104 THE RIGHT TO BE WELI; BORN 



all average communities, a large number of 

 defective children with troubles of the eye, 

 ear, or defective throat, body or brain. 

 These are not to be considered in the fig- 

 ures to be given. These defectives that 

 come under the School Superintendent's ob- 

 servation will run close to two per cent, and, 

 when the inmates of the asylums, jails, 

 homes, retreats and penitentiaries are add- 

 ed to the gross congenital defective chil- 

 dren, we have about six per cent, of all our 

 children who are so far below normal that 

 they become a burden to the public or so- 

 ciety. 



Superintendent Maxwell states that in 

 New York City the average promotions for 

 the years of 1914 and 1915 was 88.8%. 



There were, in the grades from lA and 

 B, to 8A and B, inclusive, 640,534 children, 

 (not counting defectives and irregulars), 

 and of the number 582,909 were promoted 

 June 30, 1915. As above stated, this is 

 88.8% as an average for each of all the 

 grades. It is not so alarming to find that 

 11.2% of the children of each grade are sub- 

 normal or unable to make the next grade 



