SECTION III 



RECORDS 



IN this section I give records obtained from the six different 

 sources already referred to in Section II., namely : 



The Y Emigration Homes. 



The Industrial School for Girls. 



Boys' Industrial School (No. i). 



Boys' Industrial School (No. 2). 



The X Home for Boys. 



Children boarded out by the Glasgow Parish Council. 



Before tabulating the records, I have given some account 

 of the nature and scope of each institution, either by quotations 

 from its annual report, by quotations from the report of the 

 Government Inspector of Industrial Schools, 1910, or from 

 my own personal observation. 



With regard to these institutions I do not, however, attempt 

 to give any detailed account of their organisation, nor to com- 

 pare the relative advantages or disadvantages of different 

 methods of administration. There could be no point in re- 

 capitulating the exhaustive information on this subject to be 

 found both in the Majority and Minority Reports of the Poor 

 Law Commission, 1909. Besides, it seems to me that in the 

 past too much attention has been devoted to statistics having 

 regard to the administration and financial returns of these 

 institutions, and far too little to those human results by which 

 alone, from a practical point of view, their existence can be 

 justified. Therefore, the object of this thesis is to deal entirely 

 with results. 



In reference to my records I wish also to suggest that 

 there are certain conditions or influences which one would 





