Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Community health clinics originated in Boston in the early 1920's with "well child conferences," weekly treatment centers run by a voluntary nursing agency. Authority for these centers, whose practice was limited to preventive treatment of children, was transferred to the Boston Municipal Health Center by the end of the decade, and in 1929 each of the city's three medical schools took responsibility for some of the clinics. At Harvard this job was delegated to the Professor of Maternal and Child Health of the School of Public Health, and he continued to organize the informal weekly treatment centers...
...public health concepts. She picked out the Bromley-Heath Clinic because of its proximity to the Harvard Medical School. After her death, a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1966 led to the expansion of the center's activities from weekly sessions for treatment of children to care of children and mothers five days a week...
Neither Dr. Salber or her husband could live comfortably, though, and they were particularly anxious that their four children not grow up in such an atmosphere. When the Harvard School of Public Health offered Dr. Salber's husband a position in 1956, they were able to get their visa and move to the States. A few years after they left the clinic in Durban collapsed...
...Martha Eliot Health Center serves an area of four and a half census districts--that is, about 17,000 people in Jamaica Plain and a small part of Roxbury. Because restricted funding has limited care to mothers and children under 21, only approximately 8000 residents are potential patients. The Bromley-Heath housing project, where the center is located, is nearly all Negro, with a smattering of Cubans and Puerto Ricans. The dilapidated homes around the project belong to Negroes, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Greeks, and some old Boston Irish-Catholics. Many of these old Irish families are unwilling to come...
...urban crisis is teaching academics--and those school system professionals who take their heads out of the sand--that no one really knows precisely how or why children learn. The Coleman Report gives hints at best, but years of experimentation are necessary before academics can fashion successful programs of compensatory education and integration. Academics are pointed in the right direction, but they are still blindfolded...