1917 Publications

Report on the Procedure of the Treasurer's Office of Wayne County
Report 13 ( October 1917 ) 23 pages

Report on the Ausit of the Transactions of the Board of Education
Report 12 ( September 1917 ) 58 pages

Report on Centralized Purchasing of the Board of Education
Report 11 ( June 1917 ) 30 pages

Analysis of the Budget Requests of the Board of Education for 1917-1918
Report 10 ( March 1917 ) 38 pages

Report on Street Cleaning and Refuse Collection, Department of Public Works, City of Detroit
Report 9 ( February 1917 ) 94 pages

This report recommended a number of changes for the young city that was rapidly increasing in size and commerce. Recommendations dealt with organization for the bureau; civil service practices to avoid patronage; and appropriation, payroll and record reform to provide better accountability. Operational reforms were offered for street cleaning, including: the street flushing, machine sweepers, pavement sprinkling, hand sweeping ("white wing" patrol, and snow work. Other operations reforms dealt with collection of refuse, including: providing better definitions of rubbish to allow separation, rerouting collectors, and greater incorporation of the new automobile trucks into the operations. The report implored Detroiters to take greater care to clean up after themselves or the work of the city sanitation forces could never keep up.

Report on Maintenance of School Property, City of Detroit
Report 8 ( February 1917 ) 32 pages

A Year of Municipal Progress
--- ( January 1917 ) pages

The Citizen and the City Government
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Report on Organization and Administration of the Engineering and Janitorial Service of the Board of Education, City of Detroit
Report 7 ( January 1917 ) 75 pages

Report on Budget Procedure Board of Education, City of Detroit
Report 6 ( January 1917 ) 26 pages

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