THE CONDITIONS OF RURAL I.U-E IN I913-914 



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The following perceulages are fouiitl in families of each category : 

 Tabi,e III. — Percentage of Children Placed according to Categories of Trades. 



Trade of 

 child placed 



Children belonging to families of 



farmers 



boys girls 



agricultural 

 labourers 



boys I girls 



artisans, small j 

 tradesmen 



bovs 



girls 



industrial 

 workers 



girls 



employees 



boys girls 



Agriculture . . . . 



Ind. and commerce. 



Professions, civil ser 

 v-ice 



Domestic service . . 

 Total . . 



10.2 

 '^3-3 



10.2 

 16.3 



The real significance of these percentages, which are based on absolute 

 figures, relatively low, and leave out of account that considerable number 

 of children whose trade is unknown, should be estimated with reserve. The 

 enquiry has discovered, with this reservation, that about two thirds of the 

 boys belonging to farmers' and agricultural labourers' families have remain- 

 ed in agriculture, while rather more than a fifth have entered industry or 

 commerce, from 4 to 5 per cent, professions or the civil service, and onl}'' 

 2 per cent, domestic service. Where bo5-s are concerned much the same 

 proportions obtain in the families of agricultural labourers and of farmers, 

 but as regards girls they differ noticeably. The fainilies of journeymen 

 labourers place a larger number of girls in indiistry and domestic service 

 than do the families of farmers. 



§ 4. I)ISABII,ITY IX THE AGRICUETUR.^I, TRADES. 



Information as to disability among the ]Dopulation of the observed dis- 

 tricts was gathered during the enquiry. Every inhabitant was considered 

 to be disabled if he suffered from " a physical or mental infirmity which plac- 

 ed him in a position of inferiority in relation to other inhabitants of liis sex, 

 age and trade ". The enquiry on this point covered 453 districts grouping 

 altogether 355,553 inhabitants according to the census of 1911. In all these 

 districts 1,444 persons between thirteen and sixty years old were found to 

 be suffering from physical or mental infirmity. The average was 53 infirm 

 persons per 10,000 inabitants. This figure comprises 675 persons infirm 

 from birth (19 per 10,000) and 769 (22 per 10,000) whose infirmity was in- 

 curred after birth as the result of an illness, accident or other cause. These 



