This paper, read before the New York State Conference of Charities and Correction in 1913, is concerned with the best way to help people with mental deficiencies and what roles they have in society. It estimates annual costs of care in the state of New York.

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

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.

A study and recommendations on the care and cure of enuresis, or, bedwetting, in child-care institutions.

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

This book defines and explains the social case history. Published in 1920 as a guide for social scientists, it argues that case history is defined by its intended purpose; namely, the immediate purpose of furthering effective treatment of individual clients, the ultimate purpose of general social betterment, or the incidental purpose of establishing the case worker herself in critical thinking.

ADA ELIOT SHEFFIELD was director of the Boston Bureau on Illegitimacy.

All the reports presented at the fifty-first Annual Congress of the American Prison Association in 1921. The subjects of the papers are wide in scope, many relating not only to the administration of prisons and the treatment of prisoners, but to probation, parole, mental health, juvenile delinquency, and other related subjects.

C. B. ADAMS was president of the American Prison Association.

This report of research conducted at Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services was designed to develop a comparable fund of reported experiences of evaluative studies of mental health carried out in social welfare settings. It evaluates the program at Altro from the rehabilitation of post-hospitalized mental patients, based on research and in depth analysis on the resulting data.

HENRY J. MEYER was professor of social work and sociology at the University of Michigan.

EDGAR F. BORGATTA was social psychologist at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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

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