Restatement And Conclusion The
Restatement And Conclusion The Charitable Impulse Has Four Distinct Stages Of De Velopment : The Desire To Alleviate Obvious And Obtrusive Distress ; The Desire To Relieve Distress Adequately ; The Desire To Restore The Dependent If Possible To A Position Of Self-support ; And Finally, The Desire To Create ...
Social Debtors Theproblem
Social Debtors - The Problem The Industrial And Social Progress Of The Nineteenth Century Has Led To An Enormous Increase Of Wealth And To A Higher Average Standard Of Both Efficiency And Comfort. This Progress Has Not At All Points Proceeded With That Equitable Distribution Which Would Accord With Our ...
The Baltimore Fire
The Baltimore Fire The Baltimore Fire Of Sunday, February 7, 1904, And The Monday Following Swept Over An Area Estimated To Be One Hundred And Fifty Acres, The Heart Of The Business Section. Over Thirteen Hundred Buildings Were Destroyed And Probably Four Thousand Firms, Corporations, Or Indi Viduals Were Burned ...
The Breaking Up Of
The Breaking Up Of Families The Breaking Up Of A Family By Any Outside Agency Is Justified Only When It Is Merely The Outward Expression Of A Destruction Which Has Already Taken Place. The Stern Scriptural Injunction, " Whom God Hath Joined Together Let No Man Put Asunder," Gains Increased ...
The Chicago Fire
The Chicago Fire Fortunatelyfor Students Of Relief Measures, The Chi Cago Relief And Aid Society Was Constituted The Almoner Of The Fund Of Some $5,000,000 Contributed To Alleviate The Sufferings Of Those Who Were Rendered Homeless And Destitute By The Disastrous Fire Of October 8 And 9 Of 1871. Three ...
The Elimination Of Disease
The Elimination Of Disease The Prevention Of Disease Has Been Thought To Be The Special Concern Of The Medical Profession. This Is, How Ever, No More The Case Than That The Improvement Of Housing Conditions Concerns Only Architects, Or That The Improvement Of Morals Is Of Interest Only To The ...
The Essentials Of A
The Essentials Of A Relief Policy It Should Be Possible To Formulate The General Principles Upon Which Charitable Relief Is To Be Given To Dependent Families, Whether The Source Of Such Relief Is The Church, A Relief Society, The Public Treasury, Or A Private Individual ; Whether Such Relief Is ...
The Houslng Problem The
The Houslng Problem The Problem Of Rent Takes Precedence In The Minds Of Those Who Live In The Tenement-houses Of Great Cities Over The Problems Of Food And Clothing. It Is A Striking Coinci Dence That It Is Also With Reference To Shelter That The Conception Of A Normal Standard ...
The Johnstown Flood
The Johnstown Flood In The Afternoon Of The Last Day Of May, 1889, Occurred The Johnstown Flood, Resulting In The Loss Of Between 2000 And 3000 Lives And The Destruction In The Conemaugh Valley, In Western Pennsylvania, Of Property Valued At $12,000,000. The Bursting Of A Dam Released A Body ...
The Reform Of The
The Reform Of The English Poor Law In As Much As The Reform Of The English Poor Law In 1834 Has Exercised A Unique Influence Upon All Subsequent Discussions Of The Policy Of Public Relief, It Is Interesting To Inquire Whether The Circumstances Under Which This Reform Was Brought About ...
The Relief Of Families
The Relief Of Families At Home Having Completed Our Survey Of Those Relief Policies Which Affect More Or Less Directly All Classes Of The Com Munity, We May Now Turn To More Distinctively Charitable Tasks. Among These We Are To Distinguish On The One Hand The Relief Of The Poor ...
The Slocum Disaster
The " Slocum " Disaster By The Burning And Sinking Of The General Slocum, A Steamboat Of The Knickerbocker Steamboat Company, In The East River On June 15, 1904, 958 Persons Are Known To Have Lost Their Lives ; 897 Bodies Having Been Identified, And 61 Buried Without Identification. The ...
The Standard Of Living
The Standard Of Living In Attempting To•describe In Detail What Is Demanded By The Standard Of Living In The Larger Cities Of The United States, It Will Be Better At The Outset Not To Consider Princi Pally Dependent Families Or Those Which Are At The Lowest Round Of Income And ...
Winter Of 1893 1894 Industrial
Industrial Distress In New York And Indianapolis, Winter Of 1893-1894 Elsewhere In This Volume Industrial Displacement Has Been Discussed As A Cause Of Distress Under Ordinary Eco Nomic Conditions. The Hard Times Accompanying And Succeeding Periods Of Commercial And Industrial Depres Sion Not Infrequently Present An Emergency Relief Problem Comparable ...