...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 could not deliver medical care....

...worthy of mention. The statute gave the bureau a broad mandate to "investigate and report . . . on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." It instructed the bureau to examine especially "infant mortality, the birthrate, orphanage, juvenile...

...agency in the world that concerned itself solely with children. Charged by Congress to report "on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people," the agency received only a small initial appropriation of $25,640. Julia Lathrop, the nation's first...

...Created in 1912 by an act of Congress, the bureau was charged with investigating and reporting "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." 6 Immediately following her appointment as chief of the new bureau, Julia Lathrop turned to investigating...

...Howard Taft created a federal Children's Bureau and charged it with investigating and reporting on "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of people."17 The Bureaus first assignment was to study why so many American infants died. Part of this...

...be President Taft who would sign the bill marking its creation. The bureau's mandate included "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of people," though infant mortality and the birthrate were highlighted as concerns of the agency. 12 Toward...