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94
Male. Female. Total.
2. Number who—
(а) have since died 5 5 10
(б) who are known to be incapable by reason of mental or
physical defect of undertaking employment 42 51 93
(c) are in attendance at an institution for further education 4 — 4
(d) are in other institutions 21 19 40
(e) were notified and placed under " supervision" 14 2 16
3. Number employed in—
(а) Industrial or manual occupations (i.e., factory work, any
trade or part of a trade) 340 296 636
(b) Agricultural or rural occupations 7 — 7
(c) Domestic occupations (i.e., servants sleeping in or out, lift
boys, and those " helping at home") 40 245 285
(d) Commercial (i.e., shop assistants or selling behind a counter),
professional (or Army and Navy), clerical (office boys or
girls) 52 11 63
(e) Blind alley or other precarious occupations (i.e., van-boys,
newsboys, errand boys or girls, selling from a barrow) 219 18 237
(f) Judged to be employable but out of work owing to industrial
crisis 296 182 478
(g) Not seen either at home or employment centre, and position
not known 212 123 335
4. Number whose after-careers have not been traced or who have left
the neighbourhood 48 43 91
5. No action possible 12 6 18
Total 1,312 1,001 2,313
Delinquency
in relationship
to
mental
deficiency.1
In continuance of the study of delinquent children commenced last year by
Dr. F. C. Shrubsall and Dr. A. C. Williams, a comparison has been made between
mental status of children in Special Schools and those charged with various
delinquencies and sent to Special Industrial Schools. Most of these latter had
previously attended Special Schools. The results are shown in the following
table :—
Average mental age.
Chronological Non-delinquent Delinquent
age. defectives. defectives.
8 5.7 6.0
9 6.1 6.2
10 6.6 7.2
11 7.1 7.0
12 7.5 8.1
13 8.0 8.1
14 8.4 8.7
15 8.9 9.2
It thus appears that delinquents shew a slightly greater average intelligence than
the general mass of day Special School children.
From data derived from a study of adult delinquents under the Mental
Deficiency Act the following table would appear to show that emotional stability
and working capacity have relatively less relation to mental age than to one another.
Women. Men.
Average mental Average mental
Emotional stability. age. age.
Stable — 8.1
Slightly or at times unstable 7.8 8.6
Moderately unstable 8.4 8.3
Very unstable 9.1 8.4
Employability.
Unemployable 8.7 8.1
Occasional employment 8.7 8.7
Regular employment 8.6 8.3
Still at or just left school 8.5 8.0