Excerpt from Report of the Special Commission on Social Insurance: February 1917 Upon the request of the Commission that it be authorized to attend the National Conference on Social Insurance at Washington on December 7, 8 and 9, the Council authorized and selected three members of the Commission to attend the conference on behalf of the Commission. The State Depart ment of Health and the Bureau of Statistics have co - operated with this Commission as directed by the Resolve. The Com mission takes this occasion to acknowledge the valuable aid given by each department as far as possible within its limited time, and the courtesy with which the services of these depart ments have been placed at its disposal. The Commission has also held thirty-two executive sessions besides numerous conferences with individuals who had special knowledge of the subjects before it. There have been in addi tion many meetings of subcommittees, which were appointed. 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.