Appendix B.-The Church Home Society of Massachusetts and the Detroit 221 GENERAL TABLES Table 1.-Age when received of children under care of eight child-placing agencies during a six-month period... 215 Table 2.-Person or agency from whom children under care of eight Table 3.-Parental status when received of children under care of eight Table 5-Number of replacements of children under care of eight child placing agencies during a six-month period_-Table 6-Type of first placement of children under care of eight childplacing agencies during a six-month period.......... Table 7.-Duration of first placement of children under care of eight child-placing agencies during a six-month period__ Table 8.-Type of placement at discharge or at end of period, of children under care of eight child-placing agencies during a six-month period_--_-- Table 9.-Disposition made of children discharged from care of eight child-placing agencies during a six-month perood. 215 216 217 218 218 219 219 220 1.-Map of Massachusetts showing territory assigned to each of the three Massachusetts agencies included in the study and to other agencies in the State_--- 2.-Map of Michigan showing location of headquarters and branch offices of Michigan Children's Aid Society LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, CHILDREN'S BUREAU, Washington, October 15, 1926. SIR: There is transmitted herewith a report on the work of childplacing agencies, which includes in Part I a social study of 10 agencies caring for dependent children and in Part II a study of the health supervision of children placed in foster homes. The field work for the social study of the child-placing agencies was done by L. Josephine Webster and Katharine P. Hewins during the period from November, 1922, to April, 1923. Miss Hewins wrote the general section of Part I and the individual descriptions of the three Massachusetts agencies; Miss Webster wrote the descriptions of the other seven agencies. Part II was written by Dr. Mary L. Evans, who also did the field investigations of health supervision. Eight of the agencies included in Part II are the same as those included in Part I; an outline of the two not included in the social study is given in an appendix to the report. The Children's Bureau is indebted to the Church Home Society for the Care of Children of the Protestant Episcopal Church and the Vermont Children's Aid Society (Inc.) for releasing Miss Hewins and Miss Webster for the work on this report and to the agencies included in the study for making available the information on which the report is based and for reviewing and bringing it up to date. Respectfully submitted. Hon. JAMES J. DAVIS, Secretary of Labor. GRACE ABBOTT, Chief. IX |