Chapter 28

AMERICAN REMEDIES: GETTING THINGS DONE

In New York City there is a committee called the Committee on the Physical Welfare of School Children. The word "welfare" was used rather than "condition" because the committee proposed to use whatever facts it could gather for the improvement of home and school conditions prejudicial to child welfare. The following programme was adopted:

1. _Study of the physical welfare of school children._

a. Examination of board of health records of children needing medical, dental, or ocular care, and better nourishment.

b. Home visitation of such children, in order to ascertain whether their need arises from deficient income or from other causes.