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days the majority of these young people had 

 lived in houses defective from a sanitary point 

 of view, and in an extremely unsatisfactory 

 environment. The extent and depth of the 

 home-life differed, of course, from one dwelling 

 to another, but in none of them was there any 

 real assistance given to forward the work of the 

 school. 



Mr. Freeman found that three years after 

 leaving school only six of these seventy-one 

 lads had emerged into the position of skilled 

 workmen; forty-four of them were doing un- 

 skilled work, and twenty-one were unemploy- 

 able on account of physical or intellectual 

 inefficiency. 1 Much of the physical weakness 

 under which many of these young people suffer 

 results from the premature decay of their teeth, 

 a state of things we conceive, to be mainly due 

 to the pernicious practice which has sprung up 

 during recent times, of mothers rearing their 

 children on various kinds of artificial food and 

 adulterated cow's milk, in place of feeding 

 them as nature intended from their own 

 breasts. 



1 Boy Life and Labour, by Arnold Freeman, p. 13. 



