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- Adoption Law and legislation--Jefferson County (1)
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- Civics--Study and teaching (Elementary) (1)
- Council of Social Agencies of Louisville and Jefferson County (1)
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- Day care centers--Kentucky--Louisville (1)
- Holidays--Juvenile literature (1)
- Kentucky--Louisville (1)
- Medical care--Kentucky--Louisville (1)
- Physically handicapped--Home care--Kentucky--Louisville (1)
- Physically handicapped--Institutional care--Kentucky--Louisville (1)
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A History Of The Council Of Social Agencies Of Louisville, Kentucky., Mary Trueheart Williamson
A History Of The Council Of Social Agencies Of Louisville, Kentucky., Mary Trueheart Williamson
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Community social planning has recently received the spotlight of attention under the impacts of war and its related demands for a united nation and community. But to those who have had a more intimate contact with the field of social work this is not a new development. For more than twenty years there has been in urban areas a steady growth of organizations known as councils of social agencies, welfare councils, or community councils whose job it has been to coordinate and plan the social welfare programs for the communities of which they are a part. As in other cities, …
Convalescent Care In Louisville, Kentucky., Grace B. Caswell
Convalescent Care In Louisville, Kentucky., Grace B. Caswell
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This study is undertaken to survey and evaluate the adequacy of convalescent facilities available for indigent persons who have been under the care of the surgical service at the Louisville General Hospital. The adequacy of convalescent care will be measured first, in relation to its scope, second, in relation to its help to the patients, and third, in its interaction with other community agencies. The study is prompted by the recognition of the fact that convalescence is a sadly neglected field of medical care. Convalescence will be defined for the purposes of this study as the more or less gradual …
A Study Of Day Care Particularly In Reference To Louisville, Kentucky., Nancy Lee Johnson
A Study Of Day Care Particularly In Reference To Louisville, Kentucky., Nancy Lee Johnson
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A problem of great concern to many communities in the United States is that of day care of children of working mothers. Since the beginning of the defense program and particularly after the United States entered the war, wide publicity has been given to the problem of children left without supervision while their mothers worked. Communities that were affected by increases in population began to establish committees to cope with the situation. Numerous surveys were conducted in an attempt to measure the adequacy of existing facilities and the extent of the need for additional day care centers. Congressional action made …
Adoption Procedures And Practices In Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1941., Ruby Arnold Dennis
Adoption Procedures And Practices In Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1941., Ruby Arnold Dennis
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This study is an attempt to evaluate the procedure employed in the adoption of children in Kentucky since the enactment of the new adoption law in June, 1940, which made mandatory a social investigation during the sixty-day period required between the date of the filing of the petition and the date of the court hearing. It aims (1) to examine the operations of the Kentucky law in the area of Jefferson County tor which the records were made available by the State Department of Welfare, Child Welfare Division, Frankfort, Kentucky, and (2) to measure the local procedure by the standard …
A Study Of Twenty-Eight Working Mothers And Their Problems., Marianna E. Lawson
A Study Of Twenty-Eight Working Mothers And Their Problems., Marianna E. Lawson
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What are the problems of working mothers was the question that was uppermost in our minds when we began our study of twenty-eight working mothers and their families. We felt that through examining data regarding ages, occupation, education, marital status, number of dependents, et cetera that we would be able to ascertain at once some of the difficulties these mothers were facing. We wanted to know how much of the financial burden the mother carried and whether she was showing any signs of strain because of her double duties of wage earner and housekeeper. What help did she have from …
An Investigation Into The Need And The Use Of Patriotic Holiday Reading Material In The Primary Grades., Mary Walker Barnard 1906-1996
An Investigation Into The Need And The Use Of Patriotic Holiday Reading Material In The Primary Grades., Mary Walker Barnard 1906-1996
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