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Housing in Springfield, Illinois

A Study by the National Housing Association
Author
John Ihlder
Ebook
Publication Date
38 pages

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A volume of the Springfield Survey published in 1914, this report presents a clear idea of the housing conditions in Springfield at the time, as well as the methods taken to keep conditions up to standard. Topics include land overcrowding, unhealthy circumstances in apartments, and housing for miners, with an argument of what the city could do to improve conditions.

JOHN IHLDER, Springfield Survey Committee

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Cover image of the book Juvenile Court Laws in the United States
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Juvenile Court Laws in the United States

Editor
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
160 pages

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This 1910 book is a study of juvenile court laws in the United States, including a summary of all juvenile court legislation in the country until that time and an abstract of state laws governing the trial and disposition of juvenile offenders, divided by state and topic. This volume is intended to supplement Preventive Treatment of Neglected Children by Hastings. H. Hart.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Registration of Illegitimate Births

A Preventive of Infant Mortality
Author
Hastings H. Hart
Ebook
Publication Date
25 pages

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A paper read before the American Public Health Association at Rochester, New York in 1915.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Extinction of the Defective Delinquent

A Working Program
Author
Hastings H. Hart
Hardcover
Publication Date
18 pages

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A paper read before the American Prison Association in Baltimore in 1912.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Sources of Information on Play and Recreation

Authors
Lee F. Hanmer
Howard R. Knight
Ebook
Publication Date
43 pages

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A condensed list of early research on recreation, published by the foundation in 1915.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

HOWARD R. KNIGHT, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation

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Athletics in the Public Schools

Author
Lee F. Hanmer
Hardcover
Publication Date
38 pages

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Athletics in the Public Schools was published by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation.  The study explores sports curriculums offered at the time, it also delves into the beginnings of athletics in schools in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Medical Certification for Marriage

Author
Fred S. Hall
Ebook
Publication Date
92 pages

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An account of the administration of the Wisconsin marriage laws in 1925.

FRED S. HALL was associate director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Medical Inspection of Schools

Authors
Luther H. Gulick
Leonard P. Ayres
Ebook
Publication Date
285 pages

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This book, originally published in 1908 and with a new edition in 1913, is a guide to medical inspections in schools, detailing what practices were being done at the time and what problems and difficulties were present in regards to children's health in schools.

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.

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Fatigue and Efficiency

A Study in Industry
Author
Josephine Goldmark
Ebook
Publication Date
352 pages

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Published in 1912, this book is an exploration of the relationship between fatigue and rest with industrialism and how this relationship can be applied to the rational industrial procedure for a more humane industry. It is a powerful plea for the alleviation of workers on rational, scientific grounds for the promotion of human efficiency.

JOSEPHINE GOLDMARK was publication secretary of the National Consumers' League.

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Sterilization and Segregation

Author
Henry H. Goddard
Ebook
Publication Date
12 pages

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This 1912 paper analyzes the various issues behind a proposal aimed at preventing the increase of criminals, the sterilization of the mentally deficient. It looks into the legal problems surrounding such a proposal, as well as an alternative segregation plan, to document the proposal’s ineffectiveness.

HENRY H. GODDARD was professor at the Department of Research at the Vineland Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, Vineland, N.J.

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