The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . achers for voca-tional rehabilitation. Necessary medicaltreatment will be looked after by thesurgeon generals office of the War De-partment. The bill appropriates $10,-000,000 to carry out its provisions. THE SUPERSTRUCTURE OFA COMMUNITY THE Survey . of Social Agenciesof Alameda County, California,just published, looks like one ofthose formidable and incomprehensible-printed documents with which assess-ment boards or zoning commissionsfrom time to time add to the worldsliterature. There are long tables ofnames and descriptive items marshalledin columns; the
The Survey October 1917-March 1918 . achers for voca-tional rehabilitation. Necessary medicaltreatment will be looked after by thesurgeon generals office of the War De-partment. The bill appropriates $10,-000,000 to carry out its provisions. THE SUPERSTRUCTURE OFA COMMUNITY THE Survey . of Social Agenciesof Alameda County, California,just published, looks like one ofthose formidable and incomprehensible-printed documents with which assess-ment boards or zoning commissionsfrom time to time add to the worldsliterature. There are long tables ofnames and descriptive items marshalledin columns; there are maps; and thewhole thing is folded in the middle asthough the printer had given up thestruggle to produce pages of a manage-able size. The County Board of Public Wel-fare, some of the leading social workersof the county and students of the Uni-versity of California share with Jean-Howard McDuffie the guilt of produc-ing such a volume—and the credit. For,let us hasten to add that when, summing 600 THE SURTEY FOR MARCH 2, 191. THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE CURL ON THE COVER up all your courage, you turn the pages,you discover that this is really a mostimpressive statement of facts concerningthe delicate structure of public and pri-vate agencies built up in the county torender social service. The survey was made both for thepractical purpose of providing those en-gaged in social work with accurate in-formation on everything they ought toknow concerning forces already at workupon the problems which interest them,and for the academic purpose of present-ing a picture of these forces as a wholeand of measuring their activity againstthe social needs of the are special articles on the differ-ent aspects of poverty and social mal-adjustment, a very full directory, adigest of laws applicable in the countyand other features. Alameda county includes Oakland,Berkeley and several other suburbs ofSan Francisco, so that this substantialreview of its social resources should b
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