An account of the administration of the Wisconsin marriage laws in 1925.

FRED S. HALL was associate director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This book, originally published in 1908 and with a new edition in 1913, is a guide to medical inspections in schools, detailing what practices were being done at the time and what problems and difficulties were present in regards to children's health in schools.

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.

Published in 1912, this book is an exploration of the relationship between fatigue and rest with industrialism and how this relationship can be applied to the rational industrial procedure for a more humane industry. It is a powerful plea for the alleviation of workers on rational, scientific grounds for the promotion of human efficiency.

JOSEPHINE GOLDMARK was publication secretary of the National Consumers' League.

This 1912 paper analyzes the various issues behind a proposal aimed at preventing the increase of criminals, the sterilization of the mentally deficient. It looks into the legal problems surrounding such a proposal, as well as an alternative segregation plan, to document the proposal’s ineffectiveness.

HENRY H. GODDARD was professor at the Department of Research at the Vineland Training School for Feeble-Minded Children, Vineland, N.J.

Prepared for the American Sociological Society in 1956, this book considers the ways and means of more effective utilization of sociology in the treatment of mental illness. It calls for more effective practice and the advancement of basic research and theory in regards to mental illness.

JOHN A. CLAUSEN was Chief Laboratory of Socio-environmental Studies National Institute of Mental Health

The Doctor and His Patient documents the rapid changes in health at the time of publication in 1963, spurred on by technology and the social organization of medicine, and how these developments influence the relationship between doctor and patient. It also explores the implications of these changes for medical education, serving as a guide for students of medicine and other health professions.

SAMUEL W. BLOOM was associate professor of sociology at the State University of New York College of Medicine Downstate Medical Center.

A directory of the organizations employing trained visiting nurses, with chapters on the principles, organization and methods of administration of such work.

YSSABELLA WATERS, Henry Street Nurses’ Settlement, New York City

A special study of the Springfield Survey.

WALTER L. TREADWAY, assistant surgeon, U.S. Public Health Service.

In 1900, Alice Willard Solenberger was given charge of the Central District of the Chicago Bureau of Charities, a territory in the South Side of the city where a large number of applicants were homeless men. Recognizing the inadequate treatment of these men, Solenberger devised a new plan of treatment, adapted largely from the methods used in the treatment and investigation of families, calling for greater care, greater skill, and greater sympathy in dealing with applicants. This book presents the methods behind the new plan of treatment.

ALICE WILLARD SOLENBERGER, Central District of the Chicago Bureau of Charities

Survey of public health interventions across the United States, supported by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation in 1916.

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