..
Agriculture 12,000 18,000 6,000 ...
Professional Occupations 5,000 11,000 6,000 ...
Postal Service 10,000 14,000 4,000 ...
Municipal Gas, Water,
and Electricity ... 1,000 1,000 ...
Municipal Tramways ... 1,000 1,000 ...
Other Local Government
Service 5,000 8,000 3,000 ...

Total in Class 2 33,500 57,000 23,500 ...

(3) _Small Increase._

Food, Drink, and Tobacco
Trades 49,000 53,000 4,000 ...

TABLE V.

Number of Children and Young Persons convicted of Indictable Offenses in
Juvenile Courts in large Cities and in the Metropolitan Police Area from
1914-1917.

INDICTABLE OFFENSES. 1914 1915 1916 1917

Manchester 435 708 767 750
Liverpool 1,169 1,545 2,013 2,196
Leeds 191 256 295 385
Bristol 106 207 331 279
Birmingham 368 423 504 625
Newcastle 86 177 222 234
------ ------ ------ ------
2,355 3,316 4,132 4,469

Metropolitan Police
District 1,778 3,069 3,858 3,856

APPENDIX II

SOME STATISTICS REFERRING TO THE ILLEGITIMATELY BORN CHILD.

1. Births.

About 50,000 illegitimate children are born yearly in the United
Kingdom. Consider what this means. In the course of a single generation
of twenty years one million of these unprotected little ones are born,
branded because their parents have acted illegitimately.[235:1]

The exact figures for England and Wales[235:2] during the past five and
a half years are as follows:

Illegitimate
Percentage
Year Total Births Legitimate Illegitimate Total

1913 881,890 848,981 37,909 4.29
1914 879,096 841,767 37,329 4.24
1915 814,614 778,369 36,245 4.44
1916 785,520 747,831 37,689 4.79
1917 668,346 631,336 37,010 5.54
1918[235:3] 332,547 312,587 19,960 6.0

It should be noted that in England still-born births are not registered;
were these recorded the illegitimate birth