TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL SESSION HELD IN NEW HAVEN, CONN. EDITED BY ISABEL C. BARROWS Official Reporter of the Conference BOSTO PRESS OF GEO. H. ELLIS, I 1895 NOTE. This report (and those of former years not out of print) may be ordered of the Treasurer, John M. Glenn, Baltimore, Md. Price per copy, $1.50, with discounts as follows: ten copies and less than fifty, ten per cent. ; fifty copies and less than two hundred, twenty-five per cent. ; two hundred copies or over, forty per cent. J Repiace PREFACE. The twenty-second session of the National Conference of Charities and Correction was held in New Haven, Conn., May 24-30, 1895. As was anticipated, much time was given to the science of sociology; and several professors from various colleges and universities read papers or took part in the discussions. The chapter including these papers is one of the longest as well as one of the most valuable in the book. Special attention was given to "Public and Private Relief " and the kindred topic of "Charity Organization." A paper on "The Colored Insane" was the first that has been presented to the Conference on that subject. Seven brief papers on nursing and nurses, by as many trained nurses, were well received. "The Tramp Problem" was admirably treated, and two papers on "Soldiers' Homes" opened a new and important field for study and discussion. The section meetings were well organized, and many carefully prepared papers were read. The limits of this volume have made it impossible to include these in full. The chairman of the Committee on Child-saving resigned the space for his own address, that abstracts of some of the papers presented by his committee might appear. No reports and no papers were received from any other section save that on Charity Organization. The section meetings of that committee were phonographically reported; but, with the exception of abstracts of a few papers and extracts from the discussions, this report was with great regret necessarily omitted. The Charities' Review for June, 1895, however, prints the greater ! part of this matter, so that it is accessible to students of that branch. Forty-two pages are devoted to tables containing a directory of the State charitable and correctional institutions, prepared by Mr. George C. Cowie, of Minnesota. This is supposed to be the most complete list of State institutions ever made in this country. The General Secretary, Mr. H. H. Hart, asks to have any mistakes or changes reported to him (see page 397). The names of officers of State Boards were corrected up to November 1, and the list includes all of the State Boards in the country. The next meeting of the Conference will be held in Grand Rapids, Mich., in June, 1896, Mr. A. O. Wright, of Madison, Wis., President. BOSTON, MASS., Nov. 15, 1895. "The Development of Ethical Forces," by Rev. T. T. MUNGER 16 "The Best Method of Relief in Small Cities," by Rev. JOHN C. DELL "The Charity Organization Movement: Its Tendency and its Duty," by JEFFREY R. BRACKETT, Ph.D. "Continued Care of Families," by FRANCES A. SMITH "Is Emergency Relief by Work Wise?" by PHILIP W. AYRES |