Evening journal., 1919-01-18
Child WELERE
WORK TO ON7INUE
Woman's Camittee o t
Council of 'efense Re-
ports osubject
NEW COMiSSION
JS)NE OF NEEDS

vomsn n, E city and State associ-
a,ad with o,d welfare work in Della
ware ss narof the national campaign
os Tho chnen's year under the United
states ch,ren's Bureau. met several
days ago Wilmington 10 decide on
nIsns fornture work. Those present
ware ecutive members OF the
Nyomsn' committed OF the State and
Nationa Council of Defense. County
ohsIrms Of child welfare also at
tended
Mrs iharles r. Miller stated at the
neeiir that the child welfare work Of
The 1Nmans committee was to be con-
tinue with its present organization
and direction until the legislature
sho,1 have opportunity 10 hear re-
nor and consider program Of perma-
ner development.
Rports from Washington covering
siIlar activities in other States were
zen. From these reports IL was
eIhered that the attitude OF most
sstern States was toward discarding
a defense activities those departments
. work which could readily be taken
lver by private organizations or other
oubllc agencies; that specific depart
ments Of work, however. were to be
continued either under a Council Of
Defena or under a reconstructed State
department 10 be known as Recon
strucion Commission.
Aftr full discussion, the executive
memjers OF the Woman's Committee,
unanimously decided that the commit
tee tould ask for the creation Of a re-
construction commission for Delaware,
TO ave charge Of child welfare work,
pulic health, and community organiza-
tia.
Aecords Of work In this and other
safes sho wthat only through proper
cooperation with adequate health work
ould child development be normally
issured. and that in the promotion Of
5he welfare OF our future citizens every
community In the Stats should have
directly associating it
with the State Commission in order
that local needs might be known and
acted upon, and In order that esth COM
munity might feel the responsibility for
rs own children. A resolution 10 this
sffsct was ordered prepared for sub
mission to- the proper authorities at
Dover.
The executive committee was eonsti-
tyted a special committee on recon
siruction to promote the work This
committee includes: Mrs. Charles F
Miller, Wilmington; Miss Jeannett,
Eckman Wilmington; Mrs. Horace
Belts. Wilmington; Mrs. Martin Lane
Wilmington; Mrs. Preston Lea, VIII
mington; Mrs. Francis deli. Janvier
Wilmington; Mrs. John P. Salisbury
Dover; Mrs. Samuel H. Messiol,
Brldgeville; Dean Winifred ]. Robinsd,
Newark; Mrs William Staniar, WI
mington; Mrs. William X. dupont. WI
mington; Mrs. A D. Warner. Wllmbg-
ton: Mrs. Garrett S. Harrington. Ier-
rlngton; Mrs. William H Laird, VII
mington; Mrs. Coleman dupont, Nil
mington; Miss Marie T. Lockwood.
Middletown; Mrs James N Ginns lWil-
mington; Mrs. William 5. Hillesl VIII
mington; Mrs Charles Warner VII
mingtOn.
Mrs. ]. B. Hutton, Of Dover, chd well
fare chairman for Kent county, % Mrs.
]. r. Cooker child welfare uairman
for Sussex county. reported on the
county work for children.
Miss Mary Hutchin, Of Mfdletown,
neld secretary for the committee, who
has been conducting the ste school
census. also gave a brief repft
Miss Margaret B. Wise, Supervisor OF
nursing, reported on the YORK OF the
shild welfare nurse in eachcounts' ana
also upon the work OF thfchlla heslth
centers in Dover. Middleton' New Jas
tie and Wilmington. U4to december
3. $500 children throughput the Stste
had been weighed, measred ana regis
tered once; 1000 childre had been VS.
ted in their homes; 2iO were then al
lending the health ceners; classes and
individual conference for instruction
with mothers amonted TO 600; 800
.ases had been refefed TO doctors; 80
sases TO hospitals: 2cases 10 other or
ranizations The dctors and the hos
oitals had co-opersed very fully, par
iicularlv during III influenza epidemic.
The final reporyf the woman's COM
mittee 10 the eycutive committee OF
he state Councf OF Defense was dis
eussed followipsa reading OF the pre-
limInarv report Shich had already been
submitted A 1mmary report Of the
Chairman madlto the State Council at
its last meetig follows:
AT the tin the Woman's Commit.
tee presentel It's first budget to this
Council on .pril 81, Of this year, we
bad beforeAs a program which was
the result Z years study Of local and
national editions. We had been help
cd IN tbl study by Federal depart
ments. esecially by the Woman's Com
mittee o|the Council Of National De-
tense at Washington To play our part
in brinag 10 the citizens of Delaware
an undstanding Of their duties to
ward te home community. toward the
countr at large. and toward other ma
tions uring the war; TO stimulate the
prodytion Of food and the increased
outut Of essential industries; to urge
tbe observation Of food, suel and other
cornodities. and above all TO see to il
M no means were spared in the con-
seJation OF human resources, includ-
ib child life. public health, women in
ilustry-these were the problems and
le activities before US.
"In April our program for the ensu-