A Guide to the Study of Charities and Correction by Means of the Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections; Using Thirty-Four Volumbes, 1874 to 1907 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: basis. The difficulty of the undertaking is shown in the differences between the methods of accounting, especially in the degree to which the published reports show classification of items. Several pages of tables are given, and a special department of the paper is devoted to a comparative analysis of salaries. State and National Registration of the Dependent, the Defective and the Delinquent. President's address. Oscar C. McCulloch 91, 10. This is a plea for full statistical work by the State Boards of Charities. The paper presents in an eloquent way the great- army of defectives, dependents and criminals, "captives of civilization, who march haltingly behind the triumphal car of progress." pp. 15 and 16 give a statement of present registration, and p. 17 presents a possible plan. Outdoor Relief: Conditions, Methods and Statistics. Committee report by Chas. R. Henderson 94, 107. This begins with a brief statement of the origin of out door relief and the laws governing it. P. 108, posits the question as to the purpose and scope of statistics of out door relief. The remainder of the essay deals with the alleged impossibility of obtaining such statistics by the Census Department, and discusses what has been done in Germany and, briefly, in England. P. 112 has a favorable criticism of some work in Hartford, Conn. Many reports from private societies are analyzed. On p. 117 is shown the fruits of an attempt to compile a table of the subject from a few States. Statistics of Insanity. See Insanity and Immigration. F. B. Sanborn 98, 268. Special Field of National Legislation. Committee report by W. W. Folwell 01, 112. This in an inquiry as to the limits of Federal and State legislation about Charities and Correction, more especially in their departments of stati...