Newark's Last Fifteen Years, 1904-1919. The Story in OutlineNewark Public Library
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Newark's Last Fifteen Years, 1904-1919. The Story in Outline
Newark Public Library
Newark (N.J.) -- History
_Child Hygiene Division, Board of Health_: Established Aug., 1913, to
supervise care of new-born babies, to study causes of infant mortality
and to teach art and science of mothercraft. Chief, 4 clinic physicians
and 14 nurses now in attendance. Has continued work of consultation
stations, formerly directed by general board, at which advice is given
expectant mothers and mothers of children up to school age. Supervises
boarding-homes of infants up to 3 years of age, which by ordinance of
July 6, 1915, must be licensed by Health Bd. Also supervises unmarried
mothers and is planning convalescent home for them at Ivy Hill.
A supervisor of midwives was appointed Nov., 1914, to investigate and
report on practice of midwifery and has continued to direct work of
midwives, who attend 50% of the births of the city.
_Christmas Trees, Municipal_: The first tree, a Norway spruce, 48 ft.
high, with spread of 30 ft., was set up in Military Park, Christmas,
1913. Illuminated at night with 800 electric lights, and 50 in star shape
at top. Week of festival followed. Similar festivities held around trees
set up in the park next 2 years.
In 1916 a great Norway spruce was set up in south lawn fronting City
Hall. Inside the building, a smaller tree was placed in rotunda for week
of festival. These City Hall Christmas Festivals brought together old
and young, rich and poor, for singing and games and Christmas good cheer
of all kinds. For the past 2 years there has been no municipal Christmas
Tree, but Christmas festivities have been held in the City Hall.
_Churches_: Items of church history,--buildings erected, parish houses
annexed, missions established, etc.,--are too numerous to be recorded in
a brief, general outline. Detailed sketches of individual churches have
been written by Rev. Joseph F. Folsom and appended to Urquhart's History
of Newark, Vol. II., pp. 949-1020.
_City Home_: See Delinquent Children.
_City Plan Commission_: "City planning means development of our city
according to carefully prepared plans; stopping all further random
development, all haphazard extensions, and all improvements for certain
favored sections or limited localities. It means considering every
suggested change or improvement as to its effect on the entire city and
all suburbs and nearby towns.
"City planning is for all, and especially for the man of modest income.
It means better housing and attractive and healthful surroundings for
the humblest homes. It means securing for the cheapest tenement the
sunny, airy, sanitary conditions which health, science and common sense
demand.
"It means a City Efficient, a City Clean and a City Enjoyable."
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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