Footnote 172:
This paragraph is taken, with slight changes, from my paper on The
Problem of the Underfed Children in our Public Schools, in the
_Independent_, May 11, 1905.
Footnote 173:
See the Official Report of the National Labor Conference on the State
Maintenance of Children, Held at the Guildhall, London, etc.
Footnote 174:
See, for instance, the evidence given by Mr. John Tweedy, F.R.C.S. and
L.R.C.P., President of the Royal College of Surgeons and of the
Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, before the
Interdepartmental Committee.
Footnote 175:
Physical Efficiency in Children, by Sir James Crichton Browne, in the
Report of the International Congress for the Welfare and Protection of
Children, London, 1902.
See also the Reports of the Interdepartmental Committee and the Royal
Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), for descriptions of the
systems adopted in various European cities.
The Medical Inspection of School Children, by W. L. Mackenzie, M.A.,
M.D.
For a very suggestive, but technical, account of a system of medical
inspection adopted in Dundee, Scotland, see the Report of
Investigation into Social Conditions, published by the Dundee Social
Union,—Part I, The Medical Inspection of School Children.
Footnote 176:
The Heritage of the Hungry, by Robert Hunter.
Footnote 177:
Special Reports on Educational Subjects, issued by the (English) Board
of Education.
Footnote 178:
Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), Report.
Footnote 179:
_Idem._
Footnote 180:
Poverty, by Robert Hunter, p. 259.
Footnote 181:
The importance of attending to the teeth of school children has been
sadly overlooked in the United States. In some of our cities, notably
Rochester, N.Y., the attention of the medical inspectors of the
schools has been specially directed to the teeth, with important
results. See, for instance, the paper by Dr. Goler on Some General
Tuberculosis Problems, in the _New York State Journal of Medicine_,
August, 1905.
Footnote 182:
Bulletin of the U. S. Bureau of Labor, No. 59, p. 309.
Footnote 183:
The Field before the National Child Labor Committee, by Homer Folks,
in _Charities_, October 1, 1904.
Child Labor and the Schools, by Florence Lucas Sanville, in
_Charities_, August 26, 1905.
Illiterate Children in the Great Industrial States, by Florence
Kelley, reprinted from _Charities_.
Footnote 184:
Child Labor.—The Street, by Ernest Poole.
Children in American Street Trades, by Myron E. Adams, in the Annals
of the American Academy, May, 1905.
The Employment of Children, with Special Reference to Street Trading,
by Robert Peacock, Chief Constable of Manchester (England). A Paper
read at the Third International Congress for the Welfare and
Protection of Children, London, 1902.—Report, pp. 191–202.
See also the evidence given by various witnesses before the Royal
Commission on Physical Training (Scotland).
Footnote 185:
Education and the Larger Life, by C. Hanford Henderson, p. 142.