Mother and Child, Volumes 1-2

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American Child Hygiene Association., 1921 - Child health services
 

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Page 15 - The very outcast of the streets has pity upon her sister in degradation when the seal of promised maternity is impressed upon her. The remorseless vengeance of the law, brought down upon its victim by a machinery as sure as destiny, is arrested in its fall at a word which reveals her transient claim for mercy. The solemn prayer of the liturgy singles out her sorrows from the multiplied trials of life, to plead for her in the hour of peril. God forbid that any member of the profession to which she...
Page 535 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 122 - A child shall not be allowed to go to work until he has had a physical examination by a public-school physician or other medical officer especially appointed for that purpose by the agency charged with the enforcement of the law...
Page 12 - Class V — Patients with potential heart disease. Patients who do not have any suggestion of cardiac disease, but who are suffering from an infectious condition which may be accompanied by such disease; eg, rheumatic fever, tonsilitis, chorea, or syphilis.
Page 363 - But the close co-operation that makes them win the day; It ain't the individual, nor the army as a whole. But the everlasting teamwork of every bloomin
Page 185 - ... to provide for the medical inspection of children immediately before or at the time of or as soon as possible after their admission to a public elementary school, and on such other occasions as the Board of Education direct, and the power to make such arrangements as may be sanctioned by the Board of Education for attending to the health and physical condition of the children educated in public elementary schools...
Page 89 - Direction of the Council on Health and Public Instruction of the American Medical Association.
Page 71 - ... residence, marriage and legacies; in marriage in our own country, in voting and in jury and militia service; in the right to admission and practice in the professions and...
Page 71 - There is hardly a relation of life, from the cradle to the grave, in which the evidence furnished by an accurate registration of births may not prove to be of the greatest value, as, for example, in the matter of descent ; in the relations of guardians and wards; in the disabilities of minors; in the administration of estates, the settlement of insurance and pensions, the requirements of foreign countries concerning residence, marriage, and legacies ; in marriage in our own country, in voting, and...
Page 340 - visitation of God". I do not like to trench upon those matters, but when I read in my Book and in your Book that "it is not the will of our Father in Heaven that one of these little ones should perish...

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