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

340Corrections, 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; 341pre-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

342Libraries, 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; 343some 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

344Visiting 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