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Mentally Defective—
One Employed at Leathercloth Factory.
One Employed at Button Factory.
One Employed at Saw Mills.
One Employed at Dye Works.
One Employed at Sweet Stall.
One Employed as Packer.
Five Removed from Area.
One Returned to Ordinary School.
Three Unfit for School.
One Deceased.
Mr. J. H. Jacques, the Committee's Architect, reports on
improvements carried out during the year at the School as follows :
An additional cloak room and lavatory was added at the
School and some new furniture provided.

Miss Gardner reports :—
There have been two After Care Committees during the year.
No child leaving at the age limit of 16 years has been placed at
work this year. This is partly due to the great present trade
depression, and partly to the fact that the mentally defective
children were of a low grade on the whole. One physically
defective boy has continued his studies at the "Livingstone
Institute" and has recently taken examinations in commercial
work.
Some children leaving us at 14 years, with permission of
the School Medical Officer, have fared better, but we fear even
these in many cases are merely "blind-alley" jobs, for our
children are so often turned away when they reach 16 years.
Municipal Employment seems the only possible future cure
for this general unemployment of our own Defective Children,
upon whom the Borough has spent so much.
We are glad to note that seven physically defective children
this year have so benefited by hospital and school care that they
have been found "fit" to return to work with their normal fellows
in the Elementary Schools, and we hear good reports of their
progress generally.
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