EUGENICS RECORD OFFICE. 



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ence of the Eugenics Record Office has been worked out and described 

 in detail in a mimeographed pamphlet of 23 pages. These instructions 

 provide for the three tj^Des of eugenical records — the archives, the 

 library, and the correspondence files. The new system is based upon 

 the experience of the past decade in classifying and indexing eugenical 

 material. The Dewey Decimal System is incorporated into the 

 library scheme. The plan for classifjdng the archives is a new one in 

 which the different types of records are distributed among 19 files, 

 each designated by a distinctive letter. The material within each 

 file is classified according to the trait-book (Bulletin No. 6 of the 

 Eugenics Record Office). The system of classifying correspondence 

 is one devised for the particular needs of the office and, Uke the Dewey 

 Decimal System for classifying books and the subject decimal classi- 

 fication of the War Department correspondence file, is an indefinitely 

 expansible decimal scheme. It provides also for ample cross-references. 

 Additions to archives. — The care of the archives has remained in the 

 hands of Miss Louise A. Nelson. She furnishes this summary of 

 material added to the archives during the year, September 1, 1918, to 

 September 1, 1919: 



Index cards 74, 149 



Persons-index 240 



Manuscript material: 

 Field reports: 



Pages of description ... 3 , 648 



Sheets of pedigrees .... 523 



Indix-iduals charted 17, 310 



Records of family traits 174 



Family distribution of personal traits. . 3 



Additional individual analysis cards. . . 64 



Biographies 53 



Genealogies 76 



Genealogical pamphlets 3 



Town histories 30 



Lists of genealogies 2 



This report brings the total number of index cards reported up to 

 684,064. Since each card has space for 40 entries (though in most 

 cases there are only 1 or 2 entries), it is certain that the entries must be 

 much over 1,000,000 and probably nearly 2,000,000. Of special fi.eld 

 workers' reports we have now 56,825 pages. Of the record of family 

 traits there are on file approximately 3,000. 



TRAINING COURSE. 



The 1919 training course for field-workers in eugenics was in session 

 from July 2 to August 12. There were 16 students in the course, thus 

 bringing the total number who have been trained by this office for 

 field-workers up to 192. The demand for competent field-investi- 

 gators is greater than the supply. 



JOINT-BASIS FIELD-WORKERS. 



An important element of the work of the office is the introduction 

 of eugenical field-studies as a part of the regular work of custodial 

 institutions for the several types of the socially inadequate. This 

 has been worked out on the joint-basis plan, whereby the Eugenics 

 Record Office trains the worker and pays her salary and the collabor- 

 ating institution provides the maintenance and traveling-expense 

 money. Two new joint-basis field-workers have been assigned for 



