“At the Conference of After-Care Committees held in Bristol on October 22, 1908, a paper read by Sir William Chance, Chairman of the National Association for the Feeble-Minded, dealing with the reports of the After-Care Committees of Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester, Liverpool, London, Northampton, Oldham and Plymouth. The combined statistics from the nine centers showed that 22% of those who had attended special schools for the mentally defective were in regular work, and 6.8% had irregular work.... To illustrate the necessity for continuous supervision and the futility of temporary care, we cannot do better than quote the records of the Birmingham After-Care Committee, as embodied in their report for 1908, after seven years work. It was found that, 'out of 308 feeble-minded persons who have left school and are still alive, only 19.8% are earning wages at all, and only 3.9% are earning as much as 10 s. per week'” (_181_). Tredgold summarizes other data on this question of industrial success as follows: “We may next turn to the reports of 'After-Care' Committees regarding feeble-minded (moron) pupils of the special schools. In _London_ the proportion of pupils known to be in 'good or promising' employment was 37.5%. Two years previously it had been 45.7%, and Sir George Newman, the Chief Medical Officer to the Board of Education, attributes the falling off to two causes—_firstly_, insufficient after-care; and _secondly_, the two additional years. He remarks: 'The longer the test the more severe it is.' In _Birmingham_, the 'After-Care' Committee compiled information regarding 932 cases which had passed through the schools during the previous ten years. Of these, excluding the normal and dead, 272, or 34%, were engaged in remunerative work. At _Liverpool_, of 712 children passing through the hands of the 'After-Care' Committee during a period of six years, 85, or 11.9%, were doing remunerative work. “Finally we may refer to some figures concerning 'After-Care' work compiled by Sir William Chance from the returns of the National Association for the Feeble-Minded. These were based upon an inquiry made of sixteen centers of the Association, and referred to a total of 3,283 persons. Of this number, 798 were doing remunerative work, 89 were 'doing work, but not reported;' 202 were useful at home; and 941 were returned as 'useless members of society.' If we exclude 340 who were transferred to normal schools (not being feeble-minded), we have 27% engaged in remunerative work.