In trying to effect both private and public conditions favorable to the best development of child-life, what should be the scale of values used, or what should be the order of effort?
5.

Dr.Alice Hamilton, in a Chicago study of I,500 families, found that the infant death-rate in large families of six children and over was two and one-half times greater than in small families of four children or less.

Was that an indication that infant mortality rises with fecundity or was it one of many indications that the better-to-do have smaller families?
In any case, should such statistics always include the statement of the social standing and the income of the groups studied?
6.

In _The Child_ of August, 1920, Miss Julia C.Lathrop summarizes the Child-welfare Standards proposed by the Children's Bureau as follows: (1.) Minimum standards for children entering employment: A.Minimum age, sixteen years in all employments; eighteen years in mines and quarries; twenty-one years for girls as telephone or telegraph messengers; twenty-one years for special-delivery service of U.S.
Post Office; prohibition of minors in dangerous, unhealthy, or hazardous occupations.
B.Minimum education, compulsory education for all between seven and sixteen years for nine months of every year.
Between sixteen and eighteen years those legally employed to attend Continuation Schools at least eight hours a week.
C.Physical minimum, annual examination of all working children under eighteen years of age; prohibition of work unless found to be normal in physique and health.
D.Hours, minors not more than eight hours a day or forty-four hours a week, and prohibition of night-work.

Continuation School attendance to count as part of working-day.
E.Wages, minimum determined by wage commission or similar agency.
F.Vocational guidance and employment supervision.
G.Employment certificate as needed protection against industrial exploitation.
(2.) Minimum standards for public protection of health of mothers and children: A.Maternity aids; B.Infants; C.Pre-school children; D.
School children; E.Adolescent children.
(3.) Minimum standards in relation to children needing special care: A.Adequate income; B.Assistance to mothers; C.State supervision; D.Removal of some children from their homes; E.Home care; F.Principles governing child-placing; G.Children in institutions; H.Care of children born out of wedlock; I.Care of physically defective children; J.Mental hygiene and care of mentally defective children; K.Juvenile courts; L.Rural social work; M.Scientific information.
(4.) General minimum standards: A.Economic and social; B.Recreation; C.Child-welfare legislation.
Read the above and compare your local conditions with these standards.