The forty-five papers presented in this section dealt with the following subjects:
| Plans for removing the handicaps of the illegitimate without increasing illegitimacy | 8 |
| Recreational needs of children | 7 |
| General protective schemes, plans for extending a sheltering arm over children isolated in the country and for establishing state-wide vigilance | 5 |
| Standards for child care | 4 |
| Reports on the practices of particular localities | 4 |
| The working of children’s courts | 4 |
| Nature and causes of that chronic and excessive troublesomeness which is called juvenile delinquency | 3 |
| Special psychology of children | 3 |
| Best ways of providing for children dependent on the public | 2 |
| The responsibilities of the public to its neglected children | 2 |
| Problems of day nurseries | 2 |
| Health needs of children | 1 |
It requires but a glance at the above list to see how much wider is its range than that of a teachers’ or medical men’s convention. There is nothing to connect the topics—except children. This synthesis of social work in personality which has been already indicated as the “social” element in social work becomes increasingly evident in any review of the conference. As it has proved difficult of definition it will be well to keep it in mind in order that it may take shape during the following review:
II. DELINQUENTS AND CORRECTION.
| Probation and parole | 4 |
| Protective work for young people | 4 |
| Special value of policewomen in protective work for girls | 2 |
| Juvenile delinquency | 2 |
| Runaway and neglected girls | 1 |
| Papers not devoted to a single subject | 17 |
| Including such considerations as the influence of war on criminality, municipal detention for women, the function of a truancy officer, the desirability of creating a public defender and the moral education of training school inmates. |
III. HEALTH.
| Standard of living | 19 |
| Coordination of health services | 5 |
| Special problems of health in war time | 4 |
| Housing | 3 |
| Health work among the foreign-born | 3 |
| Health problems of the Red Cross | 2 |
IV. PUBLIC AGENCIES AND INSTITUTIONS.
| Administrative questions | 15 |
| Effects of prohibition | 3 |
| State pensions for mothers | 3 |
| Pauperism | 2 |
| Control of leprosy, by colonization or otherwise | 2 |
| Such standardization of record keeping as to make the records kept by the several states comparable | 2 |
| Education of the public in their responsibility to public charges, public care for negroes, care of crippled children, care of defectives and delinquents—one paper each | 4 |
V. THE FAMILY.