Excerpt from Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Minister of State for Education (1900-1901) The following report is divided into three parts; part I contains a general sketch of affairs transacted by the Department; part II gives a general summary of education throughout the country; and part III relates to educational statistics. The number of children of school age as well as of schools, teachers, kindergartens and libraries, and the amounts of educational funds and school property are given in accordance with investigations made at the end of the statistical year. But the number of the various classed elementary schools both public and private, of public elementary schools in which tuition-fees are levied on children, and of schools provided with school physicians is given in accordance with investigations made on lst March. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.