retarded | 9| 15| 37| 31| 26| 23| 13| 3| 157| | | | | | | | | | | Enrollment| 23| 34| 51| 58| 44| 37| 25| 15| 287| street | | | | | | | | | | workers | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Per cent |39.1|44.1|72.5|53.4| 59|62.1| 52| 20| 54.7| ==========+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+====+======+======= A comparison between the table given in the report of the Toledo Board of Education for 1911 showing the total number of retarded children in the elementary schools, and a similar table compiled from the figures for the street-trading children in four Toledo schools given on pages 154 and 155, is most significant. The retardation among the total number of pupils enrolled is to be found on page 154.[110] The corresponding figures for the 287 street-trading children in the four schools are to be found on page 155. It is especially noteworthy that the percentage of retardation among the street workers is very much greater than among the total number of pupils, in every grade except the eighth, while for all the grades it is 17.8 per cent greater. This becomes all the more significant when it is remembered that the figures for the total enrollment include the street workers; hence the excess of retardation among the latter makes the showing of the former worse than if they were excluded, and consequently the comparison on page 155 does not appear to be as unfavorable to the street workers as it is in reality. On consideration of the figures in the tables on pages 154 and 155, the conclusion is inevitable that street work greatly promotes the retardation of school children. There are, of course, other factors which contribute to bring about this condition of backwardness, such as poverty, malnutrition and mental deficiency, but there can be no doubt that the evil effects of street work are in large measure responsible for the poor showing made in the schools by the children who follow such occupations.