A volume of the Russell Sage Foundation's Social Science Frontiers, occasional publications reviewing new fields for social science development. This paper explores the links between the social and biomedical sciences concerning the prolongation and termination of life, with the aim to stimulate scholars, foundations, and government agencies to further study death and dying in American society.

DIANA CRANE is associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Based on Jacob H. Schiff's 1908 argument for the establishment of an unofficial employment bureau for the City of New York for the benefit of the unemployed, this 1909 report, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, is an examination of the need for such a bureau and an inquiry into the reasons for the discontinuance of other similar labor bureaus that attempted to deal with the same problem.

EDWARD T. DEVINE was Schiff Professor of Social Economy at Columbia University and general secretary of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

This book, published in 1955, is a successor to Joanna C. Colcord's Your Community: Its Provision for Health, Education, Safety, and Welfare, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1939. It is designed as a broadly conceived working manual of community study aimed at not just social workers, like its predecessor, but a more varied group of citizens. It details procedures for conducting the survey, both in its organizational and methodological aspects.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

This 1918 report, containing a suggested "War Program," is based on a first-hand study of the various agencies and the war conditions under which they were operating during World War I. It argues for the enlargement of social service and welfare work for veterans and their dependents and was published under the authority of Governor Richard I. Manning, the State Council of Defense, and the State Board of Charities and Corrections.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the 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 bibliography of published research on social conditions in New York City. Published by the Russell Sage Foundation's Charities Publication Committee in 1911.

JAMES BRONSON REYNOLDS was the president of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

A survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas in 1914, in four parts:

   A Public Health Survey of Topeka by Franz Schenider, Jr.

  Delinquency and Corrections by Zenas L. Potter

  Municipal Administration in Topeka by D.O. Decker

  Industrial Conditions in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter

Address given before the Society for the Promotion of Social Service in the Young Men's Christian Association, New Haven, 1911.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this paper presents the structure of the Westchester County Penitentiary, whose prisoners are employed on the farm the penitentiary rests on. It argues that, instead of being a liability to the county, the prison is an asset, and that, instead of being a place of punishment, it is a training school that returns its wards to society as better men because of their experiences on the farm. Key to this system is that the prisoners are self-governing through a method of classification and rewards that is outlined in detail in this paper.

V. EVERIT MACY was commissioner of public welfare, Westchester County, N.Y.