WALD, LILLIAN D. (1867- ), American sociologist, was born at Cincinnati (0.) on March io, 1867. She graduated from the New York Hospital training school for nurses. In 1893 she founded the Henry Street Settlement, now internationally known, and organized the district nursing work in connection with it. The first municipalization of school nursing anywhere was due to her when she originated the work of the school nurse in New York in 1902. The idea of the Federal Children's Bureau which passed commissions of both houses of Congress, 1908, was also hers, as well as the foundation of what is known as "public health nursing" in the United States following Florence Nightin gale's conception of "health nursing." She served the cause of
public welfare on several national and international commissions and conferences, notably in the 1919 series at Cannes, Zurich and Washington; was chairman of the American Union against Mili tarism; one of the organizers of the National Women's Trade Union League; represented the public from 1910 on the joint board of sanitary control of certain trades, and was author of The House on Henry Street and other writings.