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For the information of the Council I append copies of
the list referred to in the letter of the Local Government
Board and the list that was handed to me on April 15th. I
am not aware that the suggestions made to the Public Health
Committee have been carried out in all Remand Homes, but it
seems to me an exceedingly necessary one; for on applying to
the Industrial Schools Department, as will be seen from the
above, we were absolutely unable to get information beyond
the three cases.
It would appear, however, that so far from being
negligent in the matter we took on ourselves work which
we ought not to have done by running over London to
the various police courts. The proper course (officially
speaking) would have been to have sent the list of the cases to
the Industrial Schools Department and left it to them to take
the necessary action, on the natural assumption that they
would have all the available information.