IV. Remedial Measures
[153]. The Diseases of Children, by Henry Ashby, M.D., and G. A. Wright, B.A., pp. 14 et seq.
[154]. Idem.
See also the article on The Shameful Misuse of Wealth, by Cleveland Moffett, in Success, March, 1905.
[155]. See, e.g., the letters from several leading physicians on this subject in Success, April, 1905 (Appendix C).
[156]. Cleveland Moffett, op. cit.
[157]. Idem.
[158]. Hygiène de la Femme Enceinte. De la Puericulture Intrauterine, par Dr. A. Pinard. Xe Congrès International d’Hygiène, etc., Paris, 1900, p. 417.
Factory Employment and Childbirth, by Adelaide M. Anderson, in Dangerous Trades, edited by Professor Thomas Oliver.
Is the High Infantile Death-rate due to the Occupation of Married Women? by Mrs. F. J. Greenwood, Sanitary Inspector for Sheffield. Reprinted from the Englishwoman’s Review, 1901.
In Germany, it is worth remembering, the working woman who is compelled to cease work owing to the birth of a child receives a sum equal to half her weekly wage.—See Infant Mortality and Factory Labor, by Dr. George Reid, in Dangerous Trades, p. 89.
[159]. Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration.
[160]. The Social Unrest, by John Graham Brooks, p. 292.
[161]. Vide leaflet issued by the Child Labor Committee of New York.
[162]. How to Save the Babies of the Tenements, by Virginia M. Walker, in Charities, August 5, 1905.
[163]. Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration, vol. ii, pp. 442–450.
The Nutrition of the Infant, by Ralph M. Vincent, M.D.
The Problem of the Milk Supply, by F. Lawson Dodd, M.R.C.S.
Infantile Mortality and Infants’ Milk Depots, by G. F. McCleary, M.D.
[164]. Projet pour le Contrôle Hygiènique de l’Approvisionnement du Lait Municipal, by George W. Goler, M.D.
But a Thousand a Year, by George W. Goler, M.D., reprinted from Charities.
[165]. The School Child, the School Nurse, and the Local School Board, by Elsie Clews Parsons, Charities, September 23, 1905.
[166]. Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration, vol. i, p. 47.
[167]. Idem.
[168]. The figures are quoted from a speech by Mr. Homer Folks, at the first annual meeting of the Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, held at Washington, D.C., May 18–19, 1905.
[169]. Virginia M. Walker, op. cit.
[170]. Idem.
[171]. Ralph M. Vincent, M.D., op. cit., also evidence given before the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration.
Virginia M. Walker, op. cit.
[172]. This paragraph is taken, with slight changes, from my paper on The Problem of the Underfed Children in our Public Schools, in the Independent, May 11, 1905.
[173]. See the Official Report of the National Labor Conference on the State Maintenance of Children, Held at the Guildhall, London, etc.
[174]. See, for instance, the evidence given by Mr. John Tweedy, F.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P., President of the Royal College of Surgeons and of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, before the Interdepartmental Committee.
[175]. Physical Efficiency in Children, by Sir James Crichton Browne, in the Report of the International Congress for the Welfare and Protection of Children, London, 1902.
See also the Reports of the Interdepartmental Committee and the Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), for descriptions of the systems adopted in various European cities.
The Medical Inspection of School Children, by W. L. Mackenzie, M.A., M.D.
For a very suggestive, but technical, account of a system of medical inspection adopted in Dundee, Scotland, see the Report of Investigation into Social Conditions, published by the Dundee Social Union,—Part I, The Medical Inspection of School Children.
[176]. The Heritage of the Hungry, by Robert Hunter.
[177]. Special Reports on Educational Subjects, issued by the (English) Board of Education.
[178]. Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), Report.
[179]. Idem.
[180]. Poverty, by Robert Hunter, p. 259.
[181]. The importance of attending to the teeth of school children has been sadly overlooked in the United States. In some of our cities, notably Rochester, N.Y., the attention of the medical inspectors of the schools has been specially directed to the teeth, with important results. See, for instance, the paper by Dr. Goler on Some General Tuberculosis Problems, in the New York State Journal of Medicine, August, 1905.
[182]. Bulletin of the U. S. Bureau of Labor, No. 59, p. 309.
[183]. The Field before the National Child Labor Committee, by Homer Folks, in Charities, October 1, 1904.
Child Labor and the Schools, by Florence Lucas Sanville, in Charities, August 26, 1905.
Illiterate Children in the Great Industrial States, by Florence Kelley, reprinted from Charities.
[184]. Child Labor.—The Street, by Ernest Poole.
Children in American Street Trades, by Myron E. Adams, in the Annals of the American Academy, May, 1905.
The Employment of Children, with Special Reference to Street Trading, by Robert Peacock, Chief Constable of Manchester (England). A Paper read at the Third International Congress for the Welfare and Protection of Children, London, 1902.—Report, pp. 191–202.
See also the evidence given by various witnesses before the Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland).
[185]. Education and the Larger Life, by C. Hanford Henderson, p. 142.