Evening star., 1927-03-12
CLUB TO PROVIDE
FACTS FOR PROBE
Monday Evening Group Will
Aid Bureau Inquiry Into
Welfare.

Tentative plans "for the presenta-
ton of facts" about welfare condt-
tions in the District of Columbia to
ter body's information in connection
with an investigation to be made by
it, were decided upon at a preliminary
meeting of the executive committee
of the Monday Evening Club with
is committee chairmen in the Cosmos
Club Thursday The various items
10 be presented to the Bureau of
Efficiency through the clubs COM
mittees are in line with general i'm
provements sought in the regular
Monday Evening Club program adopt
I'd several months ago.
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, president
of the club, presided at the meeting.
Items coming under three general
heads are to be reported upon by coAl-
mittee chairmen, as follows:
Under the general head of Health
Needs: 1.-The Establishment of
Mental Cline" to be reported upon
by Dr. Loren b. T. Johnson. chair
for making a study of that need; "A
Sanatorium for Tubercular Children"
Mrs. +. r. Grant, committee chair
man: IAN Increased staff and Addi-
tional Facilities for the Bureau of
Contagious Diseases of the Health
Department, Particularly for It's Tu
berculosis and Social Hygiene Work"
chairman of the committee to be an
nounced.
Constructive Program.
Accommodations for q Larger
Number of Patients at the Tubercu-
losis Hospital" Mrs. Agnes, Stewart;
Appropriations of Sufficient Funds
Bring the Municipal Public Health
Work of the District of Columbia Up
to the Needs of the City in Accord
ance With the Best Modern Health
Standards" chairman to be an
nounced; Enough Medical Examiners
and Nurses to Permit q Physical EX-
animation of Every School Child Upon
Entrance in School and the Subse-
quent Annual Examination of All Pu-
pills of the Third to Eighth Grades"
Wallace Hatch. chairman.
Coming under the general head of
Constructive Program" Increased
at the Training
School for the Feeble Minded" A. d.
Call; "a New Municipal Lodging
House With Provision for the Tenn
porary Care of Homeless Women and
Children" Mrs. Archibald Hopkins to
report: "A Public Welfare Building"
report on need to be made by Mrs.
Nina Van Wrinkle: "A Public Con-
tagious Disease Hospital" DIR. w. c.
Fowler, District health officer, to re-
port; Provision for Adequate Munich
pal Bathing Facilities" A j. Driscoll,
president of the Mid City Citizens AS
sociation, to report: Adequate Play
ground Facilities Within Reasonable
Distance of Every Home in the Dis
trict of Columbia Dorsey w. Hyde,
jr., chairman; Provision for a Five
Year Program for the Development of
the Public Library System" Evan II.
Tucker.
Social Legislation"
Under the head Of Social Legisla-
ton: "A Revised Code of Existing
Welfare and Other Social Service
Statutes, or Provisions of Law with
the Amendments Necessary to Bring
Them Up to Date" George S. Will
son; "a Modern Commitment Law for
Mentally Ill Patients" Sarah F.
Schroeder to report; "A New Juvenile
Court Law AS Proposed BY the Com
HllSSlOHeTS OH EuDliC W0lldTe hc6AS-
lation," Mrs. Louis Ottenburg; "A
Modern Child-Labor Law" chairman
to be announced; "A Law for the Lii
censing and Inspection of all Child
Caring Institutions by the Public
Welfare Department" Mrs. Gilbert
Grosvenor; AN Indeterminate Sen
tence and Parole Law. Francis De
Sales Ryan: "An Adequate Law for
the Inspection and Supervision of
Dance Halls" DIR. w. l.. Darby; "A
Revised and Modernized Code Dealing
With Insanitary, Unsafe and I'm
proper Housing" John Ihlder; PRO
vision for Adequate Personnel In the
Board of Public Welfare, Particularly
in Its Work With Dependent and Neg
lected Children" Mrs. Whitman
Cross; "a Proper Workmen's Com
pensation Law" Edwin Potter; "A
Wayward Minors Act Similar to That
Which Is Working So Helpfully in
New York City," Miss Alice Deal,
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