New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-02-19
WORK ON PROBLEMS
OF CHILD WELFARE
COUNTY BOARD TO COOPERATE
WITH STATE BOARD OF
CONTROL
UNSANITARY OR UNIIEALTHFUL
CONDITIONS IN HOMES
TO BE ELIMINATED

Two weeks ago the Brown County
Child Welfare Board met in New Tim
and decided upon various steps to be,
taken to secure needed betterrnent in:
the care and upbringing Of children.
The members Of the Brown County.
organization are Com. Polkow, Chair
man OF the County Board, Supt. r. B..
Kennedy, Judge Of Probate, VIM. B.
Mather, Mrs. J. C. Rothenburg of
Springfield, Mrs. Jno. G. Wooldrik of
Sleepy Eye and Mrs. C. G. REIN Of
New Ulm.
An outline Of the plans adopted has
been prepared and the general aims of
the organization are explained in the
following:
The county child welfare board, work
ing IN cooperation with the State Board
OF Control, is undertaking to find out
about and to help every handicapped,
neglected or delinquent child in the
county. According to the members of
the Board task Of such large purposes
will require the assistance and co-opera-
ton of everyone who knows of children
in need or distress. The members of the
Board say that if any citizen of the
county knows Of child who is not
properly fed or clothed, or is living in
unsanitary or unhealthful conditions,
or whose material or spiritual welfare
is neglected, such cases should be report
ed to the child welfare board, that an
effort may be made to remedy the con-
dition.
Send Children to School.
An children of school age, according
to County Superintendent Kennedy,
should be in school regularly and forsthe
full term. The county superintendent
is a member of the child welfare borad.
He and the board should be informed of
children who are not in school and proper
action will be. taken. Sometimes UNI
scrupulous persons abuse children, make
them work when they should be in
school, employ them for long hours or in
dangerous occupations or otherwise make
them labor in violation OF the law. The
child welfare board can help such child
rem, and it will cooperate with the State
Department OF Labor to that end.
Institution Cases.
In this community, as in other COM
nunities, there are feebleminded persons
who are menace to themselves, their
families and the community. It is de-
sired by the members of the child well
fare board that they should know of
such cases and the matter viii be taken
up with Judge Mather, for commitment
to the State Board Of Control.
The superintendent Of the State
Schools for the Blind and Deaf report
that there are children in the public
schools who are partially either blind
or deaf and who cannot be properly
trained unless they are sent to the state,
institution for such children for the
school term. The child welfare board
will take the proper steps in behalf Of
such children.
Mi Medical Attention s
n III health is costly, according to the
reports Of the State Board al Health,
and there are many children ii need of
medical attention, which parents some
times refuse to give; j. e. removal 81
tonsils or adenoids, care for the teeth
crippled and deformed children in need
OF care at the State Hospital, tubercular
children, children with weak eyes. III
the child welfare board and the county
or school nurse know the facts Of such:
cases, they can work out a plan for pro
viding medical attention and can secure
the assistance of d.. E. ]. Huenekens
of the Department Of Child Conser W.
ton Of the State Board Of Health. Il
is further stated that where proper home
supervision is lacking. children develop
bad habits and vicious tend ncies. thew
associate with hsd eelap aniss, are eaiilty.
al inazneral conduct. petty thesft, fe.,1h.
behavior in pubic piacea. they frecuentff
undesirable places, are guilty al truz,scy,:
incorFigibilty and yialation Of laws andl
principles Of right conduct. Tie child
welfare board and Judge Mather Of thes
Probate Court can help such children.
Conditions frequently exist in villages.
and towns which tend to corrupt "a orals..
such as homes Of people Of low moral
standards, pool halls, dances and dance
halls without supervision, places where
liquor and tobacco are covertly supplied
to children. The child welfare board
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