Mr. Waugh has won his battle for the children whom
their elders oppress and torment. At the annual congress of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, held on Thursday at the Colston Hall, Bristol, it was announced that the income of the Society had increased from 23,789 in the first year of its existence, namely, 1889, when it dealt with 737 cases of cruelty and possessed 10 inspectors, to 266,975 in 1895-6, when it dealt with 20,739 cases of cruelty to children, and bad 137 inspectors. Even so, as the Duke of Abercorn, who was in the chair, remarked, the Society might do a good deal more if it could but get the means, and it is to be hoped that its inoome will go on increasing till it can deal with all cases of cruelty which, tinder its temperate and wise managers, it is deemed advisable to take action on. Mr. A. O'Connor, ALP., pointed out that in relation to illegitimate children there is still very great room for increased exertion. Every year fifty thousand such children are born in England, and the mortality amongst them is five times as great as amongst legitimate children. Mr. Waugh has been one of the truest and noblest philanthropists of our day.
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