PREFACE. The twenty-ninth annual meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction was held in Detroit, Mich., May, 28 to June 3, 1902, the second time that the Conference had met in that city, the first having been in 1875. An unusual amount of space has been given to the discussions in the different sections, but in the compass of one volume it is impossible to report them all. Only those are included for which special arrangement was made with the respective committees. The papers read before the sections have been printed, with few exceptions. In one case the manuscript was lost and never reached the editor's hands. Two or three papers which should have appeared in the body of the book were received in time only to be inserted in the Minutes and Discussions, but they are specially indexed in the Table of Contents. The next meeting will be held in Atlanta, Ga., Mr. Robert W. de Forest, of New York, President. NEW YORK, November, 1902. FRONTISPIECE. PREFACE. Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS. State Supervision of Private Charities, by HASTINGS H. HART Private Institutions and Public Supervision, by Rev. D. J. Mc- State Control and Supervision, by F. H. WINES, LL.D.. Discussion on State Supervision of Charities 367 The Massachusetts Farm Colony for the Feeble-minded, by W. E. 482 Discussion on Feeble-minded 485 |