TABLE OF CONTENTS

First Session, Tuesday Evening, November 13, 1917:

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Invocation, Rev. Samuel Dunham.....

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Report of the Committee on Delinquency, Frank L. Christian, M.D.,

Chairman

New Problems in the Employment of Released Prisoners, Mr.

Charles K. Blatchly

Discussion opened by Mr. H. B. Rodgers...

General Discussion -

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Hon. Stephen Smith, M.D.

Hon. Frank E. Wade.

Dr. Charles Bernstein.

Mental Status of Prisoners admitted to Sing Sing during a Period

of Nine Months, Dr. Bernard Glueck.

Second Session, Wednesday Morning, November 14, 1917:

Discussion opened by Dr. John R. Harding. .

Address of Welcome, Mr. James G. Brownlow.

Appointment of Committees..

Announcements by the Secretary.

Address of the President, Dr. Lee K. Frankel..

Third Session, Wednesday Afternoon, November 14, 1917:

Industrial and Vocational Training, Miss Mary Van Kleeck, Chair-

man

Social Significance of the Modern School, Mr. Angelo Patri..

New York City Industrial Education Survey, Mr. Herbert Blair..

Training Women Workers in War Time, Miss May Allinson..

Discussion opened by Mr. Daniel J. Kelly.......

General Discussion

Mrs. Edith S. King..

Mr. Armand Wyle..

Announcements by Assistant Secretary.

Fourth Session, Wednesday Evening, November 14, 1917:

Home Needs in War Time, Mr. Alexander M. Wilson..........

The Indices of Good Family Planning, Mr. Francis H. McLean.

Discussion opened by Mr. Charles P. Austin...

Fifth Session, Thursday Morning, November 15, 1917:

Health, Hon. Haven Emerson, Chairman.

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A Program for the Control of Venereal Disease, Hon. Herman M.

Biggs, M.D....

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127

Social and Recreational Facilities for the Control of Venereal Dis-

ease in Military Camps, Mr. Bascom Johnson.

The Relation of Alcohol to the Acquisition of Venereal Disease,

Capt. Gordon Bates, M.D...

Discussion opened by Capt. Alec N. Thomson, M.D...

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Sixth Session, Thursday Afternoon, November 15, 1917:

Report of Committee on Time and Place, Mr. Herbert J. Hunn,

Chairman

168

Report of Committee on the Treatment of the Mentally Defective,

Mr. Charles H. Johnson, Chairman..

169

Feeble-Mindedness and the State, Hon. Henry M. Sage.

186

Shall the Epileptic be Given Assistance Outside the Special Colony,

Report of the Committee on Resolutions, Miss Mary Vida Clark,

Chairman

222

Report of the Committee on Children, Rev. Augustine M. O'Neill,

Chairman

226

The Placing Out and Boarding Out of Dependent Children, Prof.

Henry W. Thurston....

234

Survey of the Operation and Needs of Child Welfare Boards in the

State of New York, Mrs. William Einstein.

253

Organization of the Nineteenth Conference of Charities and Correc-

tion

List of Contributors to the Eighteenth Conference.

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286

List of Members and Delegates to the Eighteenth Conference.

Index to Writers, Speakers and Officers..

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303

General Index

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ORGANIZATION OF THE EIGHTEENTH
NEW YORK STATE CONFERENCE OF
CHARITIES AND CORRECTION

OFFICERS OF THE CONFERENCE

PRESIDENT

LEE K. FRANKEL

I Madison Avenue, New York City

VICE-PRESIDENTS

DAVID W. HITCHCOCK, Poughkeepsie.
MRS. LEWIS BIGELOW, Rochester.

REV. WILLIAM A. COURTNEY, New York City.

SECRETARY

RICHARD W. WALLACE, Room 431, The Capitol, Albany.

ASSISTANT SECRETARIES

HERBERT J. HUNN, Troy.

MISS MARY A. STEER, Albany.
BERTRAM B. R. COOK, Binghamton.

TREASURER

FRANK TUCKER, 346 Fourth Avenue, New York City.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Lee K. Frankel, Chairman, New York City.

Robert W. deForest, New York City.
William R. Stewart, New York City.
Robert W. Hebberd, New York City.
Nathan Bijur, New York City.
* William Mabon, M.D., New York
City.

Daniel B. Murphy, Rochester.
Simon W. Rosendale, Albany.
Mornay Williams, Englewood, N. J.
* George A. Lewis, Buffalo.

Rev. Max Landsberg, D.D., Roches

ter.

* Died, 1917.

Stephen Smith, M.D., New York City
Edmond J. Butler, New York City.
* Abram J. Katz, Rochester.
Frank E. Wade, Buffalo.

George B. Robinson, Bedford Hills.
Mrs. William Einstein, New York
City.

Alexander McKinny, Brooklyn.
Thomas R. Proctor, Utica.

Mrs. Wm. B. Van Rensselaer, Albany
Ansley Wilcox, Buffalo.

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