Child hygiene / by S. Josephine Baker.

  • Sara Josephine Baker
Date:
[1925]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Child hygiene / by S. Josephine Baker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Other children’s code commissions were established in the following order: 1917—Michigan and Montana; 1918— Delaware, Kansas, and Wisconsin; 1919—Connecticut, In¬ diana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah; 1920—Kentucky, New York, and Ten- nesse; 1921—District of Columbia, North Dakota, Virginia, and West Virginia; 1922—Georgia; 1923—Florida, Iowa, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The work of these commissions has proved the necessity for this codification and readjustment of the present laws and for the enactment of additional laws for the conservation and protection of child life. The administrative work of these commissions is described in a pamphlet issued by the United States Children’s Bureau, entitled, ‘‘State Commis¬ sions for the Study and Revision of Child Welfare Laws.” National legislation for child welfare in the United States has been slow. The federal government has been hesitant in assuming responsibility for welfare legislation, and it has been considered as primarily the business of the in¬ dividual states. Within recent years, however, there has been a marked change in the attitude of Congress with regard to this type of legislation. This has been manifested, as far as child welfare is concerned, in the passing of two acts of great significance. A federal child labor law was passed on September 1, 1916, to become effective one year later. This law forbade the transportation in interstate or foreign commerce of products of mines, quarries, or of manufacturing establish¬ ments violating the following standards: (a) The prohibition of the labor of children under six¬ teen years of age in and about mines and quarries. (b) The prohibition of the labor of children under four¬ teen years of age in mills, canneries, workshops, factories, and manufacturing establishments. (c) The limitation of the labor of children from four¬ teen to sixteen years of age in manufacturing estab-
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