STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
LANCASTER
AT
SCHOOL ROOM IN A FAMILY HOUSE.
AGE
ONLY THOSE UNDER 17
CAN BE ADMITTED
RECEIVED LAST YEAR
Between Il and 15
29
Between 15 and 17
6 0
89
Total
Sentence of Court is
necessary to commitment.
56 of last year's commitments, or over two-thirds of the
whole number, were brought
before the courts by parents
on com
anything
plaint of stubbornness, which may mean
light
from a
to a very qrave offence
Only
born of American parents.
31 of the 89 new comers were
general
shiftlessness and excitability
characteristics of the
girls
The
waywardness,
are
but many of them who have been
oppressed by their surroundings, under happier auspices
prove steady and in no wise abnormal.
