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.

During 1944 the medical social work departments of fifty-three hospitals cooperated with the Committee on Medical Social Work Statistics of the United Hospital Fund of New York and the Department of Statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation by compiling monthly statistics of their casework service according to a uniform plan. This booklet summarizes the comparative statistics for 1944 obtained from the monthly reports of the fifty-three departments. It also contains a brief outline of the plan used in compiling the data.

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 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 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 presents evidence indicating that social work salaries are too low for the development of social work as a profession. It includes diagrams presenting results of a study conducted by the Russell Sage Foundation that aimed to trace the course of salaries in social work over the period of rising prices and wages during and just after World War I and through the subsequent period until 1926.

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

This booklet reports on a study of children’s handwriting conducted by the Russell Sage foundation and presents the scale that the study produced. It discusses how the handwriting samples were obtained as well as how they were read and scored.

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

This booklet presents a scale for measuring the quality of adults’ handwriting following a request by the Municipal Civil Service Commission. It includes an explanation for how the scale was developed.

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

This booklet discusses social case workers and how they contribute to better industrial conditions. Topics include how information spreads, investigation of industrial facts, adequate plan of treatment, the personal equipment of the case worker, health and income, health and hours of labor, appreciation of the relation between labor conditions and social conditions, and making case data accessible to inquirers.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was the director of surveys and exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This report, a collaboration between Project Talent at the University of Pittsburgh and the Russell Sage Foundation, presents the results of a survey of the attitudes of secondary school students, teachers, and counselors toward ability tests and provides an appraisal of the extent of these tests’ use.