Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force. – in the House of Commons at on 17 December 1941.
Dr. Morgan:
asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he can state the percentage of illegitimate births in the island of Barbados for the years 1940, 1939 and 1938?
Mr George Hall
, Merthyr Tydfil Aberdare
The percentage of illegitimate births in the Island of Barbados for 1938 was 59 per cent. Figures for the years 1939 and 1940 are not available, but the Governor has been asked for them and I will communicate with my hon. Friend on receipt of his reply.
Mr Reginald Sorensen
, Leyton West
Will not my hon. Friend agree that one reason for this high percentage of illegitimate births is the social conditions of the Colony?
Mr George Hall
, Merthyr Tydfil Aberdare
Yes, I should say that is one of the causes.
Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
