This booklet presents the results of a study of salaries and certain related work conditions in the field of medical social work made by the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1937. The study's main purpose was to estimate the current salary levels for various positions in this type of social work and to indicate the variations in these levels. The study was a sequel to one made in 1933, which recorded a general decline in medical social work salaries from 1930 to 1933, and it was planned to show how much improvement, if any, had been realized by these workers during four years of recovery.

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

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.

This booklet reprints an article from The Public Health Journal (Toronto, Canada) of October 1913. It discusses the relationship between social surveys and the work of public health authorities.

FRANZ SCHNEIDER, JR. was sanitarian at the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet, reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association of September 18, 1909, contains the seventh annual compilation of deaths and injuries resulting from Fourth of July celebrations. It notes an increase in cases of tetanus, which is caused by the use of blank cartridges in fireworks, and it offers rules for the treatment of blank-cartridge and puncture wounds.

The Charity Organization Bulletins were printed for the confidential use of charity organization societies by the Charity Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. The bulletins for December 1911 through November 1912 cover topics such as street venders and peddlers, runaways, mental health care, methods of raising money, and the relation between medical work and social work.

This booklet provides an argument for medical inspection of schools. It notes that the American population now lives predominantly in towns and cities rather than on farms and the school has become the center of infection in most communities. Medical inspection in schools allows authorities to detect contagious diseases and protect healthy children from those who are ill, stopping or preventing epidemics.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.