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None of the mentally defective children who left at the age
limit of 16 years are really working, but the physically defective
boy has a paper round. Whilst, with the exception of two mentally
defective boys, all those children who were given permission
to leave at 14 + years to take up work are working steadily and
showing good promise.
The children who returned to Ordinary Schools report themselves
joyfully at intervals, and seem to be going well ahead
amongst normal children.
Of old scholars who have visited us during the year are
some who left in 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, and later. Some
have married and are successfully keeping their families by their
own efforts. Some are in businesses of their own—principally
that of shoemaking, confectionery, and wood selling. Several
girls are in service and kitchen work. Two mentally defective
boys visited us whilst on leave from their ships. Three physically
defective children are making successful clerks, and one boy is
still a Dentist's assistant, having been at the same position since
1926. One physically defective girl who left in 1924 is teaching
Music, and others are in machinery factories and working successfully
on power machines. The physically defective boys who
have been trained in shoe repairing by the Shaftesbury Society are
making good headway, and in most cases have easily obtained
openings for their work.