Personal investigations of all applying for children should be made.
To estimate fully the importance of the achievements recorded in this
report requires some knowledge of the acute disturbance[1] within the
field of child-care in Chicago during the year or so preceding the
work of this board of visitors. To it is attributed the credit of
having brought harmony and efficiency out of the chaos produced by
the disruption and antagonism which marked the recently repudiated
county administration.