- Adams, Maude, 87
- Adolescence, problems of, and settlement work, 170-179, 189-199
- Anarchism, 274-279
- Archer, William, 272
- Bellevue Hospital, 28, 59
- Bialystok massacre, 230
- Breshkovsky, Katharine, 238-248
- Brewster, Mary, 8, 10, 16, 45, 48, 78, 113
- Budget of a working-girl, 194;
- her “two jobs,” 211
- Cafés, bookshops, and saloons, 273-275
- Child Hygiene, Bureau of, 53, 57, 59
- Child labor:
- Children who work, 135-151;
- conditions in New York City, 135-137,
- —in Pennsylvania and the South, 144, 145;
- National Committee on, 144, 146;
- New York Committee on, 137, 144, 148, 150;
- newsboys, 146-149;
- obstacles to measures for protection of children, 149;
- scholarships to aid children, 138-142;
- statistics for Greater New York, 158;
- sweatshops and children, 153-156;
- typical employment record, 143;
- Washington Conference on, 146
- Clubs and classes in the settlement, 179-184
- Columbia University creates Department of Nursing and Health, 64
- Committee of Fifteen (New York), inquiry of, 174
- Comte, 274
- Continuation Schools, necessary for young workers, 160
- Convalescents, country house for, 88
- Crosby, Ernest, 234, 235, 280
- Davis, Katherine, 268
- Defectives:
- Responsibility of society for, 122;
- special classes instituted, 117-120
- De Leon, Daniel, 262
- Diseases of children and home treatment, 38-40
- Dock, L. L., 266
- Doukhobors, the, 233-235
- Drama:
- As a social force, 270-273;
- dramatic instinct of Jewish child, 184;
- marionette theater, 272;
- Neighborhood Playhouse, 185;
- pageants and plays, 184-187, 226;
- Yiddish plays, 270-272
- Ducey, Father, 280
- Dunsany, Lord, 188
- Education:
- Bureau of vocational guidance proposed, 160;
- continuation schools necessary, 160;
- educational ideals and the settlement, 133;
- effects of disorganized tenement life on, 110-113;
- Federal Children’s Bureau, 57, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168;
- foreign press as Americanizing influence, 307;
- hardships endured for, 99-103;
- institutional life and the child, 124-132;
- necessity for early care and training, 133;
- responsibility for defectives, 122;
- scholarships, 138, 141, 150;
- special training for defectives instituted, 117-120;
- study-rooms at the settlement, 103
- (see also Public Schools)
- Educational Alliance, The, 308
- Empress of Austria, assassination of, 275
- Factory law (New York) amended, 210
- Farrell, Elizabeth, 117, 120
- Federal Children’s Bureau, 57, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168
- Forward Association, The, 264
- Gapon, Father, 230
- Gershuni, 238
- Gordin, Jacob, 270, 271
- Greeks of New York give “Ajax,” 226
- Henry Street:
- Instruction in home nursing begun in old building on, 3;
- its links with city’s past, 169;
- physical changes of twenty years, 308
- Home and School Visitor, The, 110
- Hospitals:
- Children’s diseases and, 38-40;
- first school for midwives in Bellevue, 59;
- large numbers of city sick unable to avail themselves of, 28
- Housekeeping centers, 108, 109
- Hughes, Charles Evans, 259, 293
- Ibsen, Henrik, 188, 272
- Illiteracy, 113, 114
- Immigrants:
- Bureau of Industries and Immigration created, 293;
- conditions of, in labor camps, 294-297;
- contributions of, to national life, 305, 306;
- dangers and early trials of, 286-293;
- discrimination against, 300-302;
- further restriction of immigration contrary to American institutions, 290, 304;
- land and the, 298-300;
- positive governmental action and constructive social measures needed, 291;
- postal savings banks and, 298
- Industrial conditions:
- Programmes of betterment, 25;
- unemployment in 1893-1894, 17;
- wretched conditions impress Henry Street workers from the beginning, 25;
- youth and trades unions, 201-215
- (see also Child Labor and Sweatshops)
- Industrial Workers of the World, 278
- Infant mortality:
- Federal Children’s Bureau report on, 57;
- social disease, 54
- Institutional life, disadvantages of, for children, 124-132
- Italians:
- Ancient customs preserved among, 69;
- celebration of saints’ days, 252;
- daily newspaper publishes Constitution, 308;
- marionette theaters, 272;
- preyed upon by quack doctors, 37;
- tragic experience of Italian immigrant, 286-288
- “Jephthah’s Daughter,” 186
- Jews:
- Cycle of Hebrew festivals at Henry Street, 184;
- difficulties of, in complex new world, 252-254;
- dramatic instinct of Jewish child, 184;
- Talmud-Torah Schools and Chedorim, 253;
- value put upon education by, 97-100;
- wedding customs, 216-219;
- Yiddish plays, 270-272;
- Yiddish press, 307;
- Zionism, 254
- Kant, 274
- Kelley, Florence, 144
- Kellor, Frances, 293, 294
- Kennan, George, 238, 239
- Kindness of poor to each other, 17-20, 70
- Kishineff massacre, 229
- Knights of Labor, 263, 281
- Kropotkin, Prince, 222, 234, 235, 238, 276
- Land, The, and the immigrant, 298-300
- Lathrop, Julia, 166
- Lawrence strike, The, 278, 279
- Le Moyne, Sarah Cowell, 188
- Life insurance and nursing service, 62
- Literacy test for immigrants, 304, 305
- Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 14
- McGlynn, Edward, 280
- McRae, Mrs., 13-17
- Maude, Aylmer, 233
- Mazzini, 208
- Medical etiquette:
- And nursing service, 30-36;
- its analogies with the “closed shop,” 34
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, petition for Sunday opening of, 80
- Midwives, 57-60
- Milk stations, 55, 56
- Morbidity, statistics of, 37, 38
- Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 144
- National Organization for Public Health Nursing, 64
- National Playground Association, 81
- Negroes:
- “Lincoln House,” 162;
- peculiar problems of, 162, 163;
- restricted opportunities for, in industry, 162
- Neighborhood Playhouse, The, 185
- Nursing service:
- Co-operation with Board of Health, 45;
- co-ordination with educational institutions, 63;
- Department of Nursing and Health at Columbia University, 64;
- development of, throughout country, 44, 60;
- division into districts, 42;
- effect of new basis, 27, 28;
- etiquette of, 27;
- honored by Mt. Holyoke degree, 65;
- life insurance company and, 62;
- new era in development of, 60, 61;
- nurses for public schools, 51-53;
- post-graduate training in settlement, 63;
- principles of, 26, 27, 29;
- professional etiquette and, 30-36;
- Public Health Nursing, division of, created in New York State, 46
- —department of, in Columbia University, 64
- —National Organization for, 64;
- staff of settlement increased, 41, 42
- Outdoor Recreation League, 85, 86
- Pageants, festas, and street dances, 184, 214, 215, 226, 252
- Picnics and day parties, 77-79, 89
- Play, children and, 66-96
- Playgrounds:
- In Henry Street Settlement’s back yard, 81-84;
- movement throughout country in favor of, 96;
- Outdoor Recreation League, 85, 86;
- playgrounds “at no matter what cost,” 96;
- public schools used for, 87;
- Seward Park, 86
- Postal savings banks and the immigrant, 298
- Pouren, Jan, 236-238
- Protocol established in cloakmakers’ strike, 284, 285
- Prudhon, 276
- Public Health Nursing, division of, created in Columbia University, 64;
- in New York State, 46;
- National Organization for, 64
- Public schools:
- Cooking instruction in, 107;
- doctors appointed for, 49-51;
- first class for ungraded pupils in, 117-120;
- infectious diseases and, 46-53;
- opened as recreation centers, 87;
- Penny Lunches for, 109;
- responsibility for defectives, 114-123;
- settlement seeks to co-operate with and supplement, 105;
- stronghold of democracy, 133;
- trachoma in, 50;
- trained nurses in, 51-53
- Quack doctors and the poor, 36, 37
- Red Cross (American):
- An agency providing “moral equivalents for war,” 61;
- Department of Town and Country Nursing, 61
- Riis, Jacob, 67
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 125, 164, 166, 236, 237
- Russian freedom:
- Case of Jan Pouren, 236-238;
- Friends of, in New York, 235;
- Katharine Breshkovsky, 238-248;
- Russian visitors at Henry Street, 231-233;
- Russia’s struggle our struggle, 248;
- spiritual force of, on East Side, 229;
- woman suffrage and, 268
- Russian Revolution, 229, 230;
- New York Committee, 231, 236
- Scholarships for children who work:
- “Alva Scholarship,” 150;
- chart showing statistics of, 141;
- Henry Street system, 138;
- New York Child Labor Committee Scholarship, 150
- Settlements:
- Adherents of all creeds work together in, 254;
- birth of idea, 2;
- developments and opportunities for service, 309, 310;
- College Settlement (New York), 10;
- Union Settlement, 58;
- University Settlement, 137
- Sex hygiene, instruction in, 198
- Shaw, George Bernard, 188
- “Shepherd, The,” 185
- Shirt-waist strike, The, 209, 210
- “Silver Box,” The, 185
- Social forces:
- Drama, 270-273;
- politics, 255-272;
- radicalism, 276-279;
- religion, 249-254;
- socialism, 262-266;
- social reform, 279-285;
- woman suffrage, 266-269
- Social halls and meeting-places:
- Cafés, bookshops, and saloons, 273-275;
- Clinton Hall, 185, 225, 227, 260;
- need for, 219;
- Social Halls Association, 225, 226
- Socialist movement in America, 262-266
- Social Reform Club, 279
- Southern Educational Conference, 104
- Spahr, Charles B., 280
- Spinoza, 274
- “Spoken Newspaper, The,” 263
- Study-rooms and libraries in the settlement, 103, 104
- Sukloff, Marie, 238
- Summer scenes on the East Side, 69-71
- Sweatshops:
- Conditions in, 152-155, 281;
- conferences on, 282;
- protocol of 1910, 284;
- restriction of, 157-158
- Taft, William Howard, 166
- Tammany Hall, 256-258
- Terry, Ellen, 188
- Thoreau, Henry D., 277
- Tolerance, religious, instances of, 21-23
- Tolstoi, Leo, 233-235, 276
- Trades unions:
- Difficulty of organizing women and girls, 203;
- early organizations of girl workers, 203-206;
- shirt-waist strike, 209;
- Women’s Trade Union League, 206, 207;
- Youth and, 201-215
- Triangle fire and investigation, 208, 209, 212
- Tschaikowsky, N., 238, 268
- Tuberculosis, system of care and instruction of patients, 53, 54
- Vacation houses and camps, 90-94
- Vocational Guidance and Industrial Supervision, proposed Bureau of, 160
- Waring, Colonel, 4
- Wedding customs, 216-219
- White House Conference on Children, 125
- “Whither,” by Morris Rosenfeld, 200
- Whitman, Walt, 276
- Widows’ pensions, the first in Henry Street, 124
- Wilson, Woodrow, 305
- Woman suffrage, 266-269
- Women’s Trade Union League, 206, 207