Appendix A 91 



Satisfactory. 



Engaged in Offices, &c 25 23 



,, Works and warehouses ... 31 30 



,, Farms, &c 7 7 



,, Shops 17 14 



Various Occupations 14 13 



In several cases the cause of non-success is indifferent health. 

 Several who have been unsatisfactory at first have done well in 

 another sphere of labour. 



4. REPORT FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF 

 THE PONTELAND COTTAGE HOMES 



These Homes have been open eight and a half years. We have 

 sent out into situations about no boys and 70 girls. Of these, 2 

 boys and 2 girls may be said to have done badly. Of the others, 75 

 per cent, may be said to have done excellently. 



The remainder includes some who ought to have done better ; 

 but it also contains some who have done better than one expected ; 

 and, on examination, I think the 25 per cent, of (only ?) moderately 

 successful cases contains a greater number of those who have done 

 better than expected than of those who have done less well than 

 they should. 



5. DUNDEE BOARDED-OUT CHILDREN 

 From a Report on the Boarding-out of Pauper Children^ 1904. 



During the five years from May i5th, 1899, to May i5th, 1904, 

 the number of boarded-out children was 354, 152 boys and 202 

 girls. Of these, 172 are still chargeable and boarded-out, leav- 

 ing 182 who have ceased to be chargeable. Of the 182, 153 (55 

 boys and 98 girls) are now self-supporting, and, so far as known, 

 doing well. Of the remainder, 23 were either sent to an orphanage 

 owing to the death of guardians, or to hospital owing to illness, and 

 others have died. Two alone are known to have turned out 

 badly. 



Going farther back than these five years, there is only one case of 

 a former boarded-out child who is now chargeable to the parish, 

 the cause being imbecility, and among the boarded-out children 



