The Work Of Child Placing Agencies

Excerpt from The Work of Child-Placing Agencies: Part I. A Social Study of Ten Agencies Caring for Dependent Children; Part II. Health Supervision of Children Placed in Foster Homes Sir: There Is transmitted herewith a report on the work of child placing agencies, which includes ih Part I a social study of 10 agenc1es caring for dependent children and In Part II a study of the health supervision of children placed 111 foster homes. The field work for the social study of the child placing agencies was done by L. Josephine Webster and Katharine P. Hewins during the period from November, 1922, to April, 1923. Miss Hewins wrote the general section Of Part I and the individual descriptions of the three Massachusetts agencies; Miss Webster wrote the descriptions of the other seven agencies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.