With woman’s interest awakened to every need of modern municipal life and her mind trained to do high and efficient public service, may we not look forward with firmer confidence to the day when Mayor Baker’s dream shall be fulfilled:
“The patriot’s dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.”
INDEX
- Abatement law, 109
- Abattoir, municipal, 73
- Administration, 319
- Aid, first, 95;
- legal, 279
- Aliens. See Immigrants and Assimilation of races
- Art, in schools, 12;
- municipal, 293
- Assimilation of races, 170
- Associations. See Leagues and Women’s clubs
- Babies. See Child welfare and Infant mortality
- Baths, public, 82
- Blind, education of, 21
- Budget, city, 88, 96, 166, 332, 337
- Child welfare, better baby contests and, 59;
- children born out of wedlock, 68;
- delinquency and, 281, 282;
- elements of, 65;
- ice and, 64;
- milk and, 59;
- mothers’ pensions and, 252;
- social service and, 226, 233.
- See also Exhibits
- Children’s bureau, 57
- Civil service, in general, 335;
- in public welfare work, 239
- City planning, 218, 293
- Clean-up crusades, 84
- Clinics, dental, 48;
- medical, 270;
- psychopathic, 276;
- tuberculosis, 48
- Clubs, women’s, and assimilation of aliens, 196;
- and child welfare, 65;
- and civic improvement, 303;
- and clean-up, 85;
- and fire protection, 287;
- and food, 74;
- and garbage, 88;
- and housing, 208;
- and juvenile delinquency, 269;
- and laundries, 83;
- and milk, 62;
- and prison reform, 285;
- and public baths, 82;
- and sanitation, 87;
- and smoke, 92;
- and the social evil, 97;
- and social service, 224;
- and vital statistics, 57;
- and water, 79
- Commissions, charity, 232;
- food, 77;
- housing, 206;
- immigration, 197;
- mothers’ pensions, 251–253;
- playground, 136;
- recreation, 165
- Corrections, 259
- Crime. See Corrections
- Cripples, education of, 16
- Dance halls, 139
- Defectives, education of, 17;
- marriage and parenthood of, 69;
- and probation, 264
- Delinquents, literature on, 249.
- See also Corrections, Juvenile courts, and Recreation
- Democracy, in health, 46;
- in schools, 39;
- political, 321;
- social and industrial, 182
- Detention homes, 261
- Disease, contagious, 48;
- occupational, 50
- Dispensaries, 48
- Domestic science, among foreign women, 177;
- in schools, 11, 12
- Drama, in general, 152;
- in schools, 12;
- in suppression of social evil, 124
- Drugs, pure, 78
- Education, 1–44;
- associations in, 40;
- curricula in, 11;
- equal pay for teachers, 3;
- equal, 3;
- experiments in, 10–39;
- influence in methods of, 4, 6, 9;
- in school administration, 6;
- women teachers and, 3;
- libraries and, 43.
- See each succeeding chapter for education of public in special fields.
- Employment, Boston Bureau of, 28
- Enforcement of laws, with respect to food, 73;
- with respect to health, 96;
- with respect to smoke, 91;
- with respect to vice, 114;
- with respect to housing, 216;
- with respect to good government, 320
- Federations. See Leagues and Clubs
- Finance, city, 332
- Fire, clean-up crusades and, 84;
- protection from, 287
- First aid, 95
- Flies, 72, 92
- Food, pure, 70
- Foreigners, education of, 22, 171;
- protection of, 177
- Fourth of July demonstrations, 156
- Garbage, 88
- Gardens, school, 23
- Government, 319
- Health, civic improvement and, 293;
- housing and, 52;
- public, 45–96
- Homes, and sex hygiene, 128;
- family visitation for health, 51;
- in mill towns, 249;
- homelessness, 249;
- of negroes, 210;
- pre-natal visiting of, 60;
- for working women, 201
- Hospitals, 47;
- social service work of, 51
- Housing, 199–219;
- health and, 52;
- literature on, 249;
- and mothers’ pensions, 252;
- of negroes, 187
- Hygiene, and housing, 218;
- opposition to sex, 113;
- sex, 15, 48
- Ice, 63
- Immigrants, legal protection of, 279.
- See Assimilation of races
- Infant mortality, district nurse and, 55;
- federal bureau and, 57;
- ice and, 63;
- milk and, 59;
- poverty and, 61;
- official control of, 56;
- of illegitimate children, 68;
- study of, 58
- Inspectors, of fire peril, 290;
- of food, 71;
- of housing, 204;
- of sanitation, 86
- Investigations, of prisons, 278.
- See also Surveys
- Judges, women as, 273
- Juvenile courts, resemblance of, to truant school, 22;
- work for establishment of, 268
- Juvenile leagues, housing, 216.
- See also Leagues
- Kindergartens, 10
- Labor, attitude of settlements toward, 182;
- of the child, 41;
- and child welfare, 100;
- and city government, 320;
- conditions of, 94;
- and fire protection, 287;
- food of workers, 74;
- immigrant and, 170;
- immigrant girl and, 171;
- in times of strike, 178;
- literature of, 248;
- and mothers’ pensions, 252;
- of the mother, 61;
- negro and, 170, 184;
- public responsibility for conditions of, 242;
- social evil and, 118
- Laundries, public, 83
- Leagues, and assimilation of races, 196;
- and charity, 228;
- and civic improvement, 297;
- and clean streets, 84;
- and housing, 204;
- junior, 87, 95;
- and pure food, 71;
- and pure water, 81;
- and recreation, 134;
- and smoke, 91;
- and vice, 102, 125
- Legislation, for blind, 20;
- and corrections, 276;
- for defectives, 19;
- and housing, 250;
- for safety, 156;
- social, 255;
- and the social evil, 101, 281;
- and social welfare, 250
- Librarians, social work of, 23
- Libraries, 43
- Literature, on aliens, 171;
- on education, 20–42;
- on health, 51–96;
- on housing, 208;
- on pageantry, 158;
- on social centers, 163;
- on the social evil, 124;
- on social and industrial investigations, 248. (In no sense a bibliography)
- Manual training, introduced into schools, 13
- Milk, bottle, versus breast feeding, 60;
- as an economic question, 61;
- elements of problem, 63;
- municipalization of sale of, 62;
- pure, 59
- Milk stations, 60
- Movies, censorship of, 148;
- effects of, 147;
- in sanitation, 90;
- and the social evil, 125
- Music, in schools, 12;
- for public recreation, 143
- Negroes, assimilation of, 183;
- in cities, 170;
- defective, 21;
- and housing, 21;
- recreation for, 146
- Noise, in cities, 93, 94
- Nurseries, day, 84
- Nursing, colored women and, 56;
- district, 53;
- household, 55;
- industrial, 55;
- municipal, 55;
- and pre-natal care, 60;
- school, 55;
- wet, 62
- Occupations, diseases of, 50;
- medical care in, 51;
- of negroes, 184.
- See also Vocations and Labor
- Organizations. See Leagues
- Office-holding, 328
- Pageants, 153
- Parental schools, 22, 270
- Parks. See Art, municipal
- Physical training, for girls, 14;
- in general, 13
- Playgrounds, 131
- Police matrons, 265
- Police women, 266, 286
- Politics, charity and, 231;
- city government and, 319;
- civic improvement and, 298;
- corrections and police and, 266;
- health and, 46;
- juvenile courts and, 271;
- probation and, 264;
- schools and, 9, 10, 38;
- social service and, 237;
- vice and, 106;
- water and, 79.
- See also Social evil
- Posture, 95
- Poverty, charity and, 240;
- education and, 25;
- extent of interest in, 260;
- food and, 67;
- health and, 83;
- housing and, 218;
- infant mortality and, 61;
- the social evil and, 100;
- some results of, 236
- Prevention, among Jewish immigrants, 180;
- of charity, 221;
- of delinquency, 132;
- of dependency, 250;
- of disease, 49;
- of the social evil, 118
- Probation, 261
- Prostitution. See Social evil
- Recreation, 131–169;
- and delinquency, 282
- Red Cross seals, 48
- Safety, in general, 287;
- on streets, 139
- Sanitation, inspection, 86;
- of manufactured goods, 223;
- surveys on, 86.
- See also Clean-up crusades
- School buildings, 36
- Schools, decoration of, 37;
- for delinquents, 276;
- and immigrants, 175;
- inspection of, 37;
- lunches in, 65;
- open-air, 49;
- for public servants, 337;
- as social centers, 158
- Settlements, 39, 182
- Sex hygiene, 15, 48, 125
- Smoke, 91
- Social centers, 158
- Social evil, 97, 180, 252;
- and corrections, 260;
- and courts, 273;
- and legislation, 282
- Societies. See Leagues
- Social service, 220–258;
- among aliens, 182;
- and corrections, 266;
- in hospitals, 51;
- as prevention of social evil, 118;
- and probation, 264;
- through milk stations, 61
- Streets, factors in problem of, 87.
- See also Clean-up crusades
- Suffrage for women, activity of suffragists, 106;
- argument for, 321;
- and civic improvement, 299;
- defense of voters, 322;
- and juvenile delinquency, 272;
- needs of, 47, 80;
- and social service, 257;
- voters and the social evil, 109
- Surveys, of aliens, 171, 196;
- of housing, 202;
- of negroes, 183;
- recreational, 140;
- sanitary, 86
- Temperance, in school study, 12;
- work of W. C. T. U., 225
- Truant schools, 22
- Tuberculosis, clinics for treatment of, 48;
- hospital provision for, 48;
- prevention of, 49
- Vacation schools, 22
- Vice. See Social evil
- Visiting teachers, 24
- Vital statistics, 57
- Vocational guidance, 27
- Vocational training, 13–36;
- reasons for, 236
- Voters, women. See Politics and Suffrage
- White slave traffic, 180.
- See also Social evil
[1]. This movement, however, is by no means recent. One of the most exciting school campaigns in a great city was waged by the Civic Club of Philadelphia, a reform organization of women, nearly twenty years ago, in 1895. The story of that campaign is told in a pamphlet edited by Mrs. Talcott Williams and printed as a publication of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
[2]. New York Times.