Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-01-02
ANNUAL REPORT
OF CHIEF Chill
DREN'S BUREAU

National attention 10 the proven
| ton of sex delinquency among chill
| dren is urged by Grace Abbott, Chief
of the Children's Bureau of the L. 5.
Department Of Labor, in her annual
report for the fiscal wear, 1924, made
public today.
There Is no field of child study
more important or more neglected
than this. Miss Abbott states. The
| Childrens Bureau has received many
requests during the last year TO IN
| deriake research with reference TO the
prevention Of sex delinquency among
| children and methods OF care Tor
| those who have become delinquent.
| Local communities desire not only
facts as TO successful handling OF
these conduct problems in this and
other countries but help through con
sultation by qualified experts" The
Children's Bureau has ample authority
under the act of Congress creating
| the bureau to undertake this work,
Miss Abbott states, but no appropria-
| ton available.
Another recommendation stressed
by Miss Abbott is the need for current
statistics on a National scale relating
to the number of dependent, delin-
quent, and neglected children, as well
as to the number of children legally
employed. At present Nationwide
statistics on these subjects are
secured only once every 10 years.
I Many phases of child welfare and
practically every State in the Union
were touched during the course of the
years work by the Children's Bureau,
Miss Abbott's report shows.
Scientific Investigations into prob
lens affecting childhood were made by
the bureaus divisions Of child by
giene, maternity and infancy, social
service and its industrial divisions.
Among the most important studies
were:
A demonstration to prove that
ricketts,, widely prevalent among
young children, a danger to the lives
of infants, and the source of serious
loss in the mechanical efficiency OF
adults, may be eradicated through
methods applicable to any community.
This demonstration covers a New
Haven Comm district with a popu-
lation of $4,000 and is being carried
onu by the bureau in cooperation with
the Yale University School of Medl-
cine and the New Haven Department
of Health. 1t is to cover three.
year period, of which one year has
been completed.
An investigation of the relation OF
posture to physical fitness was con
Quoted in cooperation with the public
schools of Chelsea, Mass, and the
Boston Community Health Service.
Approximately 1000 children have
had orthopedic examinations and
taken special postural exercises regu-
larry. Il is hoped that exercises may
be devised which can be so directed
by teachers that good posture train
ing will be available for all children.
Standards of administration of
Mothers pension" laws, with special
reference to housing, health, educa-
ton and recreation, have been studied
in counties in Massachusetts, New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois,
Michigan, Washington, California and
Manitoba, Canada. The importance
of this movement to keep mothers and
children together and to prevent the
breakup of homes is indicated, Miss
Abbott points out, by the fact that
AZ States have such laws, and that
approximately 10000 children are
receiving aid, and about $4,000 famil-
les being kept together.