American CharitiesT. Y. Crowell, 1908 - 510 עמודים |
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abuses administration almshouse American amount applicants asylums average benevolent Board of Charities Boston causes of poverty Census cent Char character Charity Organization Society Charles Booth child child labor church Committee coöperation cost deaf death-rate defects degeneration dependent children destitute disease drink economic employment English epilepsy epileptic evil expenditure fact families feeble-minded foundling hospital give given heredity hospital income increase individual industrial infants influence inmates insane institutions intemperance investigation labor lack large number less living marriage Massachusetts ment mental methods moral North Dakota nursing occupations officials outdoor relief parents patients pauperism persons philanthropy placing-out poor poor-law population poverty line present private charity Professor proportion public relief received Report shows sickness social statistics subsidies supervision Table tendency tion total number treatment tuberculosis United vagrancy wage-earning Warner women workers workhouse York City
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 135 - Muslims; and then towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century...
עמוד 331 - In round numbers, of ten persons attacked by insanity, five recover, and five die, sooner or later, during the attack ; of the five who recover, not more than two remain well during the rest of their lives ; the other three sustain subsequent attacks, during which at least two of them die.
עמוד 271 - The Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of Charity in the city of New York...
עמוד 396 - I do not mean to cast any reflection upon any sect or person whatsoever ; but as there is such a multitude of sects, and such a diversity of opinion amongst them, I desire to keep the tender minds of the orphans, who are to derive advantage from this bequest, free from the excitement which clashing doctrines and sectarian controversy are so apt to produce.
עמוד 140 - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
עמוד 161 - Special Committee on Standard of Living of the New York State Conference of Charities and Corrections...
עמוד 13 - Amendment Act has the merit of courageously asserting, in opposition to many things. A chief social principle which this present writer, for one, will by no manner of means believe in, but pronounce at all fit times to be false, heretical and damnable, if ever aught was...
עמוד 76 - Of drink in all its combinations, adding to every trouble, undermining every effort after good, destroying the home, and cursing the young lives of the children, the stories tell enough.
עמוד 16 - Never will I believe that what makes a population stronger, and healthier, and wiser, and better, can ultimately make it poorer.
עמוד 172 - ... mother takes in sewing or goes out washing, secures a janitor's place, cleans offices, and does whatever she can to increase the weekly income. She feels this to be her duty, and often it is necessary, but frequently it has a disastrous effect on the ambition of the husband. As soon as he sees that the wife can help support the family, his interest and sense of responsibility are likely to lessen, and he works irregularly or spends more on himself.