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Excerpt from Official Souvenir Program of the Eleventh Annual Conference of Eastern Public Education Associations Meeting With the Great International Congress on Tuberculosis, 1908: September 28th to October 3rd, Under the Auspices of the Public Education Association, Washington, D. C., Subject: "The Public School as a Safeguard to Public Health" The Public Federal Education Association, incorporated under the laws of the District of Columbia, is a volunteer organization, which is primarily responsible for the passage through the United States Congress of such humanitarian laws as the Compulsory Education Act of 1906, the Free Lectures to the People Acts of 1904, 1905, 1906, the Increase in Teachers' Salaries and Organic School Act of 1906, and the introduction and passage of the Child Labor Act of 1908, the Employment Agen cies Regulation Acts of 1906, 1907. With other organizations it is responsible for the passage of the juvenile-court Act of 1905, and of the Investigation into the Labor of Women and Children Act of 1907. It is now agitating the establishment of Public Schools on Naval Reservations, proper provisions for Public Playgrounds, Public Baths, and School Gardens. Outside of its legislative activities, it conducts Lectures on First Aid to the Injured, has Committees on Public Lectures, School Reorganiza tion, Hospital Reading, etc., etc. The Public Federal Education Association has a good educational Reference Library and Bibliography which may be consulted by the Delegates. A visit to the extensive library of the U. S. Bureau of Education, 8th and G Sts., N. W., is recommended. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. I