CHILD WELFARE
CONFERENCE AT WHITE HOUSE
(From "The Post's" Representative.)
NEW YORK, 13 th November.
President Hoover has given notice jthat, a year hence, a Conference will bo called at the' White House to determine the "facts of our present progress and our future needs in this great field, and to make recommendations for measures for more effective official and voluntary action and their co-or-dination as will further develop the care and protection of children." In the interim, the President hopes that a general study will.be made of the facts, and forces in progress and the work of the organisations in each field The subjects to be covered embrace problems of dependent children, regular medical examination, school or public clinics for children, hospitalisation, adequate milk supply, community nurses, maternity instruction and nurses, teaching of health in the schools, facilities for playgrounds and recreation, volunteer organisation of children. child labour and allied subjects. n J r, om Private sources a sum of £100 . OUU has been placed at the President's disposal to meet expenses of preliminary investigation and the national .Confer-
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 11
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180CHILD WELFARE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 152, 24 December 1929, Page 11
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