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step towards race improvement ? In these days what are some 

 cities doing in order to be clean ? What is your own city doing in 

 the line of keeping clean ? When race-improvement people saw 

 that cleanliness would not do everything, what did they also see 

 was being done by factory managers and others ? What was their 

 conclusion about the need of laws to help the oppressed ? What, 

 then, was the second step taken in the direction of race improvement? 

 Since protection by law is part of the new order, tell what some of 

 these laws do to protect people. In addition to cleanliness and 

 protection by law, what did people say must also be done in the 

 matter of right surroundings for children? What, then, was the 

 third step in race improvement called ? In 191 1 what did the United 

 States government do to help the children ? What does the Chil- 

 dren's Bureau propose to do ? What have thoughtful people been 

 noticing about the effect of environment on children ? In Man- 

 chester, England, over seventy years ago, how many children out 

 of every thousand died under five years of age ? What helped them 

 to die so young ? What does Dr. Ashby say about the effect of 

 measles on healthy children of well-to-do people ; that is, did many 

 or few of their children die of measles? What about the result 

 when children in the workhouses and such places had measles ? 

 Mention some of the diseases given in the table in which poverty 

 had much to do with the death rate. To what fact do the figures 

 of the table draw our attention ? Describe the difference between 

 the condition of the milk supply in Rochester in 1892 and that in 

 1904. What improvement in the death rate was there in 1904? 

 What was the explanation of the changed death rate ? 



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How large an army of defective persons was Ohio supporting 

 in 1910? Mention some of the kinds of defects included in the 

 number. How does the condition in Ohio compare with that to be 

 found elsewhere in the world ? How do we prove that we are kind 

 to the present generation ? How do we know that we are unkind 

 to the next generation ? In view of this condition, what con- 

 clusion has been reached by those who love their fellow men ? 



