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

Springfield, Illinois

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

Springfield, Illinois

Kankakee, Illinois

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

[Printed by authority of the State of 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.

No. 1

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.

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.