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New Zealand Tablet, 21 August 1919, Page 16

CATHOLICITY IN SCOTLAND. The spread of Catholicity in Scotland is matter for congratulation, ..as is evidenced by tho statistics in the Western Catholic Calendar, recently published. Tho Catholics of the archdiocese now number 400,000 the baptisms during 1917 were close on 13,000, while tho school population is almost 75,000. There are 120 schools, including 10 centres for higher education. There are four industrial schools, one reformatory, an orphanage, two certified institutions for children who are mentally deficient or blind, deaf or dumb; in all, there arc 17 charitable institutions. The priests in the archdiocese now number 306, while there are 93 missions and 136 churches, chapels, and stations. The latest undertaking in the archdiocese is the providing of a Fresh Air Fortnight for Catholic children.