Excerpt from The Social Case History: Its Construction and Content Substitute or successor must begin to be helpful to a client where the previous visitor left off, and with as little loss of momentum as possible; the visitor who knows the situation in a client's fam ily may not be at hand when some emergency arises; an employee other than the visitor herself, who will often be busy with urgent calls, may have to give a quick summary of a client's history to some inquiring agency; or, in a large society the supervisor must have some compendious J evidence for estimating the quality of work being done. Lastly, when social workers and agencies teem as they do today, the client, his relatives, employers, and so on, must be spared the repeti. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.