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(9) Army Schools for the children of non-commissioned officers and 
men; these are under the Director of Military Education. 
(10) Training Ships for the Mercantile Marine.—These (save 
reformatory and industrial-school ships) are usually certified and 
inspected by the Board of Education, while they are also answerable 
to any body of Guardians from whom they may have received boys. 
In certain cases inspection in seamanship is conducted by the Admiral- 
Superintendent of the Naval Reserves. Reformatory and industrial- 
school ships are inspected by officers appointed by the Home Office, 
and also in seamanship by the Admiral-Superintendent of the Naval 
Reserves. 
(11) Private-Adventure Elementary Schools.—These are very few 
and of small size; they are usually survivals which haye been recognised 
by the local authority. 
(12) The Lunatic, Idiot, and Imbecile Asylums contain a number 
of children who are not educable in the ordinary sense of the term. 
They are controlled and inspected by the Commissioners in Lunacy. 
(13) To complete the review, mention must be made of children 
who ought to be but are not found on the roll of one or other of the 
above, such as children sick at home, others who are at home only 
because they have evaded the eye of the school attendance officer, 
and others, again, like the caravan and canal-boat children, who are 
difficult to fix because their home itself is migratory, but whose educa- 
tion is governed by section 118 of the Children Act, 1908, and the 
Canal Boats Act of 1877. 
Report. 
This Report is concerned with the schools of paragraphs 5 and 7— 
that is, with institutions which receive children of the same class as 
those in Industrial Schools and with children under the Poor Law. 
There was some difficulty in finding the schools, but ultimately 
lists were obtained from the Local Government Board, the Board of 
Education, and the Charity Organisation Society. The remainder were 
taken from ‘ The Charity Digest,’ and from the ‘ Classified List of 
Child-Saving Institutions ’ published by the Reformatory and Refuge 
Union. As regards the Poor-Law schools it was stated by the Local 
Government Board that it would be extremely difficult to give a list 
of the varigus establishments in which indoor pauper children are 
housed ; the printed list supplied by them is of ‘ Schools ahd Institu- 
tions certified by the Poor Law Board and the Local Government Board 
under the statute 25 and 26 Vict., c. 43.’ Circulars with a covering 
letter (see Appendix) were sent to 541 institutions. In each case a 
stamped directed envelope was enclosed for reply. 
Of these 541 circulars 335 came back. It was evident from some 
of the answers that many of the schools were suspicious of the motive 
of the inquiry. One gentleman wrote: ‘I refuse to acknowledge the 
right of this or of any other Society to ask these questions, or to inter- 
fere in any way with schools charitable or otherwise, to the maintenance 
of which it does not contribute.’ Two ladies refused information in 
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