Hospital School, Mary R. Campbell. Class 789:
Police supplies and detective exhibit, Mrs. M.E.
Holland. Class 790: Missouri State board
of charities, Miss Mary E. Perry; New Hampshire
State board of charities, Mrs. Lilian Streator; Massachusetts
charity and correctional exhibit; Jewish Charitable
and Educational Union, by committee of ladies; the
Catholic University of America made an exhibit
of all the Catholic institutions relating to charities
and correction, which was collected and installed
by the union, but put in charge of the “Queen’s
Daughters,” Miss Mary Hoxsey.
(2) Class 784, 35 per cent; class 785, 30 per cent; class 786, 20 per cent; class 787, 40 per cent; class 788, 30 per cent; class 789, 15 per cent; class 790, 40 per cent; total, 30 per cent (average).
(3) Missouri State board of charities, Massachusetts exhibit in charities and correction, Johns Hopkins School for Nurses, committee on tuberculosis of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.
(4) It is a very noticeable fact that women are taking the place of men in charitable institutions. This fact, however, is more clearly demonstrated in the general educational exhibit. The exhibits relating to dispensaries and nurses were mostly prepared by women; in fact, they seem to have a monopoly on this particular line of work.
A part of the anatomical and
pathological exhibit was in charge
of Mrs. Eckley, anatomist,
from the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, Chicago, Ill.
The number of women entering
this field was shown to be steadily
on the increase, and the exhibit
relating to medical schools
also showed a great increase
in the number of students.
Nearly all of the reformatory schools for girls and prisons and reformatories for women are under the charge of women, and a great many of the State board of charities are practically under their control.
Women are taking the place of men in the distribution of charities in the larger cities, and Mrs. M.E. Holland, who installed the exhibit on police supplies, and who is also the editor of the Detective, was, at the same time, in charge of the Chicago police exhibit. This is one of the cases where a woman has entered the profession of detective.
(5) No foreign exhibits were
installed by women, although about
15 per cent of the foreign
exhibits were prepared by women.
(6) The most noticeable work given to women at the fair was along the lines demanding executive ability, as is required in organizing exhibits, where tact and business capacity were essential to success. (See answer 4.)
(7) Their work differed from the work at other expositions in the fact that scientific material was presented in an attractive and comprehensive way, so as to be easily understood and appreciated by the general visitor.
(8) Yes. Their work could
easily be compared to that of men. It
was of the same grade, and
there seemed to be no question or
suggestion of inferiority.