Excerpt from Child Welfare Work in Pennsylvania: A Co-Operative Study of Child-Helping Agencies and Institutions This volume contains the report of a co-operative study, with various inferences drawn from the facts presented in the statistics, and a number of suggestions for the improvement of existing conditions. The scope of the study included all organized welfare work in the state of Pennsylvania in behalf of dependent, delinquent, and defective children. The Introduction by Dr. Hastings H. Hart is a resume of child-helping methods and conditions with some remarkable statistics comparing Pennsylvania with several other states. One chapter of the book is given to general comments and recommendations. Three are devoted to matters of state-wide significance - state supervision of children's institutions, care and segregation of the feeble-minded, and some revised and recent statutes. The final chapter discusses the relations of social and religious forces in betterment work. Attention is called to recommendations in regard to the following: 1. Program in Reference to Mental Defectives (pages 15 and 274) 2. Girard College (pages 16 and 250) 3. Subsidizing Private Institutions (page 21) 4. State Supervision of Children's Institutions (pages 27 and 256) 5. A State Program (pages 31 and 295) 6. A Children's Code (pages 32 and 252) 7. Agency and Institutional Records (pages 239 and 301) 8. Systematic Study and Investigation (page 240) 9. Placing-out Work (page 247) 10. Misguided Benevolence (page 249) 11. A Children's Department (page 263) 12. Mothers Assistance Matters (page 276) The book is intended also to be a manual of reference. It contains a very complete list of Pennsylvania's child-caring institutions, and many important details in regard to each of them. To facilitate its use as a ready reference volume, two carefully prepared indexes are placed at its close. One is an alphabetical list of the 343 agencies and institutions studied, with locations; the other, a general index covering the text and tables. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.