APPENDIX 2 CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES EXPLANATORY NOTE The Classifications of Activities have for their purpose to list and classify in all practicable detail the specific activities engaged in by the several services of the national government. Such statements are of value from a number of standpoints. They furnish, in the first place, the most effective showing that can be made in brief compass of the character of work performed by the service to which they relate. Secondly, they lay the basis for a system of accounting and reporting that will permit the showing of total expenditures classified according to activities. Finally, taken collectively, they make possible the preparation of a general or consolidated statement of the activities of the government as a whole. Such statement will reveal in detail, not only what the government is doing, but the services in which the work is being performed. For example, one class of activities that would probably appear in such classification is that of "scientific research." A subhead under this class would be "chemical research." Under this head would appear the specific lines of investigation under way and the services in which they were being prosecuted. It is hardly necessary to point out the value of such information in planning for future work and in considering the problem of the better distribution and coördination of the work of the government. The Institute contemplates such a general listing and classification of the activities of the government upon the completion of the present series. CLASSIFICATION OF ACTIVITIES I. Investigating and reporting on 1. Matters pertaining to the hygiene of children, including Special health problems of different developmental periods, as preschool and adolescence 2. Children in need of special care Dependent and neglected children Causes and prevention of dependency and neglect Mothers' pensions Special problems of children born out of wedlock Juvenile delinquents Juvenile courts Social conditions making for delinquency Methods of care and training Mentally defective or physically handicapped children Special social problems 3. Child labor Extent, conditions, causes, and effects Methods of regulation Transition from school to work 4. General Recreation Child welfare in the insular possessions II. Promoting the welfare of children I. Publication and distribution of scientific and popular material 2. Demonstration conferences in infant and child hygiene 3. Coöperation with State and other bodies in formulating and executing child-welfare programs Other departments of the Federal Government and national societies interested in some part of the field of child welfare III. Administering the Maternity and Infancy Act 1. Coöperation with the agency designated by each state 2. Such studies, investigations, and reports as will promote Maternal mortality 3. Certification to the Secretary of the Treasury and to the treasurers of the states of the amount apportioned to each state for the fiscal year 4. General administration of the act APPENDIX 3 PUBLICATIONS The publications of the Children's Bureau consist of the annual report of the Chief, Bureau publications, leaflets, and child-welfare dodgers. The Bureau publications are numbered serially. In the following list they are classified according to subject. General Child Welfare *No. 1. The Children's Bureau: A circular containing the text of the law establishing the bureau and a brief outline of the plans for immediate work. 5 pp. 1912. *No. 2. Birth Registration: An aid in protecting the lives and rights of children. 20 pp. 1914. *No. 5. Handbook of Federal Statistics of Children: Number of children in the United States, with their sex, age, race, nativity, parentage, and geographic distribution. 106 pp. 1914. *No. 14. Child-Welfare Exhibits: Types and preparation, by Anna Louise Strong, Ph. D. 58 pp. 1915. *No. 21. Summary of Child-Welfare Laws Passed in 1916. 74 PP. 1917. No. 28. Governmental Provisions in the United States and Foreign Countries for Members of the Military Forces and their Dependents, prepared under the direction of Capt. S. Herbert Wolfe, Q.M., U.S.R., detailed by the Secretary of War. 236 pp. 1917. No. 36. Save 100,000 Babies, Get a Square Deal for Children. 8 pp. 1918. No. 40. Children's Year Working Program, prepared in collaboration with the Department of Child Welfare of the Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense. 12 pp. 1918. *No. 44. Patriotic Play Week. Suggestions to Local Committees. 8 pp. 1918. No. 54. An Outline for a Birth-Registration Test. 13 pp. 1919. No. 60. Standards of Child Welfare: A report of the Children's Bureau conferences, May and June, 1919. 459 pp. 1919. Separates which comprise the same material are as follows: Separate No. 2. Standards. Child Labor. *Separate No. 3. The Health of Children and Mothers. Separate No. 4. Children in Need of Special Care and Standardization of Child-Welfare Laws. No. 62. Minimum Standards for Child Welfare Adopted by the Washington and Regional Conferences on Child Welfare, 1919. 15 pp. 1920. No. 67. Children's Year: A brief summary of work done and suggestions for follow-up work. 19 pp. and 2 maps. 1920. *No. 71. State Commissions for the Study and Revision of Child-Welfare Laws, by Emma O. Lundberg and Ruth H. Olmsted. 43 pp. 1920. (Superseded by No. 131.) No. 73. Child-Welfare Programs: Study Outlines for the Use of Clubs and Classes, by Mrs. Max West and Nettie McGill. 35 pp. 1920. No. 75. Illegitimacy as a Child-Welfare Problem: Part 2. A study of original records in the City of Boston, and in the State of Massachusetts, by Emma O. Lundberg and Katharine F. Lenroot. 408 pp. 1921. *No. 84. Average Heights and Weights of Children Under Six Years of Age. (Same information available in Chart No. 12.) No. 87. Statures and Weights of Children Under Six Years of Age, by Robert Morse Woodbury, Ph. D. 117 pp. 1921. No. 102. Children of Wage-Earning Mothers: A study of a selected group in Chicago, by Helen Russel Wright. 92 pp. 1922. No. 122. Children of Preschool Age in Gary, Ind.: Part 1. General Conditions Affecting Child Welfare, by Elizabeth Hughes. Part 2. Diet of the Children, by Lydia Roberts. 175 PP. 1923. No. 125. Unemployment and Child Welfare: A study made in a middle-western and an eastern city during the industrial depression of 1921 and 1922, by Emma O. Lundberg. 173 pp. 1923. No. 127. Child Welfare in the Insular Possessions of the United States, Part 1. Porto Rico, by Helen V. Bary. 75 pp. 1923. No. 128. Illegitimacy as a Child-Welfare Problem: Part 3, Methods of care in selected urban and rural communities. 260 pp. 1924. |