A Survey of Food Habits of Twenty Negro Families of the Community of La Grange, Texas 1934-1935

The purpose of this study Is to learn a few facts about the community; to examine the records if there be any, and to make a survey of the community. The word survey means gathering and systematizing a great mass of information concerning the living habits of the people of this community, and to make a study of all the related factors that make for or against its happiness and proper prosperity. It Includes such topics as the extent of the general and school population, the sanitary conditions in the individual homes and the district, the prevailing methods of home and farm management, the facilities for inter-communication-roads, telephones, mall service, and the like—the ownership of land, the extent of tenant housing. In short, all the facts that have vital bearing upon the foods and community life