Woman's work in municipalities

INDEX

Mary Ritter Beard

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;
- recreat
  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.

3. Bulletin of Public Education Association.

4. The American Club Woman.

5. Annual Report of the Women’s Municipal League.

6. This question is still pending.

7. New York Evening Post.

8. The American City.

9. U. S. Dept. of Labor, Children’s Bureau—Infant Mortality Series.

10. The Survey.

11. The American Club Woman.

12. The American Club Woman.

13. Lenora Austin Hamlin in The St. Paul Courant.

14. The Survey.

15. The American Club Woman.

16. After hearing her once, a large group of working women in New York City eagerly offered to pay $1.00 apiece for a course of lectures.

17. The American City.

18. The Survey.

19. The American City.

20. The American City.

21. The American City.

22. The American Club Woman.

23. The Survey.

24. The American Club Woman.

25. From a paper read at the Recreation Congress in Richmond, Va., May, 1913, and printed in The American City.

26. The American Club Woman.

27. The American City.

28. The Survey.

29. The Survey.

30. The American Club Woman.

31. National Municipal Review.

32. National Municipal Review.

33. See Housing Conditions in Chicago, VI. American Journal of Sociology, Vol. XVIII, p. 241.

34. Annual report of the Consumers’ League.

35. The Survey.

36. From circular sent out by Committee on Women as Overseers of the Poor.

37. Report of the Consumers’ League.

38. The Survey.

39. The Survey.

40. “Pensions for Mothers” by Edward T. Devine, The Survey, July 5, 1913, p. 457.

41. The Survey.

42. The Survey.

43. An interesting development in this protection of child life is the desire being expressed by groups of women that children born out of wedlock shall be protected as well as the children of married mothers. The International Council of Women, in its convention last June, stated the position of such women clearly when it said: “There is no such thing as an illegitimate child.”

44. The Board of Directors consists of: Chairman, James H. Tufts, Illinois Association for Labor Legislation; Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Arthur Aldis, Visiting Nurses’ Association; Secretary, E. T. Lies, United Charities of Chicago; Treasurer, Charles L. Hutchinson, Corn Exchange Bank, Chicago; Executive Officer, James Mullenbach; Jane Addams, Gertrude Howe Britton, Rudolph Matz, Sherman C. Kingsley, Minnie F. Low, James Minnick and W. R. Stirling.

45. The Survey.

46. Parole and probation are so similar in purpose that no distinction will be made here between the two functions. Women figure as parole officers in women’s and children’s institutions just as they figure as probation officers in the courts. The Los Angeles district of the California Federation of Women’s Clubs has established a Psychopathic Parole Society for the “prevention of insanity and to secure homes for unfortunate women confined in Patton, many of whom were fit to be discharged and others rightly and justly able to be paroled if right homes could be found.”

47. The American City.

48. The Survey.

49. The American Club Woman.

50. The American City.

51. The American City.

52. The American City.

53. The American City.

54. For further important statistics see The National Municipal Review.

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