Excerpt from The Promotion of the Welfare and Hygiene of Maternity and Infancy: The Administration of the Act of Congress of November 21, 1921; For the Period March 20, 1922, to June 30, 1923 The measure in its original form was offered as a means Of begin ning the solution of the long-neglected problems of maternal and infant hygiene which were pointed out in the series Of investigations on maternal and infant mortality made by the Children's Bureau during the nine years of its existence. While certain minor provisions Of the original bill were omitted and a few new stipulations added, the bill as passed carried out the original purpose of the measure in that provision was made for 1) Federal financial aid to the States, (2) the administration Of this aid by the Children's Bureau, (3) the application of such aid to the problem Of reducing maternal and infant mortality and its use in protecting the health of mothers and infants, and (4) the vesting in the States of complete authority to initiate and to administer plans subject to approval by the Federal Board Of Maternity and Infant Hygiene. 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.