That Last Waif; or, Social QuarantineFletcher, Horace
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That Last Waif; or, Social Quarantine
Fletcher, Horace
Child welfare
The best work is secured through committees whose aim has been defined
by an executive committee, composed of the officers, _ex-officio_, and
the chairmen or chairwomen of the separate committees.
SUGGESTED LIST OF COMMITTEES.
Committee on Districts or Wards and Census of Children Needing Care,
and also on available rentable rooms to accommodate the neglected in
groups of not more than fifteen or twenty in each class. There may be
several classes in each school, all under the supervision of one
director, and assistants.
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Committee on Estimates and Finance.
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Committee on Securing the Services of Scientifically Trained Teachers,
to serve as directors, and on Securing Volunteer Teachers, in process
of training, to serve as assistants.
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Committee on Securing Initial Support until government shall take over
the schools which have proved to be efficient nurseries of good
citizenship on demand of the people. Experience teaches that this
method of introduction and progress towards proper public
establishment and support is natural and speedy, as the result of the
merit of the process of citizen culture suggested.
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Committee on Suitable Nourishment and Clothing for destitute children.
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Committee on Parallel Sanitary and Cleanliness Requirements, which
must claim attention in connection with the reclamation of children
from unsanitary and uncleanly surroundings.
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Committee on Emulation for individual or sectional neighborhood
cleanliness and for home or neighborhood decoration; this outside of
the schools, where no prizes should be given.
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Committee on Crèches.
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Committee on Kindergartens.
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Committee on Manual Training Equipments.
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Committee on Domestic Science Equipments.
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Committee on Vacant Lots to Be Used as Vegetable Patches, by which to
teach nature study, and through means of which to offer prizes for the
best results of growth obtained.
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Committee on General Amusements of character-building or habit-forming
suggestiveness.
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Committee on Circulating and Traveling Libraries, aiming to reach
remote country districts, tributary to the urban community.
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Committee on Stereopticon View Circulation, in connection with other
organizations so as to bring the world to the children and to their
parents.
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