Evening star., 1926-11-16
CLUB TO EXTEND
SOCIAL WELFARE
Monday Evening Group Seeks
Many Health Aids in
Program for 1927.

A constructive social service pro.
gram for 1927, containing % measures
directly affecting economic and social
welfare conditions in the District of
Columbia. was adopted last night by
the Monday Evening Club and re-
ferred back to a committee for minor
technical revisions.
Measures advocated by the club are:
The establishment OF a mental clinic.
Increased accommodations at the
Training School for the Feeble
Minded.
A new municipal lodging house, with
provision for women with children.
A public welfare building.
A sanatortum for tuberculous chill.
dren.
An Increased STAFF and additional
facilities for the Bureau Of Contagious
Diseases Of the Health Department.
particularly for it's tuberculosis and
venereal disease work.
Appropriation of sufficient funds to
enable the Health Department to
: bring the public health work of the
District Of Columbia up to the needs
Of the city in accordance with the best
modern health standards.
Enough medical examiners and
nurses to permit the physical examina-
ton Of every school child upon en-
trance to the school system and the
subsequent annual examination OF all
pupils Of the third and eighth grades,
as at present, in accordance with the
recommendations Of the clubs public
health committee.
Want Code Revised.
A revised code of existing welfare
and other social service statutes or
provisions of law with the amend
ments necessary to bring them up to
date
A modern commitment law for men,
tally Ill patients.
A public contagious disease hos
pital.
A new Juvenile Court law, as pro-
posed by the Commission on Public
Welfare Legislation.
A modern child labor law.
Adequate appropriations for suffl-
cient staff in the Board of Public Wei
fare, with particular reference to an
increased number of physicians to the
poor and additional social service
workers in the department of child
welfare.
A law for the licensing and inspec-
tion of all child-caring institutions by
the Public Welfare Department.
An indeterminate sentence and pa
role law.
An adequate law for the inspection
and supervision of dance halls.
Provision for adequate municipal
bathing facilities.
4 revised and modernized code for
control of insanitary, unsafe and I'M
proper housing.
Provision for a five-year program
for the development of a public library
program similar to that in effect in
the school system. so that all sections
of the District will be benefited.
a proper workmen's compensation
law for the District of Columbia.
An adequate playground system for
the District of Columbia.
Speakers made clear that in estab-
fishing the objectiveS of the club 1t
was not proposed to attempt to carry
out such A program without the CO.
Deration of other civic and welfare
and civic organizations. and that many
Of the measures represent goals to-
ward which many agencies are striV-
ing.
Urges Lodging House.
Arthur Deering Call. director of the
American Peace Society and past
III esident of the club, read and COM
mented on the social service program
prior to its adoption, with slight revi-
SlnitS anu lHloe ~ tiiC
club. The program was drafted orig.
inallv by a committee composed of
Louis Brownlow, Mrs. Nina Van
Winkle. Walter S. Ufford, John Ihlder
and Mrs. w. A. Roberts.
Speaking of the municipal lodging
house proposition. Mr.. Call said:
There is no provision for homeless
women with children, save in our
house of detention. In I917 Congress
appropriated $4,000 for the purchase
of site and erection of municipal
lodging house. The site on Louisiana
avenue was purchased for $4,000.
Erectio of the building was stopped,
FIRST because of the prohibition against
other than emergency construction
during war time. and since the war it
has been impossible to erect building
at all commensurate with the need for
the $40 900 now available. The build
Ing should have accommodations for
about f25 to so persons. and it would
require probably $4,000 to erect such
a building
The necessity for a sanatorium for
tuberculous chilGN'en is urgent, he
said, and health rather than educa-
ZION should be the first consideration.
with children attending health schools
placed on q 24-hour-a-day regime un-
der constant medical supervision and
nursing service rather than being al