Excerpt from Archives of Pediatrics, Vol. 31: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Diseases of Infants and Children; January to December, 1914

In this work Miss Ida M. Cannon, now head social worker at the Massachusetts General Hospital; has borne a large and, no doubt, a wholesomely satisfying part. Anyone who has heard Miss Cannon speak of the need of social work to supplement and render more efficient the purely medical work of the results which have been accomplished in Boston and of the future toward which social service is striving, cannot but realize the true hu manity and the essential economy of such effort, and seeing her enthusiasm become enthusiastic likewise. That Miss Cannon has been persuaded to put her experience into book form is a matter Of congratulation to all of us, for no one can write with greater authority on the subject, and few books will be per meated with more lofty ideals or a clearer insight into human nature's daily needs than this beautifully written volume of hers.* Physical and social ills go hand in hand, and often it is the social difficulty which must be the first relieved. The tuber culons wage - earner cannot begin his cure until means have been found to take care of his dependent family. A tonic will not raise the hemoglobin index Of a woman who has not enough to care for herself and her child. It is truly absurd, as Miss Cannon says, to 'expect results from the use of a back brace when the patient, suffering from pernicious anemia, is starving herself to pay for it; nor is it economy for an institution to distribute $250 over a period of two years in medicine and treatment upon a family afflicted with scabies without getting any result when a week Of following up by a social worker serves to effect a cure in eleven individuals.

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