Statistics of Medical Social Casework in New York City, 1944

During 1944 the medical social work departments of fifty-three hospitals cooperated with the Committee on Medical Social Work Statistics of the United Hospital Fund of New York and the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation by compiling monthly statistics of their casework service according to a uniform plan. This booklet summarizes the comparative statistics for 1944 obtained from the monthly reports of the fifty-three departments. It also contains a brief outline of the plan used in compiling the data.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.