WOMAN’S WORK IN MUNICIPALITIES

About this eBook

Author

Mary Ritter Beard

Title

Woman's work in municipalities

Credits

Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

Subject

Civic improvement

Category

Text

eBook-No.

59678

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59678

Release Date

June 5, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.WOMAN’S WORK IN MUNICIPALITIES
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.INTRODUCTION
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.CHAPTER I EDUCATION — School Administration — Educational Experiments — Special Schools — The Visiting Teacher — Vocational Guidance — Vocational Education — School Buildings — Educational Associations — Libraries
6. 6.CHAPTER II PUBLIC HEALTH — Occupational Diseases — Family Visitation — District Nursing — Infant Mortality — Pure Milk — Ice — Child Welfare — Children Born Out of Wedlock — Pure Food — Pure Drugs — Pure Water — Public Baths — Public Laundries — Clean Streets — Garbage Disposal — Smoke — Flies, Mosquitoes, Rats — Noise — Health Associations
7. 7.CHAPTER III THE SOCIAL EVIL — Congress of Mothers — Vice Commissions — Publicity — Legislation — Judicial Decisions — Prevention — Suppression — Societies — Literature — Teaching of Sex Hygiene
8. 8.CHAPTER IV RECREATION — Playgrounds — Dance Halls — Clubs — Music — Motion Pictures — The Drama — The Pageant — Fourth of July — Social Centers — Experiments — Financing of Public Recreation
9. 9.CHAPTER V THE ASSIMILATION OF RACES — Investigations — A Literacy Test — Protective Work — Attitude of Settlements — The Negro — Club Work — Commissions — Fundamentals
10. 10.CHAPTER VI HOUSING — Homes for Working Women — Surveys — Reforms — Housing in Washington — Homes of Negroes — Juvenile Leagues — Housing Associations
11. 11.CHAPTER VII SOCIAL SERVICE — Associations — Southern Work — Associated Charities — Municipal Charities — Efficiency of Women — Charity Transformed — Community Responsibility — Attitude of Social Workers — Educating the Public by Exhibits — New York City — Chicago — Kansas City, Mo. — Northampton, Mass. — St. Louis, Mo. — Literature — Mothers’ Pensions — Other Legislation — Schools for Workers — Social Service and Politics
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII CORRECTIONS — Probation — Police Matrons — Policewomen — Juvenile Courts — Women Judges — Prison Investigations — Office Holding — Reforms — Legal Aid — Legislation — Prevention — Reformation — The Guarding of a City
13. 13.CHAPTER IX PUBLIC SAFETY
14. 14.CHAPTER X CIVIC IMPROVEMENT — City Planning — Participation of Women — Municipal Art — Tree Planting — Varied Activities — Controlling Suburbs — Value of Civic Improvement
15. 15.CHAPTER XI GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
16. 16.INDEX
17. 17.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

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