Excerpt from Standards of Child Welfare: A Report of the Children's Bureau Conferences, May and June, 1919 During many years, furthermore, knowledge has been available that among all modern p'eoples a large proportion of the Children born were dying needlessly, and that other large groups were vainly being wasted by unnecessarily damaging circumstances. A recognition of this has been the inspiration of the large body of ameliorative legislation and private effort characteristic of recent years. The war, moreover, by its manifold testing of the sources of strength revealed suddenly evils for which the very continuance of civilization has demanded remedy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.