ACCIDENT CASES: dealings with employers

in, 247-248
ACCOUNTS, HOUSEHOLD: problem of dealing

with housewife who cannot keep, 148,
149; wilful inaccuracies in keeping, how
shown, 150

ACCURACY IN WITNESSES: tests of, summar-
ized, 64

ADDRESSES: of employers, use of city direc-
tory in making more accurate, 246; ways
of getting information about, through
postal authorities, 336

ADVICE: premature, in first interview, 129-
130; queries regarding sources of, for a
widow's family, 404

AFFIDAVITS, PERSONAL: not satisfactory evi-
dence of age, 257

"After-care and Prophylaxis:" by Adolf
Meyer, M.D., 352

AGE: a matter of public record, 123; of chil-
dren, reasons for knowing exactly, 154-
155; ways of determining, 256-258
AGENTS FOR LANDLORDS: as sources of in-
formation, 281

ALCOHOL: excessive use of, and inebriety,

429; queries regarding use of, for an
inebriate, 430, 431; for a patient pos-
sibly insane, 438

ALCOHOLIC: employer's interest in case of an,

242

ALCOHOLISM. See Inebriety

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SOCIETIES FOR
ORGANIZING CHARITY: suggestions about
foreign correspondents made by, 326
AMERICAN STATESMAN who "dealt with the
facts" criticised by N. Y. Evening Post,
55
AMERICANIZATION: stages in, made clear in
Woods' Americans in Process, 386
Americans in Process: by Robert A. Woods,
299, 386

AMES CASE: inferences drawn from face card

of, 83, 85; face card of, reproduced, 84;
illustration of use of analogies drawn
from, 91; illustrations of mistaken causal
relation suggested by, 92, 93; summary
of, used as basis for criticism of diag-
nostic processes, 352-356, 361

AMSDEN, MRS. H. S., 10

ANALOGY, MISTAKEN: as source of error in
reasoning, 87, 91-92

ANALYSES OF FIRST INTERVIEWS: made by
case workers, 120, 121, 457-465
ANY FAMILY, QUESTIONNAIRE REGARDING: to
precede all other questionnaires, 374,
378-381

APPLICATION, ORIGIN OF: as affecting method
of first interview, 106

APPROACH IN FIRST INTERVIEW: mode of,
quotation from Dr. Adolf Meyer bearing
upon, 115

Aran Islands: by John Synge, 185
ART: experiences of fellow practitioners of
value to practitioner of an, 103
ASSESSORS, CITY: consultations with, by
social agencies, 287

ASSETS FOR RECONSTRUCTION: should be
noted, 157; place of, in diagnostic sum-
mary, 360-361

ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. See Charity Organ-
ization Societies

ASSOCIATED CHARITIES, BOSTON: consulta-
tion with, by users of the confidential
exchange, 308

ASSOCIATION: as an aid to memory, 68
ASSUMPTIONS: of social worker, risks arising
from, 95-96; based on method of proba-
bilities, 97

Atlantic Monthly: anonymous contributor to,
quoted, 334

BANK ACCOUNTS: consultation of, 264
BANKS, FOREIGN: as means of establishing
whereabouts, 261

BAPTISM CERTIFICATES: use of, in establish-
ing age, 256; named in New York's child
labor law, 257

BAPTISM RECORDS: consultation of, in three
cities, 255; as source of name and ad-
dress of child's godparents, 262

BAR MIZVAH CERTIFICATES: as evidence of
age, 257

BARKER, LEWELLYS F., M.D., 366

BEDFORD, CAROLINE L., 10

BEHAVIOR: school evidence as to, 226
BENEFIT SOCIETIES: as one-headed sources,
175; uses of, in social diagnosis, 290
BETTERMENT, INDIVIDUAL AND MASS: inter-
dependence of, 25, 365, 366

BIAS: risks due to, in testimonial evidence,
59. 60; an historian's tests of, summar-
ized, 64; racial or national, 73-75; class,
among peasants, 74; environmental, 75-
76; of self-interest, 76-78; of self-esteem,
79; of employers, 241

BIBLE, FAMILY: as a birth record, 256, 257
BIBLIOGRAPHY: for this volume, plan fol-
lowed in making, II

BINET-SIMON MEASURING SCALE, 34
BIRTH: queries regarding, for a patient pos-

sibly insane, 437; for a child possibly
feeble-minded, 443

BIRTH CERTIFICATES: in New York City,

content of, 256; named in N. Y. child
labor law, 257; foreign, how to obtain,
257

BIRTH RECORDS: failure to consult, in one
city, 164; consultation of, in three cities,
255; present use of, illustrated, 256-257,
259; as means of discovering where-
abouts, 260; dates to be searched in
looking up, 271

BIRTWELL, MARY L., 31, 107, 268, 293, 325,
337

BLANK FORMS: use of, in early stages of in-
vestigation, 127; use made of, by three
medical-social workers, 128-129; of in-
quiry, addressed to dispensary doctors,
criticism of, 208; unsatisfactoriness of,
318-319. See also Application Blanks
BLIND PERSON, QUESTIONNAIRE REGARDING
A, 420-424

BLIND, WORKER FOR THE: letters to priests
and parents by, 331-332

BLINDNESS: mistake of considering fact of,

alone, 420; queries regarding prevention
of, 421

BOARDERS: in immigrant households, com-

plicate study of food problem, 149; in-
fluence of, should be considered in deser-
tion cases, 157. See also Lodgers
BOIES, HENRY M., 285

BOSANQUET, HELEN, 139, 152, 368
BOSTON: influence of Octavia Hill in, 30;

medical-social work in, 36; use of con-
fidential exchange data by agencies in,
308-310

BOSTON ASSOCIATED CHARITIES: consulta-
tion with, by users of confidential ex-
change, 308

BOSTON CHILDRren's Aid SocieTY: interested
in probation, 33

BOSTON MUNICIPAL COURT: separate hear-
ings of children's cases in, 33

BOSTON SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL WORKERS: help
in gathering material for this book ren-
dered by, 10; notes on conferences of
students of, on uses of confidential ex-
change data, 308-310

BOSWORTH, MARION, 88

Bowker's Index to Dates of Current Events, 269
BRANNICK, CATHERINE, M.D., 405
BRANTHWAITE, R. W., 429, 430

BRAUCHER CASE: as illustrating insight
gained from relatives, 188-189; series of
diagnoses in, 356-357

BREED, MARY I., 194, 195

BROOKLYN Daily Eagle: index to, 269
BROOKS, PHILLIPS, IO

BROTHERS: legal responsibility of, for sup-
port, in different states, 195

BUDGET: family, wife authority on, 147, 149;
food, basis for, 150

BURDEN OF PROOF: with regard to unfavor-
able testimony about a client, 59, 61, 62
BURROWS, SARAH F., 282

BUSINESS MEN: letters to, 331

BUSINESS SOURCES: uses of, in social diag-
nosis, 288-290

BYINGTON, MARGARET F., 10, 149, 304, 305.
307, 308

CABOT, RICHARD C., M.D., 35, 49, 208, 212,
214, 218, 347, 375, 376

CANNON, IDA M., 35
CARSTENS, C. C., 251

CASE COMMITTEES: as critics, 348; case
workers' summaries to, 348

CASE HISTORIES: mental attitude essential
to making of valuable, 99

CASE READERS: studies made for this volume
by, 7

CASE SUMMARIES: as an aid in obtaining
medical co-operation, 218

Case Teaching in Medicine: by Richard C.
Cabot, M.D., 347

CASE WORK: clear thinking essential to, 99
CASE WORK AGENCY: point of view of a.
regarding evidence, contrasted with that
of S. P. C. C. and court, 41-43

CASE WORK STUDY: fruitful and unfruitful
methods of, 375-376. See also Social
Case Work

CASE WORKERS. See Social Workers
CAUSAL FACTORS: in a diagnostic summary,
360-361; in case of an inebriate, queries
regarding, 431

CAUSAL RELATION, MISTAKEN: as source of
error in reasoning, 87, 92-93