 | National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) - Child labor - 1914 - 460 pages
...set up a very different task for the Children's Bureau, in that it was "to investigate and to report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." It would be hard to write a broader charter in as many words. Then, after this charter was written,... | |
 | National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) - Child labor - 1914 - 460 pages
...set up a very different task for the Children's Bureau, in that it was "to investigate and to report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." It would be hard to write a broader charter in as many words. Then, after this charter was written,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1912 - 800 pages
...in the Department of Commerce and Labor a Children's Bureau, for the purpose of investigating "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." After being inexcusably shelved in the special session and successfully fought for months in the regular... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - Electronic journals - 1913 - 936 pages
...which the duties of the Federal Children's Bureau are prescribed. The first clause is comprehensive: "The said Bureau shall investigate and report to said...of children and child life among all classes of our people."1 The next clauses are more specific: "and shall 1 The full text of the law is as follows:... | |
 | American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality - Child welfare - 1913 - 402 pages
...the work which the law authorizes when it says that it shall be its duty to inquire into and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people. It first seemed as if we ought to find some modest place of beginning, and I once thought infant mortality... | |
 | Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.) - Women - 1913 - 808 pages
...creating the Federal Children's Bureau. That bureau is directed by Congress to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, * * * especially * * * infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous... | |
 | National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Session - Charities - 1913 - 488 pages
...creating the Bureau gave us a broad charter; we were charged with the duty of investigating and reporting upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our population, and we were directed especially to investigate Infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanages,... | |
 | National Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.). Annual Session - Charities - 1913 - 490 pages
...creating the Bureau gave us a broad charter ; we were charged with the duty of investigating and reporting upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our population, and we were directed especially to investigate infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanages,... | |
 | Statistics - 1913 - 1114 pages
...Congress has authorized the establishment of a Children's Bureau. Its purpose ia to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of the people, and it will investigate especially the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage,... | |
 | Libraries - 1914 - 542 pages
...Labor. Its duties were thus defined by law : The said bureau shall investigate and report ... on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and...investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth-rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of... | |
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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... 
