Adventures in Social Welfare, Being Reminiscences of Things, Thoughts, and Folks During Forty Years of Social Work

Johnson was a pioneer social worker in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. His "Notice" in this self-published book reads, "This book is not copyrighted. If anyone thinks my message, or any part of it, is worth repeating, he may reprint it with my good will." The writing is lively and fascinating in disclosing the conditions of social work a century Describing a mental institution of the "In one of the Northern counties (of Indiana)... a man was kept in a cage in an outhouse. It was just long enough for him to lie in, and just high enough for him to stand. He had been in it three years without a bath or change of clothing.... The present superintendent had found him in the cage when he took possession two years earlier, and blamed it on his predecessor. "