Humanizing the Greater City's Charity: The Work of the Department of Public Charities of the City of New York

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Public welfare committee, 1917 - 144 Seiten
 

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Seite 49 - Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. It is the great molding force of mind and of character. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons.
Seite 5 - July, nineteen hundred and one, the jurisdiction of the department of public charities of The City of New York over Bellevue Hospital and the Fordham, Harlem and Gouverneur Hospitals and the Emergency Hospital in east Twenty-sixth street...
Seite 49 - The commissioner, or deputy commissioner of public charities shall have power to commit, to indenture, place out, discharge, or transfer any child who may be in his custody, or who may have been placed by him in an institution as a public charge, whenever in his judgment it shall be for the best interests of such child so to do...
Seite 82 - Members of the New York City Visiting Committee of the State Charities Aid Association have made frequent visits to the hospitals of the Bureau during the year.
Seite 8 - Much of the data for this book has been borrowed from various publications of the Department of Public Charities, particularly from its annual report for 1916.
Seite 141 - THE NEW YORK CITY HOME FOR THE AGED AND INFIRM BLACKWELL'S ISLAND.
Seite 50 - The study of political science and philosophy has, however, developed during the past five years. There has been a steady increase in the number of classes and study circles taking literature as their subject.
Seite 135 - An Act to enable the city of New- York to relieve the Poor and defray their necessary and publick Charge.
Seite 46 - This condition of aloofness, with respect to the management of private institutions, has been characteristic of even the Department of Public Charities, which is the medium through which the great majority of the dependent children now maintained in private charitable institutions at the city's expense have been committed.
Seite 71 - Colony, the New York City Home for the Aged and Infirm, and the Brooklyn Home for the Aged and Infirm.

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