Excerpt from Social Conditions in Oxford

A Number of towns have now been provided with an account of their own "social conditions", this is an attempt, in no way original, to do the same for Oxford.

I am indebted for assistance in writing it to many persons with much more experience and knowledge of its subject-matter than myself. My thanks are due to Mrs. H. A. L. Fisher and Dr. A. J. Carlyle for much help and advice, to Professor Edgeworth for reading most of the manuscript, to the Town Clerk for permission to consult some of the City MS. Records, and to the following, among others, for information or criticism: Mr. Belcham, Mr. G. A. Grant, Councillor Miss Merivale, Mr. Neve, Mr. Wetherill, and the Secretaries of the Trades Council and of the Societies of Bookbinders, Bricklayers, Carpenters, Plasterers, Shoemakers, Stonemasons, and Typographers. None of the above are, however, responsible for any errors in the work, or for the few conclusions which I have attempted to draw.

Portions of two chapters have appeared in the Economic Review and the Charity Organisation Review and are reproduced by kind permission of the respective editors.

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