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The percentages coming in each class were as follows:—

By poor clothing is meant dilapidated, but not insufficient clothing.
It is the rarest thing, to find children with an insufficient amount of
clothing. The common fault is to crowd too much clothing on the
children, not only in cold weather, but even in the hottest part of the
summer.
A more extended classification was made in the case of the older
children.
The classification was as follows:—
A. Very well clad.
B. Well clad, stuff suit, good boots; always sufficient, even if
worn and poor.
C. Clothing poor but passable; old, perhaps ragged; some attempt
at. proper repair.
D. Clothing insufficient; boots bad.
E. Clothing worst possible; no boots nor makeshifts.
The condition of the children.s clothing from ten upwards, classified
in this manner, was as follows:—