Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-10-16
The Worlds Children
Observation-Disclosures
enid Labor. alifornia.

} Five thousand children were en-
gagged in agriculture IN California
when the latest report Of the state
Bureau Of Labor Statistics (l923-23)
vas submitted, the bureau estimated.
Census reports for 1920 showed only
/ So California children working IN
agriculture. The bureau found many
children working i'm the cotton fields Of
Fresno County and the Imperial Val
ley. Amendment Of State chlld-labor
and school attendance laws To protect
these children Is urged in the State
report.
Nursing Standards, Massachusetts.
A committee Of Massachusetts
nurses and physicians are formulating
standards for prenatal and obstetrc
nursing for the nurses of the State
division of child hygiene. DR.. Mary
l.akeman is chairman Of the committee
and Dr. Robert L. DeNormandie is
advising.
Health Movies. New York.
The New York State Department of
Health now has five short health films
hich are loaned without charge with
in the state. The films are suitable
Tor general use and it is suggested
mat health workers have one included
IN the local theatre programs each
week.
Crippled Children. North Carolina.
The income from u 100000 bequest
to the North Carolina Orthopedic
Hospital is to be used for the treat
nent Of poor and INDECENT crippled
children according to the bulletin of
the State Board OF Charities and Pub
lie Welfare.
Training Teachers If the Blind.
Massachusetts.
A course for teachers of blind and
emi-sighted children and for workers
with the adult blind is being offered
Ibis year for the first time a. a regu-
lar part of the curriculum of Gradu-
ate School Of Education.
New Director of Maternal and Infant
Hygiene Division, u. 5. Chill
dren's Bureau.
DR.. Blanche NJ. Haines has beer
appointed Director of the Division OF
/ Maternal and Infant Hygiene of the
Cs -
immediate direction of the National
administration of the maternity anC
infancy act. Dir. Haines was director
Of the Michigan Bureau of Child
| Hygiene and Public Health for three
years.
Montana Saves Mothers and Babies.
Lower infant and maternal NOR
] al oh :,
a health review published lately b!
| The Montana Department of Health
In 1923 the infant death rate was
| IFS and in 1924, Cos. The maternal
mortality rate dropped from rs ii
1923 to 10 in 1921.
Public Health School, Mexico.
The first school of public health to
be established in Mexico is authorized
by a recent presidential decree.
Accident Insurance for School Chill
dren, Switzerland.
Accident insurance for public-school
children is to be provided by the Gov
eminent OF Zurich, Switzerland, as
has already been done in Bern and
Bazelland. At present $50 commune
ties in Zurich are providing this in
sufance paying an average of 1000
francs in case of accidental death
1000 in case of disability, and 8
francs a day for medical treatment
Repatriation of Minors, France
Belgium.
A mutual agreement for the repa-
triation of minors who run away from
their parents and guardians has been
signed by France and Belgium. Re-
patriation will take place only when
the right of guardianship is not con-
tested, when the guardian requests the
minors return, and when it is consid-
cred of benefit to the child.