ABSTRACT
In social welfare work of the latter kind many German towns excel, and in no department of local administration can their example be studied with greater profit. As social welfare work has grown, new machinery has been called for with a view to economy and co-ordination of effort. The municipality of Breslau has recently erected in different parts of the town buildings, known as “Welfare Houses,” intended to serve as centres for social welfare endeavours of various kinds. In the crusade against infant mortality attention is first given to the time prior to the birth of the child. The system of municipal guardianship, under which illegitimate children become at birth the legal wards of officers appointed by the local authorities, is one of the most effectual of the measures by which the terrible mortality amongst these children is being combated.
