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Boys.
A. B.
Skin dressing and tanning. Veterinary assistants, zoo keepers. Animal
Social and welfare workers (N.S.P.C.C., care and breeding.
R.S.P.C.A., Y.M.C.A., etc.). Machine minders (layers-on in printing).
School attendance officers.
Theatre attendants, liftmen and door porters.
Telephone operators (private firms).
French polishers.
Girls.
A. B.
Florists' work. Box making.
Waitresses and stillroom workers. Envelope folding.
Dairy shops. Show card mounting.
Under nursemaids (no sewing). Some branches brush making.
Light warehouse work (packing). Cork sorting.
Helpers at schools for mothers. Cementing and black bordering.
Helpers at special schools and dining centres. Stockroom work.
Domestic service (place carefully selected). Artificial flower making.
Hotel and club servants (no lifting). Fancy paper workers.
Social and welfare workers (Y.W.C.A., Stationery trade.
N.S.P.C.C., R.S.P.C.A., etc.). Cigar making and tobacco stripping.
Telephone operators (private firms). Upholstery.
Chemical soap and candle factories (wrappers Confectionery.
and packers). Knitting factory.
Skin dressing and tanning. Metal punching.
Wire mattress weaving. Pipe makers and mounters.
French polishing. Machine minders (layers-on in printing).
Return for year ended December 31st, 1926, of the after careers of children
formerly attending special schools for the mentally defective, apart from those
whose names have been forwarded to the Local Control Authority for action under
the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913.
M. F. Total.
1. Number of children born in or subsequent to 1908, who have left
special (mentally defective) schools and who have been on the
books of the association as "after-care" cases 568 488 1,056
2. Number of these who—
(а) Have since died 5 1 6
(b) Are known to be incapable by reason of mental or physical
defect of undertaking employment 27 35 62
(c) Have been subsequently dealt with under M.D. Act 14 12 26
3. Number employed in—
(а) Industrial or manual occupations (i.e., factory work, and
trade or part of a trade) 307 198 505
(b) Agricultural or rural occupations 7 — 7
(c) Domestic occupations (i.e., servants sleeping in or out, lift
boys and those " helping at home" 22 164 186
(d) Commercial (i.e., shop assistants or selling behind a counter),
professional (or Army and Navy), clerical (office boys and
girls) 9 5 14
(e) Blind alley or other precarious occupations (i.e.. van boys,
newsboys, eirand boys or girls selling from a barrow) 86 3 89
4. Judged to be employable but out of work 76 52 128
5. Not seen either at home or employment centre, and position not
known 4 7 11
6. Number whose careers have not been traced or who have left the
neighbourhood 7 7 14
7. No action possible 4 4 8
568 488 1.056
After
careers of
children
formerly
attending
special
schools.
After careers of children formerly attending special schools for the blind, deaf
and crippled children (data furnished by the After Care Association for blind, deaf
and crippled children), for the year ended 31st March, 1926.