Hearing before the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine, United States Senate, sixty-sixth Congress, second session, on S3259U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 |
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... born into families where the fathers ' earnings were below the amount which was at that time the minimum for providing the bare necessities of existence . Only 1 in 10 was in a family where the fathers ' earnings reached a fair minimum ...
... born into families where the fathers ' earnings were below the amount which was at that time the minimum for providing the bare necessities of existence . Only 1 in 10 was in a family where the fathers ' earnings reached a fair minimum ...
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... born it is impossible to rely solely upon local funds initiative , otherwise the figures would not show the present extreme variations in localities of varying resources . The figures of family income gathered by the bureau prove ...
... born it is impossible to rely solely upon local funds initiative , otherwise the figures would not show the present extreme variations in localities of varying resources . The figures of family income gathered by the bureau prove ...
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... born women and Negroes who , together with a considerable proportion of the women living in the country districts , are attended by midwives . These are in great part ignorant women who have had little or no training , so that if bad ...
... born women and Negroes who , together with a considerable proportion of the women living in the country districts , are attended by midwives . These are in great part ignorant women who have had little or no training , so that if bad ...
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... born in well regulated clinics in this country are either dead born or died within two weeks after birth , and when we come to study the causes of these deaths we find that the most common one is something which is not generally known ...
... born in well regulated clinics in this country are either dead born or died within two weeks after birth , and when we come to study the causes of these deaths we find that the most common one is something which is not generally known ...
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... born 28 years ago . So it is , as the doctor said , a peril which every woman will dread , but which can be cured by medical skill if taken in time . The women of the South are doing what they can to spread the news among the women of ...
... born 28 years ago . So it is , as the doctor said , a peril which every woman will dread , but which can be cured by medical skill if taken in time . The women of the South are doing what they can to spread the news among the women of ...
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119 West Fortieth American Child Hygiene ANDERSON appropriation approval authorized birth board of health board of maternal bureaus of child cent CHAIRMAN Child Hygiene Association child welfare childbirth Children's Bureau committee confinement Congress cooperation DEAR SIR department of health disease doctor Editor Good Housekeeping expenditure favor Federal board fiscal glad Governor Henry Street Settlement hospital hygiene of maternity infant hygiene infant mortality infant welfare Johns Hopkins Hospital KELLEY KEYES Labor large numbers legislation legislature letter maternal death maternity and infancy ment midwives Miss DINES mortality rate mothers and babies mothers and children National obstetrics organizations physician pregnancy prenatal preventable protection of maternity Public Health Service public protection question Representative TOWNER RUDE Schick test Secretary Senate bill 3259 Senator RANSDELL Senator Sheppard Sheppard bill Sheppard-Towner STATEMENT OF MISS statistics syphilis tion W. F. BIGELOW West Fortieth Street Whitridge Williams woman women York City
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Page 5 - No portion of said fund nor the interest thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
Page 5 - If any portion of the fund invested as provided by the foregoing section, or any portion of the interest thereon, shall, by any action or contingency, be diminished or lost, it shall be replaced by the State to which it belongs, so that the capital of the fund shall remain forever undiminished...
Page 4 - Within sixty days after the close of each fiscal year the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine what part, if any, of the sums theretofore deducted for...
Page 5 - Act a sum equal to such unexpended portion; (5) to withhold the allotment of moneys to any State whenever it shall be determined that moneys allotted are not being expended for the purposes and conditions of this Act...
Page 59 - The act directed the bureau to investigate and report upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 5 - State is entitled to receive under the provisions of this Act. Upon such certification the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay quarterly to the custodian for vocational education of each State the moneys to which it is entitled under the provisions of this Act.
Page 4 - That within sixty days after the approval of this Act the Secretary of Agriculture shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury and to each...
Page 3 - That no payment out of the additional appropriations herein provided shall be made in any year to any State until an equal sum has been appropriated for that year by the Legislature of such State, or provided by State, county, college, local authority, or individual contributions from within the State, for the maintenance of the co-operative agricultural extension work provided for in this Act.
Page 5 - Said sums shall be allotted to the States in the proportion which their population bears to the total population of the United States...
Page 4 - Federal board shall recognize such local board for the purposes of this Act until the legislature of such State meets in due course and has been in session sixty days. Any State may accept the...