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I went through 40 records, taking those of 20 boys and 

 20 girls. Of these 40 



28 were entirely satisfactory. 

 ^ I 6 f> ir S / were doubtful or only fairly satisfactory. 



4 { 2 boys } were unsatisfactor y- 



Comparing these results with the " Canadian Statistics for 

 1910," previously given, it will be seen that my proportion 

 of unsatisfactory or doubtful cases is somewhat greater. But 

 in the Canadian statistics there is no mention of doubtful or 

 only fairly satisfactory cases ; and as in so large a number it 

 is practically certain that some such must have occurred, it is 

 probable that, not being definitely unsatisfactory, they were 

 classed with the satisfactory cases. 



The average record of 37 of the 40 cases of which I have 

 taken down the dates is 6.1 years. 



These records differ considerably from the remainder of my 

 records, being kept from the year of emigration to Canada, as 

 compared with, in the other cases, the year when institutional 

 training ceases, or the year when children cease to be 

 " boarded out." 



It will be seen that many of these children are sent out 

 when quite young, so that during the earlier years the record 

 compares rather with that of the child at school than with that 

 of the boy or girl who has started out in life. The average 

 age to which the records quoted are kept is only 17.5 years. 



I am aware that on these grounds the records may not 

 appear so satisfactory as those of other Homes, where the 

 records are kept to a much later age. On the other hand, it is 

 during those precious ft formative years between 15 and 20," 

 to which I have already referred, that the majority of these 

 children give proof of being satisfactorily employed. 



The records all start from 1902; and for obvious reasons 



