WATCHING THE CHILD
WELFARE WORK TALK AT HONOLULU WOMEN’S CONFERENCE HONOLULU, Tuesday. A public meeting in connection with the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference was held last evening. The speakers were Dr. Louise Stanley, chief of the Bureau of Home Economics. Department of Agriculture, Washington, and Miss Burleigh, head of the Child Guidance Clinic, Los Angeles. Dr. Stanley described the organisation of the great conference on child welfare summoned by President Hoover, to be held at White House in November. She said a committee of experts had formed many committees and sub-committees of specialists in every branch of 'the subject, which now had been at work two years. Miss Burleigh’s subject was mental hygiene. She made special reference to the work done in the direction of child guidance. Miss Burleigh, who is to leave Honolulu tomorrow, assisted the social service and health sections of the conference today in a discussion of the subject. This afternoon the delegates inspected the Palama Hospital extension, the social service settlement and the Salvation Army Girls’ Home.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1050, 14 August 1930, Page 9
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