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.

This booklet discusses a film about the use of the schoolhouse as a social center and explains how to obtain the film and make it effective.

CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.

This article discusses a film titled "A Sane Fourth of July," created by Clarence Arthur Perry. According to the article, the film realistically depicts the horrors of the traditional Independence Day celebration but also shows that the holiday can be enjoyable when sanely observed.

This document provides a map showing which states have laws or regulations governing schoolhouse construction followed by a discussion of schoolhouse construction generally.

This booklet is a reprint of chapter 10 of Clarence Arthur Perry’s The Wider Use of the School Plant. It recounts the formation of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City and discusses the athletic badge competition, class athletics, athletic courtesy, cooperation of school officials, folk dancing, and the girls’ branch of the league.

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

This article notes that recreation in the modern city has become a matter of public concern and that the government can no longer take a laissez-faire attitude toward it. In devoting public funds to playgrounds, parks, libraries, and other areas, civic leaders are aware that they are not only providing people with something of positive value but also counteracting negative influences. The article goes on to discuss commercially organized recreations and offers a list of recreational resources in various New York City neighborhoods. It then presents separate sections on the penny arcade, dancing academies and dance halls, meeting halls, theaters, and moving-picture shows.

MICHAEL M. DAVIS, JR., worked for the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This document is a reprint by the Russell Sage Foundation of an editorial in the New York Evening Journal of January 20, 1911. It notes that public schools are unused an average of sixty-one hours out of every one hundred hours and proposes that the schools be used as centers of social life.

This booklet argues that the federal government can promote improved education more effectively than any other body and offers a plan for the government to do so. It discusses cost estimates, the necessity of sending people into communities rather than only publishing documents, the duties of such community workers, evidence of support for the proposed measure, and a discussion of where additional information can be found in official publications.