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Excerpt from Child Welfare Work in Oregon: A Study of Public and Private Agencies and Institutions for the Care of Dependent, Delinquent and Defective Children The Oregon Child Welfare Commission hereby transmit to your honorable body the following report by Dr. W. H. Slinger land, of the Russell Sage Foundation of New York, on child welfare conditions and problems in Oregon. In submitting this report and study, we wish not only to bear testimony to the broad sympathy, intelligence, and expert thoroughness of Dr. Slingerland's work, but to record our conviction that through the medium of his report the Child Welfare Commis sion, in the most effective manner possible is meeting both the letter and the spirit of the mandate put upon it by you and through you by the Legislature of 1917, through Senate Reso lation No. 21, calling for an exhaustive inquiry into all condi tions, problems, and desirable betterments with reference to dependent, delinquent, and defective children in this State. The Russell Sage Foundation has a special department for just this work; and one of the experts in this department is Dr. Slingerland, who has been conducting inquiries and gather ing knowledge and experience in all parts of the Union for a series of years. For instance, he has made studies and reported on child conditions in our neighbor-states of Cali formia and Washington. When, therefore, the Foundation con sented to lend the Oregon Child Welfare Commission Dr. Slingerland's services, and when the Extension Division of the University of Oregon, recognizing the high public import of the researches to be undertaken, agreed to give them its financial and every other necessary support, we eagerly seized upon these means of handling the task assigned us. At the same time, we have not, in any degree, consciously neglected or evaded the responsibilities placed directly upon ourselves. The members of the Commission have individually and as a group visited and studied institutions and conditions. 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.