A 1913 survey of the status of hospital social work, Social Work in Hospitals is born of the evident need for exchange of experience among hospitals around the country, as well as a desire for a more conscious and consistent effort to establish standards for social work in hospitals. Topics reported include the mentally unbalanced, employment for the handicapped, single mothers, organization of social workers, and the future of hospital social service.

IDA M. CANNON was head worker of the Social Service Department at Massachusetts General Hospital.

This study of the Newark Almshouse and the Department of the Overseer was made in 1919 for the Newark Board of City Commissioners by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation. It provides recommendations for the alieving of family welfare in the city, going over the scope of work for the department and the almshouse and what reforms could be done.

FRANCIS H. McLEAN was field secretary of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This review is a collection of informal notes on the Chicago Food Show, reprinted from the American Food Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 2, February 1918.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

A study of the social institutions and agencies of the state of Alabama, as related to its war activities.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A summary of reports issued by the British Ministry of Munitions published in 1917, including work on labor regulations, the employment of women and youth, and a comparison of the munitions industries of England and France.

HENRIETTE R. WALTER, Investigator, Division of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

A volume of a series of Russell Sage studies on the occupations of women in New York in the early 1900s.  Working Girls in Evening Schools is a report on the statistics of women attending night classes.

MARY VAN KLEECK was secretary of the Committee on Women's Work at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Published in 1915, this report presented the various industrial investigations under the Russell Sage Foundation since the foundation's organization eight years earlier and how these efforts brought about improvements in social and living conditions in the United States. Also included is a bibliography of all of the foundation's publications regarding industry up to that year.

MARY VAN KLEECK was secretary of the Committee on Women's Work at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Address before the division on the family of the National Conference of Social Work, June 1919.

JAMES H. TUFTS was head of the department of philosophy at the University of Chicago

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this paper defines and examines what was referred to as the Vermont Prison Labor Law, which allowed a person sentenced to jail to work for a salary. It details the conditions surrounding this law, and argues that most prisoners need care and guidance more than punishment. Printed with Employment for Jail Prisoners in Wisconsin by Hornell Hart.

FRANK H. TRACY, sheriff, Montpellier Vermont

A report of a 1915 study of child welfare agencies in Pennsylvania, with recommendations for improving conditions.

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.