ublic agencies.

Today the child in the school is examined; then, if need be, is given
special consideration at the dispensary, then sent to school, where,
with fresh air, pure food, and hygienic surroundings, he will so
strengthen himself as to combat the ravages of disease.

The Association for the Improvement of the Condition of the Poor, New
York City, not only sends bread to fill the hungry stomach, but now
sends a wise and sympathetic worker to help women to understand food
and money values, which means a permanent help. And it no longer
simply says to the tired, worried woman who has had no education-stimulus
along the line of cleanness, "Be clean," but sends in women to make
the house an example, an exhibit of clean conditions, if you will.
Example is stronger than precept.

In the rapid growth of cities, so often beyond anticipation,
preparation for development or plans for extension have seldom been
laid. Much suffering has been wrought to the families of men in our
crowded cities, for there is no greater evil than the congestion of
streets and buildings.

Many students of social conditions of today believe that the most
serious menace is the situation best described as housing--the site,
the crowding, the bad building, poor water supply and drainage, lack
of light and air and cleanliness. All believe that it is economically
a loss to the city in general, however profitable to a very few. To
rent such buildings is a far greater crime than cruelty to animals or
even the beating of women and children.

But groups of people the wide world over are keenly awake to this
state of affairs, and though the problem is tremendous they are trying
in numerous ways to solve it.

In some cities there are at present organizations urging "city
planning," while in several foreign cities the municipality has
already made regulations. In some cities there are municipal model
tenements, but this is still a project of too small proportions to
affect the community.

Perhaps no modern movement that comprehends both the city planning and
the housing of the working people is more ideal than the "Garden
Cities" movement in England and the other countries following it.

If there is any spot on which the hand of the law should be laid, it
is the congested districts in cities and mill villages. The evil has
grown to such magnitude that the first steps will mean some drastic
measures.

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