This booklet is reprinted from Chapter 117, Session of 190,7 of the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey (revised at Session of 1908, Chapter 108). It presents New Jersey’s playground law, which permits the mayor of any city in the state to appoint three people from that city to a Board of Playground Commissioners for that city. It goes on to discuss the duties of the board.
This booklet contains two articles reprinted from The Playground. The first discusses the obstacles to developing playgrounds in social centers—namely, the narrow views of taxpayers, the clash of selfish interests in playgrounds’ location and distribution, and the hostility of immediate neighbors on account of the noise and disturbance of so many children at play. The second discusses the importance of playgrounds in cities generally.
GEORGE M. FORBES was president of the Board of Education in Rochester, New York.
HIRAM H. EDGERTON was mayor of Rochester, New York, from 1908 to 1921.
This booklet, reprinted from The Playground, includes two articles: one about how the commissioners of Rochester, New York, inaugurated playgrounds in both larger and smaller parks in the city, and one about the value of playgrounds in cities generally.
ALEXANDER B. LAMBERTON was president of the Board of Park Commissioners of Rochester, New York.
HIRAM H. EDGERTON was the mayor of Rochester, New York, from 1908 to 1921.
This booklet, reprinted from Proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress, discusses what the New York City Board of Education has done to provide facilities for children’s play outside school hours, what additional facilities for recreation might be provided, and some suggestions for the administration of children’s recreation.
WILLIAM H. MAXWELL was the superintendent of schools, New York City.
This booklet covers the development in the United States of schools for the training of guards and other prison officers modeled on one in England. Topics include the U.S. Training School at 427 West Street in New York City, the Keepers’ Training School on New York’s Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island), and the British Training School in Wakefield, England. The booklet also contains forms relating to candidates for prison service in England and Wales.
HASTINGS H. HART was a consultant in delinquency and penology at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This article, from the Woman’s Medical Journal of January 2013, is a reprint of a 1912 report by the Russell Sage Foundation. It deals with infant mortality and the means of combating it by the instruction and care of expectant mothers. It provides a summary of characteristic features of certain cities personally investigated by the author.
ELLEN C. BABBITT worked in the Child-Helping Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet discusses what 1,038 U.S. cities are doing for the health of school children. The first part discusses medical inspection, including the history of medical inspection, administration, and kinds of medical inspection. The second part covers hygiene of the school room, including outdoor recesses, individual drinking cups and sanitary fountains, modern methods of dusting and sweeping, and instruction in alcohol, tobacco, tuberculosis, and first aid.
This booklet presents the result of a study of play for children in institutions presented in a series of five conferences at the invitation of the State Board of Charities of New York. It discusses the function and value of play as well as requisites for play and the adaptation of play for various age groups.
ROBERT K. ATKINSON was a researcher who studied children’s institutions in the United States.
This booklet discusses schools in the North and Lowland South known as “mountain mission schools” as distinguished from public schools and from well-endowed private schools. After describing the character of these schools, it describes how these schools can have a positive impact on generations of people in the region.
JOHN C. CAMPBELL was the secretary of the Southern Highland Division of the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet provides a summary of the architectural plans for the jail in Burlington County, New Jersey. It includes discussion of standards for a model jail as well as an analysis of the general evils of county jails and their remedies.
ROBERT MILLS was an architect who designed the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
GEORGE J. GIGER was director of inspections at the Department of Institutions and Agencies for the State of New Jersey.