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expect in the majority of cases to produce unsatisfactory or 

 doubtful results. These are : 



(a) Mental defect. 



(b) Admission at an age when it is too late to counteract 

 the effect of previous environment. 



(c) In cases of " boarding out," or apprenticeship in 

 Canada : 



1. An unsatisfactory new home. 



2. A possible bias on the part of the employer who 



makes the report. 



3. The fact that the case is reported on by more than 



one visitor. . 



4. A constant change of homes. 



(d) A return to the original environment. 



THE Y. EMIGRATION HOMES. 



" These homes were established in 1872 to save boys and 

 girls from vicious, pauperising, and criminal surroundings. . . . 

 The method adopted is that of permanently removing them 

 from the environment amid which they were born and bred, 

 and transferring them by means of emigration to entirely 

 different and hopeful associations. In a word, they emigrate 

 children from a slum to a Canadian farm. 



" The emigration system fights heredity by new environ- 

 ment. The children are led out of temptation and delivered 

 from the evil of their associations. They lived in what are 

 well called ' black areas,' in an atmosphere of filth and drink, 

 of starvation, overcrowding, and open immorality. They knew 

 evil without a chance of knowing good, and would join natur- 

 ally in drunkenness and vice without dreaming of a possible 

 alternative. 



" Each year 1 30 children or more are taken from slum life 

 to country homes in Canada. . . . Over 4200 children have 

 been taken to Canada from our Emigration Homes, and have 

 been placed in the main on farms where the conditions of their 

 lives are precisely opposite to those of slums." 1 



1 Annual Report, 1910. 



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