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Infant Mortality

Its Relation to Social and Industrial Conditions
Author
Henry H. Hibbs, Jr.
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127 pages

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This series of papers is the outcome of a house-to-house investigation of infant mortality in four wards of Boston made in 1910-11 and 1911-12 by the Research Department of the Boston School for Social Workers under a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation.

HENRY H. HIBBS, JR., Department of Research of the Boston School for Social Workers and the Department of Sociology of the University of Illinois

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Independence Day Legislation and Celebration Suggestions

Facts Gathered from Special Reports
Editor
Lee F. Hanmer
Ebook
Publication Date
32 pages

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Reports published by the foundation's Department of Recreation in 1913.

LEE F. HANMER was associate director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Measurements as Applied to School Hygiene

Author
Luther H. Gulick
Ebook
Publication Date
11 pages

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This pamphlet argues for definite measurements of results in the study of school hygiene and other areas in order to improve the school system. It was published by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1911.

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

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Evening Recreation Centers

Author
Clarence Arthur Perry
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Publication Date
32 pages

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A pamphlet published in 1910 by what was the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation. Other research areas of the Child Hygiene department included "folk dancing," "athletics," and the "use of school buildings."

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A Community Plan in Children's Work

A Report Presented at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, May 1915
Author
C. C. Carstens
Ebook
Publication Date
12 pages

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An address presented at one of 47 different sessions of the Forty-Second National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Baltimore for a week in May 1915.

C. C. CARSTENS was secretary and general agent of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

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Open-Air Schools

Author
Leonard P. Ayres
Ebook
Publication Date
171 pages

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Published in 1910, this book presents the essential features and a brief history of the open-air school, a new type of schooling held almost entirely in the open air, with education focusing on outdoor life.

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

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Medical Inspection Legislation

Author
Leonard P. Ayres
Ebook
Publication Date
53 pages

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A 1911 survey of state legislation requiring medical inspections for schools and institutions.

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

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Laggards in Our Schools

Author
Leonard P. Ayres
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Publication Date
236 pages

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Laggards in Our Schools presents the findings of a 1907 study on disabled children and the effects of education on their early years. The study analyzed the specifics of the children’s’ conditions and what factors caused them to drop behind in school, as well as to what extent attendance, homework, and other methods affected progress.

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

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Methods of Investigation in Social and Health Problems

Authors
Donald B. Armstrong
Franz Schneider, Jr.
Louis I. Dublin
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Publication Date
28 pages

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Three papers were read at a meeting of the American Public Health Association in 1916. They report on the lack of statistical evidence and analysis in health investigations, and why the statistical method is such a necessary element in public health research.

DONALD ARMSTRONG was executive officer of the Community Health and Tuberculosis Demonstration and assistant secretary of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.

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

LOUIS I. DUBLIN was statistician at the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.

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A growing literature has documented the ways that racial inequalities in wealth, health, and access to credit have threatened the stability of homeownership during the recent housing crisis and prior to it. Reverse mortgages, which allow older homeowners to covert home equity into cash in return for the lender receiving the home at the time of their death, are an understudied component of the housing landscape. Racially-stratified wealth and health vulnerabilities may shape decisions surrounding reverse mortgages, as well as the risks and benefits of this loan option.