Excerpt from Thirty-First Annual Report of the Minister of State for Education for the Thirty-Sixth Statistical Year of Meiji (1903-4) The number of children of school age as well as of schools, teachers, kindergartens, conductors, and libraries, and the amounts of educational funds and school property are given in accordance with investigation made at the end of the statistical year. But the number of many-classed elementary schools both public and private, of public elementary schools in which tuition fees are levied on children, and of school physicians is given in accordance with investigation made on the tst 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.