Child Health Bulletin, Volumes 4-6

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American Child Health Association., 1928 - Child care
Includes section "Child health literature".
 

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Page 58 - If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year, Do you suppose,' the Walrus said, 'That they could get it clear?' 'I doubt it,' said the Carpenter, And shed a bitter tear.
Page 137 - It represented no association, but was opened by two women, backed by many friends, in the belief that the mere foothold of a house, easily accessible, ample in space, hospitable and tolerant in spirit, situated in the midst of the large foreign colonies which so easily isolate themselves in American cities, would be in itself a serviceable thing for Chicago. Hull House endeavors to make social intercourse express the growing sense of the economic unity of society. It is an effort to add the social...
Page 57 - Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education for the Year 1931.
Page 160 - ... price of every pound of cottonseed oil. This favorable effect which the margarine market has upon the price of cottonseed oil is, of course, reflected in the price which the cotton producer receives for his cottonseed. On the average, oil accounts for 55 percent of the value of a ton of cottonseed, and the United States Department of Agriculture is authority for the statement that "changes in the price of oil usually are accompanied by corresponding changes in the price of cottonseed.
Page 103 - Association, the National League of Nursing Education, and the National Organization for Public Health Nursing.
Page 137 - In time it came to seem natural to all of us that the Settlement should be there. If it is natural to feed the hungry and care for the sick, it is certainly natural to give pleasure to the young, comfort to the aged, and to minister to the deep-seated craving for social intercourse that all men feel. Whoever does it is rewarded by something which, if not gratitude, is at least spontaneous and vital and lacks that irksome sense of obligation with which a substantial benefit is too often acknowledged.
Page 137 - To provide a center for a higher civic and social life, to initiate and maintain religious, educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago.
Page 53 - Birth, Stillbirth, and Infant Mortality Statistics for the Birth Registration Area of the United States: 1918, Washington, Government Printing Office, 1920, p.
Page 153 - As chairman ( 1934-1935) of the division of anthropology and psychology of the National Research Council, he was able to advance the convergence of interest, which he pioneered, between anthropology and psychiatry.
Page 128 - I need not urge upon you the fundamental importance of this undertaking. The greatest asset of a race is its children, that their bodily strength and development should prepare them to receive the heritage which each generation must bequeath to the next. These questions have the widest of social importance, that reaches to the roots of democracy itself. By the safeguard of health and protection of childhood we further contribute to that equality of opportunity which is the unique basis of American...

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