, Otane, Hawke's Bay Wanganui Orphanage, Gonville, Wanganui Salvation Army Boys' Home, Eltham, Taranaki Presbyterian Orphanage, Berharnpore, Wellington Levin Memorial Home, Wellington.. St. Josoph's Orphanage, Uppor 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 Saored Heart Orphanage, Mount Magdala, Christchurch St. Saviour's Home, Shirley, Christchurch Methodist Orphanage, Papanui, Christohurch Salvation Army Maternity Home, Christchurch Presbyterian Orphanage, Papanui, Ohristohuroh Children's Convalescent Cottage, New Brighton, Christchurch 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 Street, Roslyn, Dunedin Salvation Army Homo, Middlemarch, Otago Presbyterian Orphanage, Gordon Street, IrivercargiU Victoria Memorial Home, Invereargill .. i 1 '2 10 i 10 15 Day nurso ry on ly. 2 1 3 1 14 4 .'! '2 6 8 3 3 15 18 4 8 4 " '2 io '3 *2 '4 12 29 5 11 50 5 3 i '2 3 1 10 3 5 6 9 9 8 26 '2 2 3 6 7 1 02 50 1 '3 1 7 18 1 51 65 1 3 10 31 34 19 16 2 i 12 2 3 14 9 10 " i 1 i 1 1 109 1 1 109 3 6 i 2 17 6 4 4 '2 15 3 8 '2 '5 20 3 7 1 10 2 (3 2 i 1 i 10 5 i Totals 163 38 459 3 4 19 19 24 442