This booklet, reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association of September 18, 1909, contains the seventh annual compilation of deaths and injuries resulting from Fourth of July celebrations. It notes an increase in cases of tetanus, which is caused by the use of blank cartridges in fireworks, and it offers rules for the treatment of blank-cartridge and puncture wounds.
This booklet, reprinted from The Forum, addresses the desire to find a safer way to celebrate Independence Day. It notes that Mrs. Rice, in her capacity as president of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, sent letters to governors, mayors, and other authorities, and the pamphlet reprints a selection of responses.
MRS. ISAAC L. RICE was president of the Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, New York City.
The Charity Organization Bulletins were printed for the confidential use of charity organization societies by the Charity Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. The bulletins for December 1911 through November 1912 cover topics such as street venders and peddlers, runaways, mental health care, methods of raising money, and the relation between medical work and social work.
The Charity Organization Bulletins were printed for the confidential use of charity organization societies by the Charity Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. The bulletins for December 1910 through November 1911 cover topics such as mental health care, the treatment of widows and deserted wives, homelessness, and how to record social work cases.
This booklet provides several tables on the status of physical education at public schools in the United States. Tables include information on how many schools (and in what regions) have a department of physical education, regular instruction in hygiene, swimming pools, gymnasiums, tennis courts, boat houses, and so on.
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet provides an argument for medical inspection of schools. It notes that the American population now lives predominantly in towns and cities rather than on farms and the school has become the center of infection in most communities. Medical inspection in schools allows authorities to detect contagious diseases and protect healthy children from those who are ill, stopping or preventing epidemics.
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.
The Charity Organization Bulletins were printed for the confidential use of charity organization societies by the Charity Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. The bulletins for December 1909 through November 1910 cover topics such as Christmas giving, medical education in America, the training of social workers, and tuberculosis and relief.
This booklet presents the address of General George W. Wingate to the annual meeting of the Public Schools Athletic League held on December 7, 1909, in New York City.
GEORGE W. WINGATE was president of the Public Schools Athletic League.
This booklet reprints an article from the American Physical Education Review, February 1908. It is a report of an address given before the Second Annual Convention of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, in New York City, on December 28, 1907. It argues that athletics are important for the values that they instill in those who play sports.
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet discusses the reasons for the slowing of students’ progress in schools. It includes a text reprinted from the tenth annual report of Dr. William H. Maxwell, superintendent of schools of New York City, as well as an investigation by Leonard P. Ayres, with the assistance of Luther Halsey Gulick, into this problem in fifteen schools in Manhattan.
LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.
LUTHER HALSEY GULICK was director of physical training of the New York public schools.
WILLIAM H. MAXWELL was superintendent of schools of New York City.