 | Genealogy - 1910 - 538 pages
...Children's Bureau in the Department of the Interior of the United States. " The Children's Bureau would investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and would especially investigate questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, physical degeneracy, orphanage,... | |
 | Theodore J. Stein - Political Science - 2001 - 536 pages
...United States Department of Health and Human Services. The bureau's mandate was straightforward: “To investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people.” Under the stewardship ofJulia Lathrop, who headed the bureau from... | |
 | Charlene K. Haar - Education - 202 pages
...the Children's Bureau was created as a federal agency in the Department of Labor. It was charged to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of people."17 Over time, the Children's Bureau became involved in labor and socialinsurance... | |
 | Duncan Lindsey - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 476 pages
...continue unexamined. The Children's Bureau — The Beginning of a System [The purpose of the Bureau was to investigate and report] upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people. [It was charged to investigate] infant mortality, the birth rate,... | |
 | Robyn L. Rosen - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 212 pages
...Conference. Three years later, the US Children's Bureau (CB) was established in the Department of Labor to "investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life."7 With the creation of the CB, women reformers, settlement house workers, and social scientists... | |
 | Deborah E. Ward - Political Science - 2009 - 208 pages
...establishment in 1912 of the Department of Labor's Children's Bureau. Congress mandated the bureau "to investigate and report . .. upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." 40 The Children's Bureau acted as a research center for gadiering... | |
 | Kimberley S. Johnson - Political Science - 2007 - 252 pages
...not voting).5 The result of the legislative struggle was the creation of a bureau with the charge "to investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." The legislation also enumerated the number (fifteen) and the salaries... | |
 | John E. B. Myers - Social Science - 2006 - 320 pages
...Bureau was signed by President William Howard Taft on April 9, 1912. The law stated the bureau's duties: "Investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and . . . especially investigate the questions of infant mortality,... | |
 | Rima Dombrow Apple - History - 2006 - 226 pages
...other national leaders. Finally, in 1912, the US Children's Bureau was established with a mandate to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." Note, the agency was to investigate and report, not treat; the Bureau... | |
 | Ronald Hamowy - Medical - 2008 - 539 pages
...various states for health purposes. The Children's Bureau had been established in 1912 with authority to investigate and report 'upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life'.79 The Bureau's primary duty was to investigate all questions relating to infant mortality, the... | |
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Bureau shall investigate and report * * * upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people... 
