The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-11-28
Child WELFARE TRIP
TO HOOVER FARLEY
Brings $2,400 GIFT
Chief Of Health Department
Confident Further Means
Are Ahead for Program
EXPECTS FULL TIME UNITS
Congress to Be Asked to Appro-
pirate Federal Fund to As.
sist Various States

SlSI various 0IdIeS
Or. A. A. Whittemore's trip to
Washington to attend the child well
fare conference called and opened by
President Hoover, last week. resulted
in obtaining for tn State Health de-
partment, for the biennial period end
ing next June 30, a donation of So, 400
from philanthropic sources , with
which he has been in touch several
years.
This brings donations of cash OBJ
tanned by the state health officer
since the full-time department was
established, to an average of s. 5000 a
year. The Rockefeller foundation has
been a liberal contributor, partially
financing the state sanitary engineer
ing bureau and that of p%reventable
diseases.
DR.. Whittemore got back to Bis
nlarck Monday night. He is enthusi-
astic over the child welfare confer
ence, to which he went on invitation
of the president. Three thousand
delegates attended and 1000 of these
were formed into 26 committees to
handle separately the various topics
connected with welfare. DR.. White
more served on a subcommittee.
Expects Full Time Units
When the conference adjourned.
continuing committees were commits
stoned to thresh out matters on which
agreement was not reached at the
hurried sessions of the conference.
The outstanding features of the
conference, said DR.. Whittemore. were
formulation of a bill of rights for
childhood and recommendation for
full-time health units. The depart
ment here has been trying to obtain
a law for these units and a bill will
be introduced in the coming legisla-
ture to make the units permissive. 1t
will provide that two or more cities,
communities or counties may pool
their interests and establish these
units.
No additional expense will be in
volved, but Dr.. WhittemOre said the
results will be greater. as the physi-
clans or other personnel of the units
will give full time to the work. In
stead of the present part time or
neglect that prevails.
DR.. Whittemore visited several
other state health departments on his
way back from Washington. Every
where the efficiency of the North d.
kcta department was praised, he said,
being regarded as the hardest working
department in the country with It's
limited resources.
Await Aid of Congress
Health departments the country
over, said DR.. Whittemore, expect to
obtain from the next congress a gen.
eral federal subsidy for full time
health work. This will permit small
rural communities to contribute their
share to thu covering of the subject
of health.
The doctor codified the bill of
rights for childhood adopted by the
conference and the program, which
are as follows:
New Bill Of Rights for Children
Every prospective mother should
have suitable information, medical
supervision in the prenatal period,
competent care at confinement. Every
mother should have post-natal med
ical supervision for herself and child.
Every child should receive periodi-
cal health examinations before and In
the school period including Adde'S
cence. by the family physician OF the
school Or other public physician, and
such examination by specialists and
such hospital are as its special needs
may require.
Every child should have regular
dental examination and care.
Every child should have instruction
in the schools in health and in safety
from accidents and every Nacher
should be trained in health pro G.ams.
Every child should be protected
from communicable diseases to- which
he. might be exposed at home. in
school or at play, and protected from
impure milk and food.
Every child should have proper
sleeping rooms, diet. hours of sleep
and play and parents should receive
expert information as to the needs of
children of various ages as to these
questions.
Favor Moral Training
Every child should attend q school
which has proper seating. lighting,
ventilation and sanitation. For
younger children, kindergartens and
nursery schools Should be provided to
supplement home care.
The school should be so organized
as to discover and develop the special
abilities of each child and should as
sist in vocational guidance, for chill
dren. like men, succeed by the use Of
their strongest qualities and special
interests.
Every child should have some form
of religious, moral and character
training.
Every child has a right to a place
to play with adequate facilities there
for.
Every chilli should be protected
against labor that stunts growth,
either physical or mental, that limits
education. that deprives children of
the right Of comradeship, of JOY and
play.
Every child who is blind, deaf. Grip
pied or otherwise physically handi-
capped should be given expert study
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Is the possibility of relief. and ap-
prOpriate development or training.
Children with sub-normal or abnor-
NAL mental conditions should receive
adequate study. protection. training
and care. Every waif and orphan in
need must be supported.
Every child is entitled to the feeling
that he has a. home. The extension
Of the services in the community
should supplement and moi supplant
parents.
Children who habitually fail to
meet norma. standards of human be-
havior should b. provided special care
under the guidance Of the school. the