This pamphlet is a 1931 reprint of the introduction to A Bibliography of Social Surveys, serving as a presentation of the survey movement at the time. It includes a short historical retrospect, an attempt at a definition of the survey and its purpose, and a brief analysis of trends in surveys since 1907, the year in which the Pittsburgh Survey was begun.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This study of the Newark Almshouse and the Department of the Overseer was made in 1919 for the Newark Board of City Commissioners by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation. It provides recommendations for the alieving of family welfare in the city, going over the scope of work for the department and the almshouse and what reforms could be done.

FRANCIS H. McLEAN was field secretary of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

The Health Show Comes to Town is a report of a public health education campaign led by Dr. W.W. Peter in U.S. cities.

EVART G. ROUTZAHN was associate director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This review is a collection of informal notes on the Chicago Food Show, reprinted from the American Food Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 2, February 1918.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

A bibliography of published research on social conditions in New York City. Published by the Russell Sage Foundation's Charities Publication Committee in 1911.

JAMES BRONSON REYNOLDS was the president of the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.

A study of health and education conditions of two hundred children at the New York Orphanage. The research was first presented in a series of fourteen articles between 1906-1908.

RUDOLPH R. REEDER was superintendent of the Cottage Homes and School of the Orphan Asylum Society in the City of New York

A survey of health conditions in Topeka, Kansas in 1914, in four parts:

   A Public Health Survey of Topeka by Franz Schenider, Jr.

  Delinquency and Corrections by Zenas L. Potter

  Municipal Administration in Topeka by D.O. Decker

  Industrial Conditions in Topeka by Zenas L. Potter

This 1931 study of the uses of New York public schools for recreational purposes is based on data prepared by the New York City Board of Education. The study is presented in three parts, dealing with: the state of the school-center system as a whole at that time; the historical antecedents of the community policy; and the results which have followed its inauguration.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

MARGUERITA P. WILLIAMS, Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation

Address given before the Society for the Promotion of Social Service in the Young Men's Christian Association, New Haven, 1911.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A study conducted in the early 1900s, looking into ways of using public school classrooms in Rochester, New York, for community activities after school hours.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation