“With regard to the term 'remunerative work,' however, it is to be remarked that the person employed is not being paid the standard wage. On the contrary, it is my experience that this is practically never the case, and this is corroborated by the observations of the secretary of the Birmingham center, who says: 'Although some of our cases have been at work for more than ten years, only 34 of the whole number (173) earn as much as 10 s., 2 d., per week. Of these only 6 earn as much as 15 s., and only 2 earn 20 s., which is the highest wages earned.... While it is not very difficult for some of our higher-grade cases to get work when they first leave school, it is almost impossible for them to retain their situations when they get older, and the difference between them and their fellows becomes accentuated. Uncontrolled and often quite improperly cared for, they rapidly deteriorate, the good results obtained by the training and discipline of the special school being under these circumstances distinctly evanescent.... There are few workers over twenty years of age'” (_204_, p. 425, 435). The 1912 report of the London County Council (_144_) covers those who left its special schools for mentally defective children during the years 1908-1912 inclusive. These schools have accommodation for about 1% of the elementary school enrollment. Of 2010 children who left these schools during these five years, and who were still alive, 1357 were employed and 311 more employed when last heard from, a total of 79% employed at last accounts. Those out for five years show about the same proportion employed. This is a more favorable showing and fairly in line with the results of other European help-schools. The average weekly wages of those employed ranged from 4 s. 6 d. for those just out to 10 s. 10 d. for those leaving five years before. A considerable proportion who live at home thus have been meeting their necessary living expenses as the result of this special training and subsequent assistance. Dr. Walter E. Fernald reported to the British Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded concerning the inmates of the institutions for feeble-minded in the United States. These institutions receive a much lower grade of cases on the whole than the local help-schools abroad: (_83_, Vol. VIII, p. 159)