 | Melvil Dewey, Richard Rogers Bowker, Karl Brown, Charles Ammi Cutter, Bertine Emma Weston, Helen E. Wessells - 1914 - 660 pages
...Its duties are defined by statute as follows : "The said Bureau shall investigate and report on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and...investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth-rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1912 - 1266 pages
...known as the Children's Bureau. It is made the duty of this bureau to investigate and report to the department upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes and especially to investigate the question of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile... | |
 | 1914 - 644 pages
...Labor. Its duties were thus defined by law : The said bureau shall investigate and report ... on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and...investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth-rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents and diseases of... | |
 | Canada. Department of Labour - 1923 - 1422 pages
...$280,040 in the previous year. The activities of the Bureau, which are "to investigate and report, on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all cilasses of our people," were conducted through the correlated work of five divisions — industrial!,... | |
 | United States. Dept. of Commerce and Labor - 1903 - 828 pages
...Department. The functions of the new bureau as recited in the law are to investigate and report on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts,... | |
 | 1910 - 778 pages
...connected with the Department of Commerce and Labor. Its duties are "to investigate and report to the said department, upon all matters pertaining to the...and child life among all classes of our people," and it shall especially investigate the question of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, Juvenile... | |
 | 1912 - 100 pages
...shall be under the direction of a chief, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall receive an annual...investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth occupations, affecting official, or agent, or representative of said bureau shall, over the objection... | |
 | General Federation of Women's Clubs. Convention - 1912 - 628 pages
...law which prescribe the duties of the Federal Childrens' Bureau? The first clause is comprehensive : "The' said bureau shall investigate and report to...children and child life among all classes of our people." Without enumerating the details of the next sentence it is plain that such sweeping powers must be... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1912 - 378 pages
...very hard to know where to take hold. The act creating the bureau directs us to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children...and child life among all classes of our people, and that we shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage,... | |
 | 1912 - 1086 pages
...an important bureau. Its duties, as defined in the law creating it, are to "investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts,... | |
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The act directed the bureau to investigate and report upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people... 
