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which was fully borne out by the subsequent work of the survey. The practicable course appeared to be to lay out an itinerary with due regard to geography and climate in such a way that most of the larger and hence more important jurisdictions could be visited by most of the survey staff, and insofar as practicable to send one or two members of the party on brief inspectional trips to smaller jurisdictions within reach from the main itinerary. Thus, although the staff as a whole had a more or less common itinerary, there were many individual departures from it. The departures were to a considerable extent governed by the relative importance of different phases of the problem in various sections. The specialist in the field of health modified the general itinerary to enable him to see most of the important health activities of the Service, Likewise, the specialist on education arranged to see most of the larger government schools. The specialist in agriculture had to make many departures from the general itinerary because of weather conditions. The legal specialist found relatively less to do in the field and more to do in Washington than did the others and governed his time accordingly.
The specialist studying the condition of migrated Indians worked generally apart from the rest of the staff. She secured such leads as were available from Indian schools and reservations and went to a number of centers where Indians were known to live. She visited their homes and secured case histories and also visited their places of employment, schools their children attended, and social and civic agencies which touched their lives.
What was covered is summarized in the following tabular statement, which lists the jurisdictions in the stub and gives the names of the members of the survey staff in the heading. The numeral one under the name of a staff member and opposite the name of a jurisdiction shows that the staff member named visited the jurisdiction indicated. The first column shows the population of the jurisdiction and the second column the total number of members of the staff who visited the jurisdiction. A statement of the jurisdictions not visited follows the table.