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children in the Winstanley Road and Cork Street schools. The tests concerned
(1) the knowledge of the animal from which certain forms of meat are obtained,.
and (2) the power of telling the time supposing the hands of the clock are reversed.
With the "animal and meat" test the children were given small slips of paper
with the numbers 1, 2 and 3 written on them. The children were then asked to
write one answer and one answer only against such number. They were then told
to "write down the name of the animal which gives us" 1. Beef. 2. Mutton. 3.
Bacon. Each question was asked twice. With the "clock changed hands" test
the children were asked to try and picture the clock. Some further explanation
was given, then they were told to "fancy the time with the hands changed places."
Again only one reply to each of the three times set was required, viz., 12-20, 1-10,
and 10 to 10. The tables appended show the percentages of successes in the various
classes and ages.
Age.
Number
tested.
Percentage number of children passed.
Animal tests.
Changed hands tests.
Beef. Mutton. Bacon. 12—20.1—10. 10 to 10.
Boys.
14 35 80 71 68 63 46 54
25 92 92 100 84 60 72
13 35 80 71 68 63 46 54
56 94 84 89 82 71 79
12 40 73 43 63 45 30 37
38 75 56 72 70 45 61
11 38 66 45 55 32 26 32
38 82 63 82 63 61 56
10 35 66 46 49 31 20 26
45 80 71 82 38 34 43
9 30 67 60 53 33 23 20
36 25 36 50 36 19 25
8 14 43 30 57 7 0 7
16 50 44 16 12 12 37
Girls.
14 7 100 42 71 100 28 71
13 47 85 j 46 74 78 42 70
12 39 74 43 79 76 56 58
11 33 78 36 75 72 54 60
10 44 70 40 70 54 45 52
9 28 64 17 78 53 28 46
8 30 36 2616 1 166 10
It is interesting to note that beef is the best known and that bacon is better
known than mutton. The relation to age was not very close and suggests that the
test is one only applicable to children of 13 years and over. The "changed hands"
test showed a more distinct relation to age, but the results indicate that it could
only be employed for those at the end of the school period.
Epilepsy.
The school doctors are instructed to refer any well-marked cases ol epilepsy
(especially those in which school attendance is interfered with) to the Head Office
for consideration for a colony. The following report on seventy-three of the cases
so referred has been made by Dr. Fairfield:—
Returned to Day School (Elementary or M.D.) 25
Colony recommended 41
Consent given by parents 24
Consent refused by parents 17 (invalided)
Unfit for Day School or Colony 7
(Too old, too young or deteriorating rapidly) 73
Admitted to Residential Colony in 1926 27
On waiting list December, 1926 17