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Memorandum by Dr. Urie, ca. Nov. 1912

Urie comments on options for a boy's camp near Muskegon.

Tentative schedule, Children's Bureau, November 6, 1912

A questionnaire to collect information about newborns and their families in order for the United States Children's Bureau to investigate infant mortality.

Child Welfare Health Research

Why Women Are Concerned with the Larger Citizenship: Philanthropy and Politics, 1913

Addams discusses how philanthropic activities become political activities, citing instances from her own work in Chicago.

Charity Juvenile Delinquency Labor Lectures Poverty Public Health Recreation Settlements Social Welfare

Lead Poisoning, 1913

American Association for Labor Legislation factsheet on the health hazards of lead poisoning.

Public Health

Sickness Insurance, January 10, 1914

Report tells the importance of sickness insurance in social welfare programs.

Public Health Social Welfare

Jane Addams and Louise de Koven Bowen to Edgar Addison Bancroft, June 13, 1916

Addams and Bowen suggest a plan for a memorial foundation for Henry B. Favill that would help prevent social diseases.

Philanthropy Public Health

How to Feed the World, February 13, 1919

Addams' address to the American Women's Victory Dinner uses the end of the war to urge for greater international collaboration to ensure food supplies. The speech was given at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.

Charity Ethics Food Shortages Internationalism Lectures Onsite Public Health Relief Efforts World War I

How to Feed the World, February 13, 1919

Addams' address to the American Women's Victory Dinner uses the end of the war to urge for greater international collaboration to ensure food supplies. The speech was given at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.

Charity Ethics Food Shortages Internationalism Lectures Relief Efforts World War I