Note 224 — CRIMINALITY. (continued 2)

With regard to the children received into the “Industrial Schools” during the years 1887 to 1891 there are the following data: 5% were illegitimate, while for the same period 4.52% of all children born living were illegitimate.224 Here we must take into consideration the greater mortality among illegitimate children. There are no recent data, but in England in 1875 this mortality was twice as great as that of legitimate children, and in some countries it is four times as great.