Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau). no. 140, 1924, Issue 140U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 |
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aid from relatives aid from relief amount Annual Report appropriation Associated Charities Board of Charities Board of Children's boarding homes boys cared cent charge chil child or children child welfare child-caring agency children committed children in need children received Children's Guardians Colored Children commissioners committee Congress County Death of father delinquent children dependent children Desertion of father destitute discharged District of Columbia dren Earnings of mother ended June 30 family homes feeble-minded children free homes girls guardianship hospital included Industrial Home School insti institutions for dependent investigation June 30 juvenile court laundry living mental minority commitment months Mother's earnings National Colored Home national training schools negro children number of children Orphan Asylum parents physical private institutions relief agency Rensselaer County rental of rooms School for Colored suitable homes supervision temporary commitment temporary wards tion tuberculosis Washington week white children
Popular passages
Page 110 - States; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That when used in this Act: The term "common carrier by water in foreign commerce...
Page 19 - ... or whose home, by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity on the part of its parents, guardian or other person in whose care it may be, is an unfit place for such...
Page 152 - Of the nine members first appointed after the passage of this act, three shall be appointed for one year, three for two years, and three for three years.
Page 106 - If the parent or parents of such dependent or neglected child are poor and unable to properly care for the said child, but are otherwise proper guardians and it is for the welfare of such child to remain at home...
Page 15 - The aim of all provision for children who must be removed from their own homes should be to secure for each child home life as nearly normal as possible, to safeguard his health, and to insure for him the fundamental rights of childhood. To a much larger degree than at present, family homes may be used to advantage in the care of such children.
Page 156 - dependent or neglected ' children as used in this act shall be held to mean and include any child who is destitute or homeless or abandoned or dependent upon the public for support...
Page 19 - paved," or "repaved," as used in this act, shall be held to mean and include...
Page 155 - ... by both such fine and imprisonment. The court may impose conditions upon any person found guilty under this act, and so long as such person shall comply therewith to the satisfaction of the court, the sentence imposed may be suspended...
Page 155 - An act to provide for the care of dependent children in the District of Columbia and to create a Board of Children's Guardians...
Page 106 - All payments made under the provisions of this act shall continue at the will of the trustees but not beyond the time when any child under the provisions of the law may secure employment, excepting where the child is physically unable to earn wages or is at school with a satisfactory record of attendance and scholarship, in which case such payment shall continue until such child has reached the age of sixteen years.