Excerpt from Report of the Committee of Council on Education in Scotland; With Appendix: 1898-99 Owing to accidental circumstances the number of schools actually inspected was rather smaller than in the revious year, and in consequence the figures in this table - which relate to the schools inspected and not to all those on the annual grant list - show a slight decrease in certain items. During the year the inspectors visited day schools to which annual grants were made, containing departments under separate head teachers, and furnishing accommodation for scholars, or more than one-sixth of the estimated population. There were on the registers of these schools the names of children. 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.