The ages of the children to whom certificates were issued, were as follows:

Age	Boys	Girls	Total
14 years old	1115	605	1720
15 years old	332	298	630
16 years old	9	199	208
17 years old		91	91
18 years old		2	2
	1456	1195	2651

Of the above: 574 were fatherless, 182 were motherless, 87 were orphans, 143 were negroes, 50 were foreigners.

In addition to these regular certificates, 63 over-age certificates were issued to children who were already beyond the age limit, but whose employers preferred to be absolutely certain of being within the law.

An analysis of the grades from which children leave school to go to work, shows:

Boys	Girls	Total
27	38	65 were from lst and 2nd year High School
1ll	176	287 were from the 8th grade
182	218	400 were from the 7th grade
322	279	601 were from the 6th grade
375	279	647 were from the 5th grade
290	148	438 were from the 4th grade
91	53	144 were from the 3rd grade
37	5	42 were from, the 2nd grade
14	3	17 were from the lst grade
7	3	10 had no schooling at all.

	Boys	Girls	Total
From Parochial Schools were	271	233	504
From Private Schools were	51	33	84
From Public Schools were	1127	926	2053
	1449	1192	2641

One encouraging fact gleaned from a study of these records is that while that the greatest,number of these certificates were issued to children from the fifth grade, as they were in 1910 when the records were first kept, the next greatest number for the last three years, have been issued to children from the sixth grade, instead of from the fourth, as they were in previous years. On the other hana, of the ten absolute illiterates, only two were negroes, the other seven, as well as most of those with only first, second or third grade education were white children from neighboring states, or from our ovat sparsely settled parishes. Is it not time for Louisiana to protect herself from an increase in illiteracy, by raising the requirements, at least in this city, for obtaining employment certificates? Under our present system of issuing the certificates to the child instead of to the employer, that clause of our compulsory education law, which requires children between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, to be at work or in school ', is impossible to enforce, since this certificate in the hands of the ebild protects him against being returned to school by an attendance officer, he is either "just out of a job" or "going