Part 11

Only in the last few years has the law required every child attending an elementary school to be physically examined on entering and leaving and, therefore, statistics on the health of school children in England are only now available. About a million and a half children are now examined annually. The report of Sir George Newman, chief medical officer of the Board of Education for 1911, has just been issued. It shows the condition of 186,652 children in thirteen counties and sixteen urban areas and is far from satisfactory. Only in one urban area did the percentage of “good” nutrition reach 45, and from this figure it ranged down as low as 3.8. Of 200,000 children examined in London more than half were found to be defective and over 78,000 were recommended for treatment. According to this report the malnutrition is due in the great majority of cases to ignorance of the relative value of foodstuffs and the means of using them economically, and only in the minority to poverty. About .5 per cent of the children are feeble-minded and of these about one-seventh are of such low grade as to be uneducable.

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON SCHOOL HYGIENE

The preliminary bulletin of the Fourth International Congress for School Hygiene announces a meeting, which is to be held in Buffalo, N. Y., August 23 to 30 next. The three preceding congresses were held in 1904 in Nuremberg; in 1907 in London, and in 1910 in Paris. The president of the congress is Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard University; the vice-presidents are: Dr. W. H, Welch, professor of pathology at Johns Hopkins University and Dr. Henry P. Walcott, chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Health. The lists of vice-presidents and members of the international committee includes the names of some of the foremost men of science in Europe and Asia. Buffalo has raised $40,000 to meet the expenses of the Congress and to entertain the delegates.

3 TO 1 FOR TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL

That the people are coming to favor taxing themselves for public measures to control tuberculosis is indicated by a referendum vote on the establishment of a county tuberculosis hospital in eight towns of St. Lawrence county, New York. The public health committee of the board of supervisors failed to draw up a question to be voted upon in all the towns of the county as instructed by the board. But eight town supervisors took an informal vote on the question. The question carried in all eight towns. The ballots stood more than three to one in the affirmative. This is the first time that this question has been submitted to a vote of the people in New York state. Three of the towns are distinctly rural and only one of the eight communities is a city.

CALENDAR OF CONFERENCES

CONFERENCES

APRIL AND MAY CONFERENCES

ALABAMA SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS, Birmingham, Ala. April 22–24, 1913. William M. McGrath, Pres., Associated Charities, Birmingham.

BAPTIST CONVENTION, NORTHERN, Detroit, Mich., May 13–20, 1913. Con. Sec’y. Rev. W. C. Bitting, St. Louis.

BOYS, General Assembly of Workers with. Culver, Ind., May 17–30, 1913. Information may be secured from the Boys’ Work Dept., Y. M. C. A., 124 E. 28th Street, New York.

CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, New York City Conference on. May 14–15, 1913. Sec’y, John B. Prest, 287 Fourth Avenue, New York.

CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, Semi-annual Conference, Colorado State Board of. Denver. May 13, 1913. Sec’y, William Thomas, Capitol Building, Denver.

CHARITIES AND CORRECTIONS, Arkansas Conference of, Little Rock, Ark., May 13–15, 1913. Sec’y, Murray A. Auerbach, Little Rock.

CITY PLANNING, National Conference On. Chicago, May 5–7, 1913. Sec’y, Flavel Shurtlett, 19 Congress Street, Boston.

CONSERVATION OF HUMAN LIFE, Conference on. Portland, Ore., May 9–11, 1913. Information can be secured by addressing Reed College, Portland.

COLORED PEOPLE, Fifth Annual Conference of National Association for Advancement of. Philadelphia, Pa., April 23–25, 1913. Sec’y, May Childs Nerney, 26 Vesey St., New York City.

JEWISH SOCIAL WORKERS, Third Informal Conference, National Association of. Atlantic City, N. J. May 29–30, 1913.

MOTHERS, National Congress of. Boston, May 15–20, 1913. Sec’y, Mrs. A. A. Birney, 806 Loan and Trust Bldg., Washington, D. C.

PEACE CONFERENCE, Fourth American. St. Louis, Mo., May 1–4, 1913. James E. Smith, Chairman. St. Louis.

PLAYGROUND AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA. Richmond, Va., May 6–10, 1913. Sec’y, H. S. Braucher, 1 Madison Avenue, New York.

SOUTHERN SOCIOLOGICAL CONGRESS, Atlanta, Ga., April 25–29, 1913. Gen. Sec’y, J. E. McCulloch, Nashville, Tenn.

WOMEN’S CLUBS, New Jersey Federation of Atlantic City, May 2 and 3, 1913. Sec’y, Mrs. Joseph M. Middleton, 46 Prospect St., Trenton.

YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, International Conference of. Cincinnati, May 15–18, 1913.

LATER MEETINGS

INTERNATIONAL

BLIND, Fourth Triennial International Conference on the London, England, 1914; probably July 20. Sec’y, Henry Stainsby, 206 Great Portland St., London, W.

CHILDREN’S WELFARE, International Congress for. Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1914. President, Dr. Treub, Huygenstraat 106, Amsterdam.

CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP CONFERENCE, World’s. Portland, Ore., June 29–July 6, 1913. Chairman, Rev. James S. Martin, 209 9th St., Pittsburgh, Pa.

FARM WOMEN, International Congress of. Tulsa, Okla., October 22–November 1, 1913. Sec’y, Mrs. John T. Burns, Tulsa, Okla.

HOUSING, International Congress on. The Hague, Holland, September 8–13, 1913. Sec’y, M. O. Veighe, director general Ministry of Agriculture, Brussels. Executive secretary section for United States, William H. Tolman, 29 West 39th Street, New York.

INFANT MORTALITY, English-speaking conference on. London, England. August 4 and 5, 1913. Under auspices of the British National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality and for the Welfare of Infancy, London.

PRISON CONGRESS, Quinquennial. London, Eng., 1915. Sec’y, F. Simon Van der Aa, Groningen, Holland.

SCHOOL HYGIENE, Fourth International Congress on. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 25–30, 1913. Sec’y Gen., Dr. Thomas A. Storey, College of the City of New York.

STUDENT CHRISTIAN FEDERATION, WORLD’S, Lake Mohawk, N. Y., June 2–8, 1913. Gen. Sec’y, John R. Mott, 124 East 28th Street, New York.

STUDENTS (“Corda Fratres”), Eighth International Congress of. Ithaca, N. Y., August 20–September 13, 1913. Information can be secured by addressing the Cornell Cosmopolitan Club, Ithaca, N. Y.

TOWN PLANNING AND ORGANISATION OF MUNICIPAL LIFE, First International Congress on Art of. Ghent, Belgium, Summer 1913. General Sec’y, Paul Saintenoy, Brussels.

UNEMPLOYMENT, International Association on. Ghent, Belgium, September 3–6, 1913. American Section secretary, John B. Andrews, 121 East 23rd St., New York City.

NATIONAL

CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, National Conference of. Seattle, Wash., July 5–12, 1913. Sec’y, Alexander Johnson, Angola, Ind.

HOME ECONOMICS, American Association of. Ithaca, N. Y., June 27–July 4, 1913. Information may be secured from Marguerite B. Lake, Forest Hill, Md.

INFANT MORTALITY, American Association for Study and Prevention of. Fourth annual meeting. Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 23–25, 1913. Exec. Sec’y, Gertrude B. Knipp, 1211 Cathedral St., Baltimore.

MEDICINE, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF. Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, Minn., June 13, 14, 1913.

OFFICIALS OF CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, American Association of. Fourth Annual Meeting. Springfield, Ill., June 24–26, 1913. Sec’y, W. T. Cross, Columbia, Mo.

PRISON ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN, Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 11–16, 1913. Sec’y, Joseph P. Byers, Trenton, N. J.

SOCIAL INSURANCE, First American Conference on. Chicago, Ill., June 6–7, 1913. Sec’y, John B. Andrews, 131 East 23rd St., New York City.

STATE AND LOCAL

CHARITIES AND CORRECTION, Ohio State Conference of. Akron, O., October, 1913. Sec’y, H. H. Shirer, 1010 Hartman Bldg, Columbus, O.

EXHIBITIONS

INTERNATIONAL

PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION, San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 20–Dec. 4, 1915. Social Economy Department—Frank A. Wolff, Washington, D. C.

PANAMA-CALIFORNIA EXPOSITION, San Diego, Cal., Jan. 1–Dec. 31, 1915. Director of Exhibits, E. L. Hewett, San Diego.

STUDENT CHRISTIAN FEDERATION WORLD’S, Lake Mohawk, N. Y., June 2–8, 1913. Exhibits including “social study and service.” Gen. Sec’y, John R. Mort, 124 East 28th St., New York.

SCHOOL HYGIENE, Fourth International Congress on. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 25–30, 1913. Chairman. Committee on Scientific Exhibit, Dr. Fletcher B. Dressler, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C.

NATIONAL

CONSERVATION EXPOSITION, NATIONAL, Knoxville, Tenn., Sept.-Oct., 1913.

LOCAL

CHILD WELFARE EXHIBIT, New Britain, Conn., April 25–May 2. Sec’y, E. W. Pelton.

TAXATION IN NEW JERSEY. Charts prepared by the Bureau of Municipal Research will be shown at the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs. Atlantic City, May 2 and 3. Sec’y, Mrs. Joseph M. Middleton, 46 Prospect St., Trenton, N. J.

JOTTING

KENTUCKY SCHOOL LAW

A newly enacted state-wide compulsory school attendance law brings Tennessee into line with its neighbor Kentucky. Attendance at school is required of all between the ages of eight and fourteen and of all between fourteen and sixteen who are not “actively and regularly and lawfully” employed or who are unable to read and write. This new law takes from the map printed in THE SURVEY of February 15 one of the five gray southern states that have had compulsory attendance only in certain counties.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

1. P. 81, added title “The Survey, Volume XXX, No. 3, Apr 19, 1913.” 2. Silently corrected obvious typographical errors and variations in spelling. 3. Retained archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 4. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.