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time at my disposal would be better employed in seeking 

 material elsewhere. 



Before leaving the subject of local Poor Law Institutions, 

 I might mention that with regard to " Children Boarded Out " 

 by a certain Union, I received the following information from 

 the secretary : 



" The Guardians of this Union intend to keep records of 

 the after-careers of the children boarded out by them. 



" No child has yet been placed out, who has been boarded 

 out by the Guardians, either within or beyond the Union. 

 The eldest child at present boarded-out is just 14 years old." 



Of the fifteen " Homes, Schools, Orphanages, &c. for 

 Children," whose names are supplied in the "List of Charities 

 and Charitable Institutions and Societies " compiled by the 

 local Charity Organisation Society, I wrote to eight. Of the 

 remaining seven, two stipulate that the children shall be of 

 " good character or respectable parentage," and are therefore 

 of no use for the purpose of this inquiry; two prefer them 

 to be over fifteen years of age ; one keeps whatever records it 

 may have at headquarters ; and the other two did not appear 

 to be specially suitable for my purpose. 



Of those eight to which I wrote, I visited and obtained 

 records from three. Of the remainder, one Catholic associa- 

 tion forwarded me a copy of its Annual Report. This con- 

 tained a number of short records and a list of skilled trades 

 to which boys had been apprenticed. I have placed this list 

 in Appendix A. The others, although they appeared to 

 keep in touch with their children as far as possible, had not 

 the time to keep written records, with the exception of one 

 institution where the superintendent kept them in shorthand. 



The three whose records I investigated were : 



I. The Y. Children's Emigration Homes, supported by 



private charity. 



II. The X. Home for Boys, also a private charity. 

 III. A Certified Industrial School. 



