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Employment of Children and Young Persons.
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG
PERSONS.
Conditions of the employment of children and young
persons.—Bye-laws, based on the model set of the Home
Office, under the Employment of Children Act, 1918,
came into force on the 5th January, 1921. These
prescribe the conditions under which children (under
14 years of age) can be employed, and under which
young persons (between 14 and 16 years of age) can
be employed in street trading.
The principal employments in which children are
engaged in Ealing are delivering papers, milk and bread,
doing domestic work and acting as messenger boys.
Those in which young persons engage in street trading
are chiefly selling papers and hawking fruit and
vegetables.
All employed children are medically examined at
least once a year to determine if they are being adversely
affected by their occupation. The head-teachers have
been requested to inform the School Medical Officer
at once of any children who they consider are being
adversely affected by their employment out of school
hours. During the year 124 boys and 8 girls were
medically examined. Five boys were found to be
adversely affected, and their employment was discontinued.
No information was received during the year from
the head-teachers regarding any children supposed to
be adversely affected by employment out of school
hours.
All young persons, before being employed in street
trading, are medically examined, and their condition re-