Charities review, Vol. 10 No. 09

              the volume x charities review november 1900 number 9 with no purpose to waste places identify general disorgan in charity jzation of private char ity with the small towns of ohio or to signalize kansas as a state in which the public county charities are peculiarly inefficient we have availed ourselves of two in vestigations recently made in these states to present in this number a study which may be taken as typical of the general condition of rural charity administration throughout the country the one investigation was that made by mr w l a johnson the commissioner of labor of kansas into the heretofore un explored and unreported wilds of county charity administration in that state the other was one made for the recent ohio conference of charities and correction by mr edward a fay of the dayton associated chari ties acting as chairman of the com mittee on associated charities into the condition of private outdoor re lief societies in the small cities of ohio both investigations dealing with people and institutions unac customed to exact reports of work done must be studied negatively they are significant not for the 353 things they say but for the things perforce left out — methods about which no information could be ob tained because correspondents had never had any methods prevention of pauperism because societies had been busy with the stopping of to day's hunger financial checks and supervision because county officials had rarely heard of such things ; safe guards insuring proper care and treatment of almshouse inmates be cause the superintendent's instruc tions relate rather to taking good care of the hogs and the fences ... . . the bureau of tenement chicago lodg ing-house house inspection of the inspection illinois state board of health is completing an inspection of the lodging-houses of chicago of which there are nearly 800 listed the inspection would seem to show that the condition of the lodging houses in chicago has improved con siderably all the triple-deck bunk dormitories which were common several years ago have been closed the only traces which remain of these are the double-deck bunks in the lodging-houses of the salvation army and the volunteers of america which it is stated are tolerated by