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-rate would be much higher than the present statistics show. In those countries where the records are kept the number of still-born illegitimate births is always very high, sometimes twice as high--as it is for children born under the protection of marriage. 2. Deaths. An unusually high infant mortality is found everywhere among illegitimate children. In general, the illegitimate rate is twice as great as the legitimate. _Two unprotected children die for each protected child._ 1912-1916 DEATHS PER 1,000 UNDER 1 YEAR. All infants under 1 year. Legitimate. Illegitimate. 1912 95 91 121 1913 106 104 213 1914 105 100 207 1915 190 105 203 1916 91 87 183 The mortality of unmarried mothers is proportionately great.