The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-06
ON CHILD LABOR ARE NAMED
 FOR NEW OF FICES

Washington, Nov. 6.-Announce- ment has just been made of the ap- pointmert Of three experts on the staff of the Ghi1dFen.s Bureau of the Department of Labor. They are des- ignated as Expert on Sanitation, Sta tistica1 Expert, and Social Service E11- pert. and are to have charge Of di- visions in the Bureau, working along these various lines. sasEst
 The Expert< on eSanitatfon, pr Grace L. Meigs. is native of Illinois. a graduate Of Bryn Mawr college and of Rush Medical school University of Chicago), and has done post graduate children's specialists as Professor Y :. Pirquet of Vienna, Professor FinkeI- stein Of Berlin, and Professor V. Be- kay of Budapest. Dr.sNfeigs comes to the Children's Bureau from Cook County Hospital of Chicago, where she has been an attending physician in children's diseases. She will act in a general advisory capacity to the Bureau in matters of child health and hygiene.
 Frank s. Brown, the new Statistical Expert, 3. graduate of Dartmouth coll lege, has been connected since 1904 with the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics, having been for the last five years chief statistician and in charge of all the Massachusetts Bu- reau's activities in the field of labor. He is member of the American Sta tistica1 association, the American As sociation for Labor Legislation, the American Economic association, and the International Association on Un- employment. His work in the Chil- dren,s bureau will be to take charge of the @tabulation of material gaShereu in the various field inquiries of the Bureau and in part to do the prelim- mary work in the preparation of such field studies Thus his immediate work will be to determine upon a se- ries of localities in which the inquiry into infant mortality will be carried forward and to precede the Bureaus field agents in such localities with a staement of the purposes. of the in suuiry.
 Miss Emma o. Lundberg. the newly appointed Social Service Expert, is graduate of the University sof Wiscon- sin, and is especially well qualified to take up this phase of the sBuEeau's work, through courses in child prob ferns at the New York School of Phil anthropy and the Chicago School of CIvics and Philanthropy. and by resi- dence in various social settlements Denison House in Boston, the College Settlement in New. York. and Chicago Commons in Caieago-in addition to professional work in this field She has done organized charity work in Chicago and Milwaukee, and since 1910 has taken an active part in so- cia1 and reformative work in the state of Wisconsin. In 1912 she was made a deputy Of the Wisconsin IndusrriaI Commission, making special investiga- ton of child labor
 The new experts are allsyoung peo- pit, exceptionally well trained in their respective fields of economies, socio- Iogay and medicine. and eager to place their services in work for children at the disposal of the United States government. They were all secured by the Civil Service Commission through the method of assembled examinations. This method consists in securing statements regarding ed- ueation. experience and general fitness for the work, made by the applicant at home or wherever may be most convenient, corroborated by refer ences whose communications to the commission are confidential, both statements and references being mail ed to the office of the commission in Washington, where the rating is done This type of examination for high