Scope and Methods of Investigation 1 1 



These were all the local records I was able to obtain. 



In the case of II., which is a small home, the records were 

 given me from memory by the lady superintendent, and I took 

 them down at her dictation. 



Besides these local records I obtained others from the 

 following sources : 



IV. A Girls' Industrial School in the South of England, 

 from a case-book lent to me by the lady super- 

 intendent. 

 V. A Boys' Industrial School in the North. 



VI. Records of twenty children boarded-out by the Glasgow 

 Parish Council; for which I am indebted to the 

 kindness of Dr. Leslie Mackenzie. 



Besides these records, 295 in all which, with the exception 

 of the 20 procured for me by Dr. Mackenzie, were the result 

 of my own personal investigation I received a certain amount 

 of information, more or less relevant to my subject, from the 

 secretaries of 20 Poor Law Schools, Voluntary Homes, and 

 Certified Industrial Schools, in different parts of the country, 

 of whom I made inquiries. I quote from the information sent 

 me by nine of these in Appendix A. 



My method of collecting the records was as follows : When 

 the books had been placed at my disposal, I opened the 

 Admission Book (in which each child's history is entered) at 

 a date sufficiently remote to allow of a record of available 

 length. I did not, for instance, start from the year 1907, be- 

 cause I knew that by 1912 the child would barely have left the 

 institution, and could not possibly possess any record worthy 

 of the name. An exception to this rule was necessarily made 

 in the case of the Emigration Homes, where the child is sent 

 out either in the same year or the year following its admission ; 

 and I have therefore taken the record from that time onwards. 



Having found a suitable starting-place, I proceeded to take 

 the names in consecutive order. I mention this to show that 



