ABSTRACT
London, in the industrial north, or in a small village, only a minority, less than a third, of the people with whom investigators came into contact, were found to be giving any sort of fairly regular voluntary help to people outside their own families. Rather less than half of these were doing so as private individuals; the remainder in connection with some type of organisation. People who preferred to give help as private persons were almost all of them
. over forty years of age; though apart from this there was no appreciable sex or age difference in attitudes.
