establishing cooperation between the States and Public Health Service.” The Children's Bureau was appointed by President Wilson, the efforts of which were directed toward ascertaining the relations between poverty, disease and mortality. In 1918, the first Federal grants to States for public health services were made available. A retirement plan for lightkeepers was introduced (1918) In 1918, the first federal loans were offered to shipbuilding companies to house their workers. A federal leprosy hospital was authorized (1917). Congress extended “the use of the special fund and authorizing acceptance of gifts under the Rehabilitation of Disabled Soldiers' Act.” Legislation Provided six months’ gratuity to dependents of deceased sailors in the navy. The Civil Service Retirement System was established (1920) to provide pensions to retired civilian federal employees. The Death on the High Seas Act (1920) aimed at compensating the wives of sailors who had died at sea. The legislation enabled survivors “to recover pecuniary damages, or the lost wages of their relatives on whom they depended upon financially.” Corporate welfare work was encouraged by the Wilson Administration. Wartime measures A National War Labor Board was established, which improved working conditions in factories by insisting on an eight-hour workday, no child labor, and better safety conditions. The United States Housing Corporation was established (1918) to build housing projects for wartime workers. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of 1918 On the anniversary of the United States’ entry into the war (the 6th of April 1918), the Children's Bureau, funded with $150,000 from the President's Defense Appropriation, launched a national health education program called “Children’s Year.” This campaign, which was repeated the following year, provided information “on the feeding and care of babies for their mothers and involved the weighing and measuring of some six million infants.” The effects of the campaign were not temporary, as various states set up child hygiene divisions in their public health departments, and the state of California itself established 22 permanent health centres as a result of the bureau's initiative. This program led to the postwar passage of the 1921 Sheppard-Towner Act, which also came about, according to one study, “largely as a result of the stimulus provided by the second White House Conference on Child Welfare, called by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919.” Veterans The War Risk Insurance Act of 1914. The War Risk Insurance Act of 1917. The Rehabilitation Law of 1919 provided disabled