Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy: Hearings Before the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce of the House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First Session, on H. R. 2366, a Bill for the Public Protection of Maternity and Infancy and Providing a Method of Cooperation Between the Government of the United States and the Several States ; July 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 1921 |
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Page 227 - The said bureau shall investigate and report to said department upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of children, employment, legislation affecting children in the several States and Territories.
Page 25 - The act establishing the bureau provides that it shall investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents, and diseases of children, employment, and legislation affecting children in the several States and Territories.
Page 185 - President, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury until the close of the next Congress, in order that the State...
Page 140 - In order to secure the benefits of the appropriations authorized in section 2 of this Act, any State shall, through the legislative authority thereof, accept the provisions of this Act and designate or authorize the creation of a State agency with which the Children's Bureau shall have all necessary powers to cooperate...
Page 237 - The act directed the bureau to investigate and report upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 134 - That there is hereby created a Board to be known as the "Minimum Wage Board," to be composed of three members to be appointed by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. As far as practicable, the members shall be so chosen that one will be representative of employees, one representative of employers, and one representing the public.
Page 25 - That any State desiring to avail itself of the benefits of this Act shall, by its State highway department, submit to the Secretary of Agriculture project statements setting forth proposed construction of any rural post road or roads therein.
Page 103 - ... provisions of this Act and the sum which he has apportioned to each State for the fiscal year...
Page 77 - That the plans of the States under this act shall provide that no official, or agent, or representative in carrying out the provisions of this act shall enter any home or take charge of any child over the objection ^of the parents, or either of them, or the person standing in loco parentis or having custody of such child.
Page 53 - Hygiene, which shall consist of the Chief of the Children's Bureau, the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, and the United States Commissioner of Education, and which is hereafter designated in this Act as the Board. The Board shall elect its own chairman and perform the duties provided for in this Act...