Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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LILLIAN D., an American New York Hospital Training School for Nurses, and at the Woman's Medical College. In 1893 she founded, and since then has been the president and head worker of the Henry Street (New York City) Settlement. She was also the origschool nursing in the world. It was nurses in New York City, this work representing the first municipalization of school nursing in the world. It was chiefly due to her efforts that, in 1908, the Federal Children's Bureau came into being. She was the delegate of the Federal Children's Bureau to the International Conference at Cannes, France, and the United States delegate to the Woman's International Conference at Zurich, in 1919. She was also a member and at times an officer of many charitable societies and institutions, most of which were connected with work on behalf of children. She wrote besides many magazine articles, pamphlets, and reports, "Th "The House on Henry Street" (1915). girt by the W. N. W. of Germany; comprises

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