CHILD WELFARE MOVEMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN

Althought the child welfare movement as we know it in this country is mainly of the twentieth century, its foundations were well and truly laid in the nineteenth, writes Mrs. H. A. L. Fisher to "The Times." Philanthropists and statesmen alike realized the child’s urgent need for special protection, and care: the first Factory Act was passed in 1802, the first grant from the Exchequer to elementary schools made in 1833…… Fruitful Agitation Looking back, those of us who have been in the movement for the last 30 years or more will probably agree that a great stimulus was given by the report of the interdepartmental committee on physical deterioration in 1904, itself the