Facts, necessary in relief, 156-157; in treatment, 186-188. Family, the, head of, 17-19, 44-57; essential elements of, 45-46; breaking up, 54-57; over-visiting, 184; brief biography of heads of, 188. Family budgets, 125. Financial history of family, facts in, 188. Fluctuating work, 35. Food, buying and preparing, 65-67; adulteration of, 113. Forms of relief, 160-162. Fraternal societies, 122-123; as a source of relief, 150. Fresh air charities, 78-79. Fresh air, prejudice against, 97-98. Friendly visiting, and social service, 5; need of, 13; introduction to, 13; qualifications for, 14; and economic problems, 29; and employment, 36-41; men and women in, 41-43; and household economy, 65-69; and school-teachers, 79; and home libraries, 87; and the children, 91-93; and sanitation, 97-101; and sickness, 101-106; and thrift, 111; and savings, 124; and chattel mortgages, 116; and recreations, 129; and relief, 142-145, 183; and relief agencies, 164-165; and churches, 177-178; what it is not, 180; results of, 181; principles of, 182-195; patience in, 182-183; number of families in, 182; by correspondence, 184-185; mutual relations in, 185; and charity organization societies, 187-189; and others charitably interested, 192; best done alone, 193; distinguished from district visiting, 193-194; illustrations of continuous, 197-215. Fuel, 68-69; saving for, 134. Funerals, 119-121. Games, 130-131. Godkin, E. L., 21. Gymnasiums, 132. Health, 95-106; saving at expense of, 110. Hill, Miss Octavia, 35, 128, 181. Home, the, the unit of society, 44; relief should be given in, 145-146. Home libraries, 86-87, 197-198. Hospital care, 101; prejudice against, 101-103. Howells, W. D., 70. Humor, sense of, necessary in charity, 129. Ignorance of English as a cause of 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.