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Title: Mother and child
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Whipple, Guy M. Provision for the education of gifted children in the United States American Child Health Association American Child Hygiene Association National Child Health Council (U.S.). Child health in Erie County, New York
Subjects: Child health services Child welfare Children Maternal health services Mothers Child Health Services Child Welfare Maternal Health Services
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : American Child Hygiene Association
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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of the necessityfor child welfare work which couldnot be secured in any other way. Health On WheelsIn The Wake Of The Child Welfare Special* Frances Sage Bradley, M. D. AN experiment in the use of theautomobile as a means ofreaching rural communities withthe gospel of child welfare, is stillbeing carried on by the ChildrensBureau of the Department ofLabor. Similar work has been donein the rural sections of Connecticut, * The Childrens Bureau. U. S. Depart-ment of Labor, has a pamphlet, whichmay be had for the asking, giving thecost, equipment, and other details ofThe Child Welfare Special. Vermont, Michigan, New York andin Cook County, Illinois, all pat-terned somewhat after the style ofmovable clinics used in and aroundCleveland, Ohio. The ChildrensBureau truck is known as the ChildWelfare Special. The object of this experiment is: (1) To interest rural communi-ties in better physical and mentaldevelopment of children. (2) To inspire a sense of indi-vidual and municipal obligation in
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The Child Welfare Special27 28 FRANCES SAGE BRADLEY relation to the welfare of children.(3) To suggest methods of se-curing the same by means of bet-ter medical and nursing service,looking toward the ultimate estab-lishment of permanent child wel-fare centers. CO-OPERATION The Special goes only upon in-vitation of a State Board of Health.This insures the interest and co-operation of local organizations,such as the County Medical Society,County Board of Education, Boardof Trade, Womens Clubs, etc.With the assistance of these bodiesan itinerary of the country is ar-ranged. Meetings at which theneed for a vigorous nation is ex-plained, are held in the chief townsof a county. Leadership is en-couraged by the selection of a com-mittee in larger towns or of a chair-man or hostess in the smaller set-tlements. These are responsible forsecuring certain publicity, for mak-ing appointments with families de-siring a conference, and for thecomfort of mothers and childrenwhile waiting. ADVANCE PUBL

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