ABSTRACT
Mildred Pratt's study analyzes the growth and the organization of social welfare institutions in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Kenya, and Tanzania from the British Colonial era through independence. Services are generally provided free of charge and include the following: subsidies or loans; financial assistance or cash supplementary benefits; benefits in kind such as medical care, drugs, goods; social centers; social work services, holiday colonies; and low-cost housing. Rodgers develops a case study for each of the four countries she discusses, relating social needs, resources, and forms of social administration to social, demographic, economic and political factors. Differences in the way social services are delivered frequently spring from several major difficulties faced almost universally by administrative structures and staffing patterns in social service sub-cultures. Many organizational and administrative issues in personal social services appear to be generic to administration in almost all human undertakings.
