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Mrs. Helen Probst Abbott, President of the Women's City Club, 

 kindly volunteered to organize the members of a large number of the 

 women's organizations of the City of Rochester, with the object of secur- 

 ing the services of voluntary workers who would carry out the details of 

 this inquiry. In accordance with this plan, the members of the following 

 organizations were invited to meet at the University of Rochester : 



Women's City Club 

 Industrial Nurses 

 Council Jewish Women 

 Sisterhood Berith Kodesh 

 Public Health Nurses' Association 

 Tuberculosis Society of Monroe County 

 i Door of Hope 



United Jewish Charities 



Business Women's Club 



Women's Union 



Syracuse Alumni Association 



Home Service Red Cross 



Social Workers' Club 



W. C. T. U. 



Temple Beth El Club 



Lake Avenue Baptist Women's Society 



Scottish Women's Club 



Theosophical Society 



Osteopathic Society 



Nineteenth Ward Civic Club 



J. Y. M. A. Auxiliary 



Social Welfare League 



Women's Alliance, Unitarian Chapter 



College Women's Club 



Principals' and Superintendents' Club 



Sisterhood of Beth El 



Two such meetings were held and as a result over 150 volunteer 

 workers were organized. Dr. John H. Murlin, Professor of Vital Eco- 

 nomics in the University of Rochester, kindly volunteered to act as super- 

 visor of the investigation. He prepared a form of questionnaire which 

 was printed for the use of the investigators and gave personal instructions 

 to each investigator as to its use. 



The geography of the City of Rochester and the distribution of its 

 population was very carefully gone over and the city was divided into 

 districts to which a sufficient number of investigators were assigned, to 

 include in the investigation a proper representation of every part of the 

 city and of every class of inhabitants. 



The report blanks, as fast as they were completed, were delivered to 

 the office of Dr. Murlin, and with the assistance of the office staff of the 



