Royal Commission on Employment of Women and Children (1869)

Post date: Oct 11, 2019 8:58:52 PM

As reported in Religion and Society in Kent, 1640 -1914 (Page 107).

Many boys, especially in hop-growing districts, are employed by their parents at occaisonal work from the age of infancy.

At Wateringbury the Commission was told how

boys and girls leave school earlier than they used, as there is a greater demand for them.

If boys were made to stay at school after they were eleven years old

it would be a serious inconvenience in farm work, and still more to poor families.