Children, PREVENTION

OF CRUELTY TO. Organizations to protect children against the cruelty of parents and guardians and the inhuman demands of employers are of very recent growth. In England the Factory Acts and kindred legislation regulated juvenile labor; but the Society of which Elbridge T. Gerry is president, started 1875 in New York, was the first to deal with parental abuse. In 1891 this Society obtained 2,761 convictions and rescued 3,683 children, relieving 1,697 others. There are now 13 similar societies in New York, 14 in Ohio, 10 in Indiana, and ab. 70 in other States. There are also foreign Societies in many of the large towns of Great Britain and Canada and in the British colonies. The Société protective de France has branches at the large manufacturing centers; and other Societies exist at Milan, Madrid, Puerto Rico, Havana, St. Thomas, Bogota, etc.