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State control is required to correct such abuses. Massachu- 

 setts and New York require that every children's agency shall be 

 licensed by state authority before transacting any business. The 

 Colorado legislature in 1901 established a law that all- private 

 eleemosynary societies and corporations should not only secure 

 licenses, but should have them renewed annually. The Iowa 

 State Board of Control is instructed by law not only to inspect 

 all private institutions for children, but to prescribe certain rules 

 for their conduct. 



Indiana. Illinois. Ohio, and Minnesota have made provision 

 for state inspection and supervision of private institutions and 

 societies for children. Other states see the necessity for this and 

 will soon have similar laws. These laws, enacted in the spirit of 

 the centralizing movement, relate not only to the institutional 

 care of dependent children, but also to the entire placing-out 

 system. 



It is not expected that all institutional care and placing-out of 

 children will come under absolute state control in the immediate 

 future, but that is the ultimate goal, and social forces are moving 

 towards that inevitable result. 



Abuses are repeatedly found in county poorhouses, in county 

 jails, and in other departments of charities and corrections. 

 State control and supervision are imperatively demanded to 

 correct these abuses. 



ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS 



I. State Board of Charity of Massachusetts. 4 ; State Board 

 of Insanity. 9 ; State Board of Prison Commissioners, 

 10. 

 II. State Board of Charities of New York, 11; State Com- 

 mission in Lunacy. 13; State Commission of Prisons, 



13- 

 III. Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois Advisory State 

 Boards of Charity. 15; Arguments in Favor of Ad- 

 visory Boards, 16; Success of Advisory Boards, 18; 

 Change of Sentiment in these States, 19. 



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