How Long do I Have to Wait for Things to Get Better?
Building a Social Safety Net

by Carmelita McGrath

photo of several adults and children
Credit: Child Welfare Association Photo, Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives.

Women holding children

Staff and mothers show off healthy children at a Child Welfare Association Clinic, St. John's, 1926. An article with the photo said that the greatest threats to children's health were: sewage, houseflies, inadequate food and the lack of health care and social services. These threats were old ones, and remained long after Confederation.