...public document, a monograph on Birth Registration. The law creating the Bureau states that it shall investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and shall ecpecially investigate the questions of infant mortality, birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts,...

...of actual work to its credit. First, let me state the limitations of the law. The Bureau is directed to "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 Senate. Miss Julia Lathrope now occupies this position. The law requires that this bureau shall investigate and report upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile...

...specifically indicates the line of endeavor to be 'pursued by the Children's Bureau. "The said bureau 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,...

...such a Bureau was established in the Department of Commerce and Labor, the general scope of which is to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child-life among all classes of people, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality,...

...advance upon 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,...

...Government department for the children of the State. A Federal Children's Bureau has been instituted to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of child life, and Miss Julia Lathrop has been appointed Chief of the Bureau. The diminishing birth-rate,...

...compensation of five thousand dollars. 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,...

...Government department for the children of the State. A Federal Children's Bureau has been instituted to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of child life, and Miss Julia Lathrop has been appointed Chief of the Bureau. The diminishing birth-rate,...

...Children's Bureau. The bureau was confronted by the field marked out for it by this committee, namely, to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and at the same time by the fact that its staff consisted of 15 people...