The submission of plans for new buildings or improvements should be required of all institutions, so as to secure suggestions and approval from a board of competent ability;
A diet should be established upon a scientific analysis of food properties;
Assignment of routine work to be done by the children should be strictly upon the basis of the child’s training, not service to the institution;
Classes in industrial and special training should be organized, and supplemented by routine work about the institution;
Record systems must be complete of the child’s history, its institutional life and the after disposition;
Visits to placed-out children should be made as often as once in six months;
Adoption should not be consented to until six months after placing;
Placements should be kept within the state; and
Personal investigations of all applying for children should be made.
To estimate fully the importance of the achievements recorded in this report requires some knowledge of the acute disturbance[1] within the field of child-care in Chicago during the year or so preceding the work of this board of visitors. To it is attributed the credit of having brought harmony and efficiency out of the chaos produced by the disruption and antagonism which marked the recently repudiated county administration.