This booklet was intended to form part of the legal section of a general survey of small loans prepared by the Russell Sage Foundation. Topics include the small loan business subject to regulation under police power, regulations restrained in part by state and federal constitutions, small loan legislation valid under the principle of constitutional classification, miscellaneous constitutional requirements, and who may raise questions on the constitutionality of statuses and general principles followed by courts in determining them. A table of cases is provided.

FRANK R. HUBACHEK was a member of the bar of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

This booklet discusses the Provident Loan Society of New York, which was created to make emergency loans in response to the financial panic of 1893–1894. It presents the society’s act of incorporation, its constitution, and a list of remedial loan societies operating in 1932.

ROLF NUGENT worked in the Department of Remedial Loans at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet provides statistical information, in the form of many tables, on school centers—a school that is used regularly at least one evening a week for two or more activities.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY worked in the Department of Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet presents the draft of the Uniform Small Loan Law, regulating lending in the amounts of $300

This booklet continues a series of similar annual summaries of operating statistics of private family welfare agencies issued since 1936. It is based on data reported monthly and made available to the reporting agencies and others in a monthly table of comparative statistics.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

During 1944 the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation continued the collection of statistics of the operations of family casework organizations with the same sixty agencies that participated in the two preceding years. This booklet contains detailed comparative statistics of the work of those agencies for the calendar year 1944, derived from their reported monthly statistics. It also records service trends, shown by these and corresponding earlier data, for the nine-year period 1936 to 1944.

RALPH G. HURLIN was director of the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet is reprinted from The Proceedings of the Academy of Political Science of July 1912. It contains the follow papers: “The Spread of the Survey Idea,” by Paul U. Kellogg; “A Social Survey of a Typical American City,” by Shelby M. Harrison; and “A Sanitary and Health Survey,” by George Thomas Palmer.

PAUL U. KELLOGG was the director of the Pittsburgh Survey of 1907–1909.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was the director of the Syracuse Social Survey.

GEORGE THOMAS PALMER was a physician in Springfield, Illinois.

This booklet contains a report of living conditions in Scranton, Pennsylvania, conducted by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell Sage Foundation and published by the Century Club of Scranton. It covers the following topics: community assets, education, public health and sanitation, civic improvement, betterment agencies, recreation, taxation and public finance, work conditions and relations, and delinquency.

This booklet reprints an article from The Public Health Journal (Toronto, Canada) of October 1913. It discusses the relationship between social surveys and the work of public health authorities.

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

This booklet provides a list of works about social surveys.

ZENAS L. POTTER worked in the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.