Health The Work and Welfare of Children of Agricultural Laborers In Hidalgo County, Texas by Amber Arthun Warburton Helen Wood and Marian M. Crane, M. D. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Appendix A: Four families of agricultural laborers.... Appendix B: Legal regulation of emplovment in agriculture... Page UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, MADAM: There is transmitted herewith The Work and Welfare of Children of Agricultural Laborers in Hidalgo County, Texas, the report of a survey made in 1941 of the employment and living conditions of 342 families of farm laborers and of the work, school opportunities, and health of their children. The survey was undertaken by the Industrial Division, with the cooperation of the Division of Research in Child Development of the Children's Bureau and the Office of Education, Federal Security Agency. The sections of the report concerned with the schooling of the children were prepared with the advice and assistance of Walter H. Gaumnitz, Ph. D., specialist in rural education of the Office of Education, who made a parallel study of school-enrollment problems in the areas visited and provided part of the information on education. The study was planned and carried out under the general direction of Elizabeth S. Johnson, assistant director in charge of research in the Industrial Division of the Bureau, and Mrs. Savilla Millis Simons, specialist in charge of the special-studies unit of the Division. The major part of the planning and work on the study was done by Mrs. Amber Arthun Warburton. The report was prepared by Mrs. Warburton and Helen Wood, with assistance from Helen Seymour in the analysis of the family data. The sections of the study relating to the health of the children and community health services were made under the direction of Katherine Bain, M. D., Director of the Division of Research in Child Development; M. Eleanor Blish, M. D., conducting the field work; and Marian M. Crane, M. D., writing these sections of the report. The Children's Bureau is greatly indebted to the agricultural workers in Hidalgo County, who provided much of the information on which this report is based, and to the interpreters who assisted in the family interviews. Special acknowledgment is made to the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture; to the Texas State Employment Office and its staff in the localities visited; to the Texas Department of Public Welfare; to the Texas State Department of Education and the school officials and teachers of the areas studied; and to the State and local health officials, who contributed information and advice in the planning and in the conduct of the field work. Respectfully submitted. HON. FRANCES PERKINS, KATHARINE F. LENROOT, Chief. |