The House on Henry Street by Lillian D. Wald - HTML preview

FOOTNOTES

[1] The “Lodge” doctor is the physician provided by a mutual benefit society or “Lodge” to attend its members.—THE AUTHOR.

[2] “Visiting Nursing in the United States,” by Y. G. Waters (Charities Publication Committee).

[3] The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis in its report for 1915 states that the tuberculosis death rate in the registration area of the United States has declined from 167.7 in 1905 to 127.7 in 1913 per 100,000 population; a net saving to this country of over 200,000 lives from this one disease.

[4] “The Vocational Guidance of Youth,” by Meyer Bloomfield (Houghton Mifflin Co.).

[5] Because of economic conditions in New York during the winter of 1915 and the compulsory idleness of many unskilled workers, the Scholarship Committee of the Henry Street Settlement, among other efforts for relief, rented a loft in a building near a trade school, and thus made it possible for 160 untrained girls to receive technical instruction, the Board of Education providing teachers and equipment.—THE AUTHOR.

[6] That the ephemeral character of work available for children of fourteen to sixteen years of age is not peculiar to New York City is shown by the following figures from the report of the Maryland Bureau of Statistics for the year 1914. In Maryland, working papers are issued for each separate employment. The number of original applications in one year was 3,580 and the total of subsequent applications, 4,437. Of the 3,580 children 2,006 came back a second time, 1,036 a third time, 561 a fourth, 363 a fifth, 194 a sixth, 116 a seventh, 53 an eighth, 29 a ninth, 18 a tenth, and one child came back for the eighteenth time in a twelvemonth, for working papers. Many of the children told stories of long periods of idleness between employments.—THE AUTHOR.

[7] While writing this we learn that a child attending a settlement club has been involved in practices that indicate a perversion, but she cannot properly be included in the above classification because of her extreme youth.—THE AUTHOR.

[8] We have been popularly known as the Nurses’ Settlement, but our corporate name is The Henry Street Settlement.—THE AUTHOR.

[9] Hat and coat checked without charge.

[10] January 22, 1905.

[11] U. S. Commissioner S. M. Hitchcock’s decision, delivered March 30, 1909.

[12] Now published, with considerable additions, as “Memoirs of a Revolutionist” (Houghton Mifflin Co.).

[13] See “The Life Story of a Russian Exile,” by Marie Suldoff (The Century Co.).

[14] See the sympathetic sketch, “Katharine Breshkovsky,” by Ernest Poole (Charles H. Kerr & Co., Chicago).

[15] Report of the Federal Bureau of Education for 1913 shows 500 of these schools in New York City.

[16] See “History of Socialism in the United States,” by Morris Hillquit (Funk and Wagnalls).

[17] The early Hebrews possessed a few mystery plays, “The Sale of Joseph,” “Esther and Haman,” and “David and Goliath,” and at the Jewish carnival of Purim (Feast of Esther) merrymakers went from house to house giving performances of song and mimicry, but the Yiddish theater is new and was first introduced in Rumania not more than thirty-five years ago. Transplanted to Russia, the actors, said to have been selected from the original strolling companies, played a brilliant brief part until, under government order, the Yiddish theaters were closed there.

[18] Dr. Edward McGlynn was suspended in 1884 under charge of advocacy of Henry George and of holding opinions regarding the rights of property not in accord with Catholic teaching, and later excommunicated. He organized the famous Anti-Poverty Society in 1887. In 1892 he was reinstated, his position being judged not contrary to the doctrine of the Church as confirmed by the Encyclical Rerum Novarum issued by Leo XIII on May 15, 1891.

[19] See reports and bulletins of the Joint Board of Sanitary Control (Dr. George Price, Director), also Bulletins Nos. 98. 144, 145, and 146 of the U. S. Department of Labor, and “Sanitary Control of an Industry by Itself,” by L. D. Wald, in the report of the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, 1913.

[20] In August, 1915, the protocol was succeeded by a time agreement of two years. This agreement contains the main principles of the protocol, with some modifications in the machinery of adjustment.

[21] Report of Commission on Immigration of the State of New York transmitted to the legislature in April, 1909.

[22] “The Construction Camps of the People,” by Lillian D. Wald and Frances A. Kellor (The Survey, January 1, 1910).