This 1947 bibliographical study presents research related to the urban planning concept of the neighborhood unit. Topics include various U.S. city plans.

James Dahir was a member of the Social Work Year Book Department.

A report on the proceedings of the second National Service Conference, held April 2-4, 1967, in Washington, regarding the pros and cons of using national service to address a range of national problems, including improved health and education, the War on Poverty, and related challenges.

Contributors: Charles S. Benson, Roland M. Bixler, Jacob Clayman, Eli Ginzberg, Curtis Aller, Roger W. Little, Leon Bramson, Reed Martin, Mildred Robbins, Michael B. Katz, Dorothy M. Knoell, Leon M. Lessinger, Hyman Frankel, A. P. Angelides, Sydney Howe, Ruth Hagy Brod, Harold Taylor, John Naisbitt, Richard Graham, Al Carp, Jack Howard, David Squire, Donald Brown, Felix Rimberg, Dennis J. Clark, Homer Hagedorn, William Josephson, H. Donald Wilson, Terrence Cullinan, William A. Delano, Joshua L. Miner, Dyke W. Williams, David Dichter, Edward F. Hall, Robert Bird

Donald J. Eberly was National Service Secretariat.

A systematic presentation of the aims, methods, and cautions to be observed in the field of music in welfare work, made for music educators and musicians in the institutional fields. It stems from the author’s experience as director of the Bureau of Mental Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Willem van de Wall was director of the Committee for the Study of Music In Institutions, and lecturer in the School of Music Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. Assisted by Clara Maria Liepmann.

This 1946 volume examines the systematic application of music as a means of occupational therapy and of recreation in hospitals in the first half of the twentieth century, particularly those for mental and nervous diseases. It stresses the need for professional collaboration between hospital workers and musician and presents a plan for integration of a music program into the hospital service.

Willem van de Wall was head of the Adult Education Section, Education Branch, Internal Affairs and Communications Division, Office of Military Government for Germany, United States.

Morbidity in the Municipal Hospitals of the City of New York was the result of a pilot study, undertaken by the Departments of Hospitals and Health of the City of New York in cooperation with the Russell Sage Foundation, to test a plan for hospital morbidity reporting and to evaluate data thus obtained. The study was concerned with procedures for collecting periodic morbidity data from hospitals and with analysis of the statistics of the 121,952 patients discharged from 31 municipal hospitals during a six-month experimental period. Here is a comprehensive analysis of in-patient data, covering race, sex, age, diagnosis, length of hospital stay, condition on discharge, surgical interventions, etc., presented in explanatory text and 56 tables. Including recommended specifications for initiating regular periodic morbidity reporting by all New York hospitals, including cost estimates. Previous experience in hospital morbidity reporting is also summarized.

Marta Fraenkel was assistant to the commissioner and director of medical statistics and records service in the Department of Hospitals, City of New York.

Carl L. Erhardt was director of the Bureau of Records and Statistics in the Department of Health, City of New York.

This 1933 survey of moneylending in Great Britain is part of a general survey of small loans prepared for the Russell Sage Foundation, the Small Loan Series of the Department of Remedial Loans. It traces the development of British moneylending by chronological periods and aims to show the devices whereby the enterprise of moneylending has adapted itself to its changing legal, economic, and social environments.

Dorothy Johnson Orchard was research assistant at the Russell Sage Foundation. Geoffrey May was a member of the Inner Temple, London.

Featuring “A Study of the Collective Agreement between the United Mine Workers of America and the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company” and “An Analysis of the Problem of Coal in the United States.” Part of the Industrial Relations Series of the Russell Sage Foundation, studying the experience in organizing relations between employers and employees in the United States with a view to giving the workers a larger measure of participation in the management of industry and documenting the fundamental changes taking place in industry related to human welfare, well-being, and the standard of living.

Mary Van Kleeck was director industrial studies at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Migration and Social Welfare, published in 1940, identifies the more pressing problems faced by migrants in the United States, including the sources and causes of migration and the social effects of inadequate welfare provision. It was written on special commission from the Social Work Year Book Department. Topics include employment, housing, health, and education of migrants. It proposes a national immigration policy and includes a bibliography on interstate migration.

Philip E. Ryan was executive secretary of the Council on Interstate Migration.

Based on field studies of the 1929 administration of marriage laws in 96 in 30 states of the United States, Marriage and the State is an account of the marriage laws in existence at the time. The historical background of marriage law and social importance of the topics are also considered.

Mary E. Richmond was the author of Social Diagnosis and What Is Social Case Work? She was the director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. Fred S. Hall was joint author of American Marriage Laws.

This manual was prepared as a companion to Marriage and the State by Mary E. Richmond and Fred S. Hall. Marriage and the State is an account, based on field studies in 96 cities in 30 states, of the marriage laws in existence in 1929. This volume combines all the statutory regulations of marriage, and all the pertinent court decisions relating to marriage in each jurisdiction of the continental United States at the time. It contains 50 outlines of the law of the several states, the law of the District of Columbia, and the federal law. The statute law includes all legislation in force at the end of the 1927 legislative sessions; the decisional law, all printed cases up to January, 1927.

Geoffrey May was a staff member of the Russell Sage Foundation and served on the faculties of the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Chicago.