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.
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 booklet provides a list of Russell Sage Foundation publications on the topic of athletics for schoolboys. A prefatory note explains that the material shows how athletics may become an aid to physical development and help to improve the character of boys in both school and on the street.