+------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | | AGES. | | +---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | |14 Years.|15 Years.|16 Years.|17 Years.|18 Years.| +------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ |England and Wales | 387 | 576 | 668 | 719 | 743 | | | | | | | | |Lancashire | 651 | 751 | 801 | 826 | 837 | | | | | | | | |Blackburn | 841 | 905 | 925 | 931 | 934 | |Burnley | 872 | 899 | 932 | 940 | 938 | |Oldham | 843 | 890 | 910 | 926 | 923 | |Preston | 784 | 887 | 906 | 930 | 916 | |Rochdale | 853 | 904 | 910 | 932 | 932 | | | | | | | | |London | 365 | 625 | 737 | 795 | 820 | | | | | | | | |Birmingham | 643 | 812 | 867 | 890 | 894 | |Bradford | 790 | 858 | 881 | 895 | 896 | |Leeds | 673 | 768 | 815 | 831 | 835 | |Sheffield | 435 | 595 | 660 | 699 | 714 | +------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+---------+ _Printed by_ R. & R. Clark, Limited, _Edinburgh_. FOOTNOTES: [1] _Adolescence_, vol. i. 167. [2] _Report on Physical Deterioration_, 1904, p. 123. [3] _Health and Physique of School Children_, by Arthur Greenwood. P. S. King, London, 1913, 1s. net. [4] _Labour Gazette_, November 1917. [5] See _The Present Position of the Juvenile Labour Problem_, by Frederic Keeling, 1914, 2d.; compare the same author's _Child Labour in the United Kingdom_, P. S. King, 1914. [6] Starr, _The Adolescent Period_, p. 15. [7] Tarbell, _New Ideals in Business_, p. 211. [8] Starr, _The Adolescent Period_. [9] _Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration, Report_, 1904. [10] A lap is a thick layer of cotton fibre wound on a roller in early stage of preparation. [11] See below, p. 33. [12] Cf. the evidence of the British Mission on the output of munitions in France in December 1915, who note the advantage to health accruing from the long dinner hour, generally one and a half hours, and often two hours. (Cd. 8187 of 1916, p. 7.) [13] "Lancashire Women as Cotton-Piecers," _Englishwoman_, June 1914. [14] Keeling, _op. cit._ p. 7. [15] Census, Summary Tables, p. 242. * * * * * TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES Minor punctuation errors repaired. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_