VOLUME VII

MARCH 31, 1916

THE PUBLISHERS:

The State Board of Administration
The State Charities Commission
The State Psychopathic Institute

THE INSTITUTION QUARTERLY

An Official Organ of the Public
Charity Service of Illinois

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NUMBER 1

[Printed by authority of the State of Illinois.]

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THE STAFF:

A, L. BOWEN, Executive Secretary, State Charities Commission,
Springfield, Illinois

FRED J. KERN, President, State Board of Administration,
Springfield, Illinois

DR. H. DOUGLAS SINGER, Director, State Psychopathic Institute,
Kankakee, Illinois

Preparedness

The Nation
The Community
The Home

America has a far greater army of dependents, defectives and delinquents who are social burdens than the largest army of defense that has ever been proposed.

Are you in the vanguard of thought and action for social betterment?

Attend the Forty-third Annual

National Conference of Charities
and Correction

Indianapolis, May 10-17, 1916

A week's program on unemployment, health, feeble-mindedness, penal questions, etc.

ADDRESS

For information and programs
315 Plymouth Ct., Chicago, Ill.

NSTITUTION QUARTERLY

Vol. VII. Springfield, Illinois, March 31, 1916.

Issued jointly by the State Board of Administration,
State Charities Commission and the State Psycho-
pathic Institute, to reflect the public charity service
of Illinois; to publish the results of its investigations
and research in the manifold questions of care and
treatment of all classes of State wards and to lead
the way towards a harmonious cooperation and co-
ordination of all public and private agencies through-
out Illinois, which at any point touch the problems
of philanthropy, charity and social betterment.

Editor in Chief and Manager

A. L. BOWEN

Executive Secretary, State Charities Commission

ASSOCIATE EDITORS:

FRED J. KERN, President, Board of Administration

No. 1

DR. H. DOUGLAS SINGER, Director, State Psychopathic Institute

Address all communications to A. L. BOWEN, Springfield, Illinois

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Entered as Second Class Matter, Sept. 26, 1912,

at the Post Office at Springfield, Illinois,

under the act of August 24, 1912.