Excerpt from Tuberculosis Families in Their Homes: A Study
The present study was begun in 1913, and continued intermittently over a period of two years. The length of time required for its completion and its final presentation has been due to two causes: first, that the study was carried on simultaneously with the regular routine work of the Executive Office of the Association, so that it was not possible to give full and undivided attention to it; second, to the unavoidable delay resulting from the necessity of submitting it for final approval to the various workers more or less directly interested in it, either through its conduct or because of their association with the agencies caring for the families included in the study.
It is unfortunate that the general impression left by the study as a whole is more or less pessimistic. Part II of the report deals with avowedly "difficult families" more or less unhelpable from the outset. Success could hardly be expected to follow in the wake of the most expert social and medical care, all things considered. It is only fair to remind the reader that successful results were obtained by social and medical agencies with other helpable families under their care during the same period of time.
Unquestionably the technique of both medical and social workers is improving from year to year, but the problem of the apparently unhelpable family still remains unsolved. Whether private agencies will ever be able to handle these families effectively, or whether their care should be put directly up to the public authorities, is a question that should receive more careful consideration than it has in the past.
The report has been criticised as lacking in constructive suggestions for the care of tuberculosis families generally.
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