The sixth biennial issue of reports on the status of organized activities in social work and in related fields, including 83 signed articles prepared by authorities on the topics discussed as well as a directory of national and state agencies, both governmental and voluntary, related to social work.

A Brief Description of the Springfield Survey Exhibition, reprinted from The American City, vol. XII, No. 2, February 1915.

This pamphlet reviews the work of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, as well as the National Conference of Jewish Charities, in regard to relief and care for the homeless. It was written while the Transient Division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the first nationwide program for the care of the homeless, was in operation.

Jeffrey R. Brackett was chairman of advisory board, Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare.

From Charities and the Commons, promoting the benefits of outdoor play and public playgrounds.

Elmer Elsworth Brown, United States Commissioner of Education

This pamphlet provides recommendations for safer celebratory traditions for the Fourth of July.

August H. Brunner, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A model aimed for use by various institutions that provide asylum to orphaned children and struggling mothers, including temporary receiving homes into which mothers who might otherwise abandon their children are received with them. The model is designed to exhibited the chief sanitary features which the medical profession recognize as essential to success in saving the lives and improving the vitality of the babies who must have institutional care temporarily.

From the foreword: “Every other winter the legislatures of about forty states meet in deliberative session. They consider approximately 1,000 bills on educational questions and enact about 200 of them into law. This pamphlet has been compiled with the object of making available to legislators, school workers, and others having at heart the interests of public education, salient facts concerning school conditions in all the states. The figures have been derived from official sources and every care exercised to insure their accuracy. Every endeavor has been made to avoid complexities and technicalities. The object of the work is to render available to each state the experience of all.

Including a directory of institutions dealing with tuberculosis in the United States and Canada. Compiled under the direction of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis by Philip P. Jacobs.

From the Introduction: “The development of the anti-tuberculosis activity in the United States during the last ten years has been so rapid and the extension of its field so varied that the need of a comprehensive survey of the work is obvious. A similar situation was met in 1904 by the appearance of the ‘Directory of Institutions Dealing with Tuberculosis’ compiled by Miss Lilian Brandt and published by the New York Charity Organization Society in cooperation with the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The present volume includes a revision of that directory as an important section of its contents.”

A report concerning what to do with the distress caused by unemployment and how the community is to bear the burden imposed upon it, aiming to serve community agencies that must deal with the phases of unemployment during times of industrial depression.