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 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the girls' branch of the house of refuge has been placed in charge of a woman trained for social work in Chicago, Martha P. Falconer, who has employed as teachers about eight Wellesley and Vassar graduates who specialized on sociology during their college course and later took postgraduate training for social work. In glancing over the bulletin of the Thirty-fifth National Conference of Charities and Corrections, held at Richmond, Virginia, in May, 1908, I find that among hundreds of offices held by women are these: Secretary charity organization society; clerk of juvenile court; assistant superintendent of industrial school for girls; truant officers; investigating clerk board of children's guardians; secretary of the same board; circulation manager of Charities and Commons; supervisor of playgrounds; superintendent State training-school for girls; district superintendent bureau of charities; superintendent nurses' association; matron of home for working-girls; matron of farm school and home for nervous and backward children; probation officer; superintendent I. O. O. F. home; agent soldiers' orphan home industrial school for girls; head resident neighborhood house; superintendent of probationers State industrial school; registrar tenement-house department; superintendent visiting nurses.

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