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and steady work, and that invaluable training of accustoming 

 the eye and the hand to work together. 



The sanitary requirements are the same in both cases; but at 

 the worst the half-timer escapes from his dirty companions and 

 dirty school room atmosphere in half the time. In places where 

 there is an active and educated public opinion dirty children in 

 dirty school rooms have ceased to be tolerated. A lavatory at 

 the entrance is not very expensive. 



Statistics have not only shewn what I have stated, but the 

 proportion of crime is strikingly favourable to the half-time 

 schools. Having brought the children so far on passing through 

 the school standards, they would be eager and ripe to attend 

 continuation schools or classes to fit them to join the Technical 

 classes so as to benefit more fully by their teaching, and it is 

 thought that the present want of numbers would speedily be 

 changed to an overflow. 



I have ventured to bring before you at perhaps some length 

 the working of Industrial Institutions in order to show what 

 has been achieved, and that their success justifies the public 

 expenditure upon them. But I might expose myself to the 

 reproach of being a visionary and a mere theorist were I to 

 refrain from suggesting how the Industrial system could be 

 applied in connection with elementary schools outside, having 

 due regard to economy as well as efficiency. First of all, as the 

 pupils would be divided into two divisions the accommodation 

 for school classes might be reduced by one half, while sheds 

 or light buildings would require to be built as workshops. 

 Part of the teaching staff could be reduced and labour in- 

 structors employed in their stead. The children should be 

 made to attend school clean both in clothes and person. In 

 poor schools a lavatory should be provided and children made 

 to wash before associating together. Thorough ventilation is 

 indispensible. Children should be frequently inspected and 

 any child found with any infectious complaint should be sent 

 home and the house in which it lived dealt with by a Health 

 Officer. 



The proceeds of the children's industry should be divided 



