New-York tribune., 1906-07-20

attention OF some kind. The Board of Health forcs
not being large enough 20 follow UP cases. there is
the child the hand. and all Of curative
agencies the other. and no connecting link be-
tween. This committee seeks TO be the connecting
link.
''The committee mas also been examining the
cases OF about two thousand children who were
reported by principals needing vacation 1t
has also had three groups OF so-caled detectives
under its special care at summer homes.
believing that the proper unit 10 correct un-
sanitary conditions is the family" went on Mr..
Allen. wherever found a child OF i've years
who needed holiday, and the mother needed one.
too. we sent them away together. And, going still
deeper, IL it was necessary TO help child OF six
70 get its education IL was quite as important TO
help the whole family. so that the child OF four
would not need help by the time IL got TO be six
Or IL child is ailing from improper nourisnment.
it is better TO help the whole family than 20 sup
ply that child with free luncheon"
good many of the specially needy cases reported
by principals were found not TO be needy at sll.
This convinced tho committee that It was vital that
the condition Of children should be discovered by
mechanism within the Board OF Health and the
Board of Education. not left TO chance or memory.
"rhe minute q child is suspected OF not having
enongn ugh 70 eat said Mr; Alien: or r not neing
OF record a. headquarters. We don't want teach
s 6 or & ne svs or 4s fscs as tn 6s eeT
backward children 70 ere likely to become bur-
Mr. Allen conceded that it would be hard to give
the movement red blooG.- because" he added.
people grow suspicious the moment you mention
statistics.
But large numbers are the best substitute for
calamity. Take school with ten children with
defective vision in it. There isn't anything very
Impressive about that: but take six hundred schools
each with ten such defective children in it, and say
to any man with heart There are SIX thonsand
and he is at once Impressed. When we say six
thousand children need ocular II makes as
vivid impression 20 say sixty people had their
eyes put out last night.
city and school officials viii learn this year what
otherwise they wouldn't learn for ten years.
would feel such reports a burden, Mr Allen re-
piled: I'VE hear a lot about red tape. II isn't
that it gives trouble 1t IS possible to have a
scheme of reporting that will save an immense
tendents To illustrate: In Detroit the school su-
perintendent can tell you exactly why every child
so. If all had been thrown into grab basket
many children wh9 lost interest or & fe behind
system of reporting many were induced to keep
we are working for recognition of the impor-
tance of this sort Of thing in New York. We want
our inVesgations that more baths are needed we
want to get the public TO give the Board Of Edu-
are going TO try to get the Board OF Education to
do on an enormous scale what the committee is
TO do the same and have it bear on the amount OF
. appropriations to the Board of Education"
by Mrs Herbert L. satterlee. Felix NJ. Warburg
Victor Morawetz. George s. Brewster and r. Full
ton Cutting It is composed Of the following mem
bers: in addition to those mentioned Mrs. Tunis
6. Bergen. Charles Loring Brace. Dr. Charles
Mabel Clark william Clark FREDERICK a. Clevsl
land. Lee <. Frankel Miss Mary Hartman. Pro-
Dr. F. S. Meara Herbert l. satterlee Professor
David David S snedden Or, George w. yandegft. Miss
Wheeler and DR.. Linsly r. Williams.