American Charities: A Study in Philanthropy and EconomicsCrowell, 1908 - 430 עמודים |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
abuses administration almshouse American amount applicants asylums average benevolent Board of Charities causes of poverty Census cent character Charity Organization Society Charles Booth child child labor church Committee coöperation cost deaf death-rate defective 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 influence inmates insane institutions intemperance investigation labor lack large number less living marriage Massachusetts ment mental methods moral North Dakota nurses occupations officials outdoor relief parents patients pauperism persons philanthropy placing-out political poor poor-law population poverty line present private charity Professor proportion public charities public relief received Report shows sickness social statistics subsidies supervision Table tendency tion total number treatment tuberculosis United vagrancy wage-earning women workers workhouse York City
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 140 - Muslims; and then towards the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century...
עמוד 336 - 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 276 - The Foundling Asylum of the Sisters of Charity in the city of New York...
עמוד 401 - 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 8 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me : my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
עמוד 166 - States having less than $1200 a year income, by the United States Commissioner of Labor ; a second, of 200 families in New York City, by Mrs. Louise Boland More, under the auspices of the Greenwich House Committee on Social Investigations ; and a third, of 612 families (chiefly in New York City), by the Special Committee on Standard of Living of the New York State Conference of Charities and Corrections.1 It would be impossible to compare the results of these studies with the European investigations...
עמוד 185 - Committee believes that with an income of between $700 and $800 a family can barely support itself, provided that it is subject to no extraordinary expenditures by reason of sickness, death, or other untoward circumstances. Such a family can live without charitable assistance through exceptional management and in the absence of emergencies...
עמוד 68 - He is young, able-bodied, more or less dissipated, capable of earning good wages, but rarely in a mood for making the exertion, and, above all, he is lacking in the quality which makes an obligation to others outweigh considerations of personal comfort or preference. This combination of characteristics makes him susceptible to attractions of various sorts; it incapacitates him for dealing in a philosophic spirit with the elements of discord which exist in every household; and it prevents him from...
עמוד 81 - 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 197 - Our children's children may learn with amazement how we thought it a natural social phenomenon that men should die in their prime, leaving wives and children in terror of want ; that accidents should make an army of maimed dependents; that there should not be enough houses for workers ; and that epidemics should sweep away multitudes as autumn frost sweeps away summer insects.