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each group, and having no time to undertake any original 

 investigation on these lines, I have been very glad to make 

 use of the information supplied in the section dealing with 

 children on out-relief in Miss E. N. Williams' "Report on 

 the Conditions of Children who are in receipt of the various 

 forms of Poor Law Relief in England and Wales." * 



First, then, as to the character of mothers in out-relief 

 families. I have said that we naturally should not expect to 

 find many out-relief families in Mr. Booth's Class A a class 

 which includes " the lowest kind of occasional labourers, 

 street-sellers, criminals and semi-criminals." The majority 

 will probably be found in classes B, C, and D, though if we 

 rank them according to the wage-earning capacity of the 

 husband when alive, some may be members of E and F. 2 



Miss Williams has classified her out-relief mothers, accord- 

 ing to character and intelligence, as follows: 



She gives also, as the proportion of out-relief mothers be- 

 longing to each class, the following estimates : 



1 Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress, Appendix, vol. 

 xviii., 1909. 



2 See above, p. i. 



