---+-------+---------+--------+----------+-------
| Below | Fifth | Sixth | Seventh | Eighth | Graduate | High
| Fifth | Grade | Grade | Grade | Grade | Per | School
| Grade | Per | Per | Per | Per | cent. | Per
| Per | cent. | cent. | cent. | cent. | | cent.
| cent. | | | | | |
-----+-------+-------+-------+---------+--------+----------+-------
| | | | | | |
1902 | 8 | 19 | 35 | 26 | 2 | 10 | 0
| | | | | | |
1903 | 11 | 18 | 19 | 29 | 6 | 15 | 2
| | | | | | |
1904 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 25 | 16 | 25 | 2
| | | | | | |
1905 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 19 | 4
| | | | | | |
1906 | 8 | 16 | 20 | 23 | 17 | 13 | 3
| | | | | | |
1907 | 7 | 10 | 25 | 23 | 15 | 18 | 2
| | | | | | |
1908 | 4 | 15 | 26 | 20 | 13 | 16 | 6
| | | | | | |
-----+-------+-------+-------+---------+--------+----------+-------

During 1908, 143 older women were admitted to a special workroom opened
for the "unemployed."

III. Filing of working papers is required of girls under sixteen.

1. No girl under sixteen can work in New York unless she has an
Employment Certificate issued by the Board of Health, and then only from
8 A.M. to 5 P.M., or for eight hours daily.

2. The public school last attended by the girl is responsible for her
until she is sixteen, or has her working papers, or is dismissed to
another school. If dismissed to Manhattan Trade School her attendance
there cannot be made compulsory, and she may attend a few days and then
leave and work illegally. Our facilities for following up such cases are
limited. With her working papers on file we know she is not evading the
law, and can dismiss her to work if she is not a success in trade lines
of training.

3. Exceptions: Lack of proper birth record, on account of foreign birth
or failure to make record of it by officials, may p