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Tttt Scolf of rtus Dteatrutvr.
To this Committee is especially assigned for consideration the tollowing
theme trom the original announcement of the Auxiliary:
The most efficient and advisable means of preventins or decreasins
insanity and crime, and of increasins productive ability, prosperity and virtue
throughout the world: AAlso assigned to the Committee on Temperance.
In organizins this Department the President mentions the tollowins
themes to indicate its scope, and elicit the suggestions of the members of the
Committees, and the members of the Advisory Councits of the Department,
and the General Honorary and Correspondins Members of the Auxiliary, 10
be utilired in makins the final arrangements tor the proposed Congresses:
a. The origin, development, history, results and prospects of charitable
movements and organirations.
The origin, development, history, results and prospects of Penal
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Institutions.
c. The origin, development, history, results and prospects of Preventive
Institutions.
8.
Statisties of Moral and Social Reform, and the lessons they teach.
The duties of Covernment to the classes that are unable or unwilling
to conform to the necessary rules of public and private order.
s. In particular, the right and the duty to expend a part of the public
revenues tor the prevention of insanity, pauperism, disease, vice
and crime; and the protection of society theretrom, on grounds
of public policy and economy.
S. Public Boards and Inspectors of Charity: their powers, methods and
utility.
h. Charitable, Penal and Preventive Legislation, and what reforms
should be recommendea therein.
1. Helpless and Dependent Children; what should be done with them
Public and private rights and duties in relation to this subject.
1. The Oppression of the Poor, by taking advantage of their necessities,
under such pleas as the Treedom of Competition, the Neces
sities of Business, and the like.
k. Humane Movements and Organirations; their origin, development,
practical results and present condition and prospects, includins
the prevention of cruelty.
1. Associated Charities; the object, character, methods and results of
such organinations.
m. Treatment of the Sick not in Hospitals; dispensaries, sick diet
kitchens, district nursins, Rower and fruit missions, etc.
o. Institutions for Temporary Relief; way-farers lodges; shelters for
women, etc.
P. Institutions for the permanent relief of the disabled, aged and infirm.
4. Orphan Asylums; their history, modern methods and practical
results; needed reforms in Legislation, needed reforms in Ad.
ministration.
r. More particularly, Institutions sor the Aid of Minors; Orphanages,
Foundlins Asylums, Day Nurseries, Newsboys and Bootblacks
Homes, Industrial Schools and Fresh Air Missions.
S. Temporary Relief tor the Unemployed: General Relief Societies,
special Reliet Societies, Soup Houses, Covernment Paun Shops,
Wood Vards, Foundries and Burial Associations.
1. Prison Reform: Police Methods, Arrests, Patrol Boxes and Wagons,
Police Stations, Jails, Police Matrons, the Registration of
Criminals, Retormatories, Truant Schoots, Houses of Correction,
Institutions tor Fallen Women, Penitentiaries, etc.
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Preventive Institutions and Measures in Particular; Model Tene-
ments, Sanitary Work, Savings and Loan Associations, Penny
Banks and other Savings Schemes, Educational and Industrial
Unions, Industrial Schools, Cooking Schools, Working Girls So-
cieties, Boys Clubs, Vouns Mens Christian Societies, Womens
Christian Societies, Church Home Missions, Order of Deacon-
esses, The King's Daughters, Lend-a-Hand Clubs, etc.
Prtiauwanr Oncanzarion of rtus Dtratrntvr.
rne beneral committee ot tne worlas congress Auxiliary on Moral and
Soctat Retorm Congresses.
M2. Jouw G. Stonrati, President Illinois Humane Societyl, Chairman.
Dk. Ctas. G. Thosorti, Superintendent Chicago Relief and Aid
Society, Vice Chairman.
Hon. Oliver H. Horton,
Supt. L. L. Galvin,
Col. Augustus Jacobson,
Mr. William M. Satter.
Major R. W. MeClaughry.
Mr. J. W. Plummer.
Rev. L. P. Mercer.
Prof. G. B. Willcox,
Mr. A. T. Hemingway.
n. Hospitals and Hospital Service: general, special, maternity, chil-
drens and contagious; ambulance service, trainins schoots tor
nurses, etc.