Hare: A Study of Handicapped Children 



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Tho the numbers of this orthopedic selection are small, 

 yet the mere existence of any figures at all accounts for a few 

 of the multitude of cripples and otherwise disabled children. 

 The country-wide agitation against child labor and for child 

 welfare is helping everywhere to ameliorate conditions for 

 children and to raise the age standard of employment. 



The employment question has scarcely been touched upon 

 in this study of 150 crippled children, because low average 

 age has excluded all but 5 cases from consideration from this 

 point of view. The following cases have records of employ- 

 ment: 



Sek 



Age 



Physical 

 Diagnosis 



Occupation 



Wage 



Girl (colored) 

 Girl (colored) 



Boy 



Boy 



Boy 



Amputation of 

 leg 



Amputation of 

 leg 



Osteomyelitis of 

 hip 



Clubfoot 



Scoliosis 



Running elevator 



Running elevator 



Farm hand 



Grocery delivery 



boy 



Peddling and 



begging 



$20 per month. 



$82 per month. 



$32 per month. 



$6 per week. 



$5 to $25 per 

 week. 



Case R. W. 6,109. This case is the last one mentioned 

 above, a crippled boy known all over Indianapolis because of 

 his begging and peddling propensities. He should not legiti- 

 mately be classed among the wage-earning but his case is cited 

 to point out the mistake in neglecting both to offer and en- 

 force some form of vocational training for such crippled chil- 

 dren. This boy belongs to a neglected, ignorant family of the 

 most destitute type. His father recently deserted the fam- 

 ily but the court forces him to pay a certain regular amount 

 for its support. The boy himself is badly hunchbacked from 

 curvature of the spine. He has been brought up in Juvenile 

 Court for truancy and for stealing, and he is known to almost 

 every social agency in town. Every effort has been made to 

 get him a job and urge him to stick to it; but since he has 



