f unemployment, 39.
Imposture, 168-170.
Improvident poor, 112.
Inadequate relief, 157-159, 173.
Incapacity as a cause of unemployment, 34.
Incurables, 104-105.
Indiscriminate giving, 4, 6; by the poor, 25-27; weakens
neighborhood ties, 27; weakens family ties, 45-47; to
children, 88-89; materialism of, 141; results of, 157, 204-205.
Individual service, and social service, 5-6; dangers of, 7.
Industrial insurance, 120-121.
Influence, power of personal, 92-93; patience in gaining, 182-183;
of good neighbors, 197, 215-218.
Instalment purchases, 24, 113-115.
Institutional care, 162; of children, 90-91; for chronic cases, 191.
Insurance, industrial, 120-121.
Intemperance, 7, 48-49, 54, 57-63; recreations as a cure of, 132-133.
Interference with individual rights, 12.
Interim relief, 154.
Invalids, chronic, 103-104; migration of, 105-106.
Investigation, 155-157, 186-189; caution concerning inquiries of
landlords and employers, 189.

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 3.
Juvenile offenders, 85, 88-89.

Kelley, Mrs. Florence, 82.
Kindergartens, 79; first supported by churches, 175-176.
Krohn, Professor William O., 83.

Landlords who sub-let, 24; as creditors, 162; caution concerning
inquiries of, 189.
Laws for protection of children, 91.
Lectures, free, 137.
Legal extortions, 23.
Libraries, free, 133.
Loan companies, 115-118; philanthropic, 117; building and, 123.
Loan exhibitions, 133-135.
Loans, 161.
Loch, C. S., 125.
Lowell, Mrs. Josephine Shaw, 54, 73, 118, 157-159.

Man of the family, often overlooked, 17; should apply for relief, 145.
Manual training, 92.
Married vagabonds, 47-57, 93, 146, 158, 164, 202-215.
Mason, Miss, 90.
Materialism of the charitable, 141, 171.
Medical service, cheap grade of, 100.
Men as friendly visitors, 41.
Migration of invalids, 105.
Money, relief in, 161.
Mothers' meetings, 74-75.
Municipal reform, 6, 21.
Music, 135-137.

Negro prejudice against hospitals, 102-103.
Neighborhood standard, and relief-giving, 163-164; and plans
for permanent improvement, 191.
Neighbors, 24-25, 27; as a source of relief, 150; effects of relief
upon, 163, 190; influence of good, 215-218.
Newspaper appeals for individual cases of need, 147, 206.
Non-support laws, 53.
Novels, poverty in, 2; sociological, 3.

Odd jobs, 36.
Open spaces, 96.
Outdoor relief, public, 151-152.