Year: 1976
Summary: Describes how various Ontario municipalities handle their animal control responsibilities. The objectives, scope of services, financial costs and results of different programs are identified.
Year: 1936
Summary: Discusses the importance of leaving elementary and secondary education under the same roof.
Year: 1940
Summary: An open letter to the citizens of Toronto, highlighting the need for better snow removal - including coordinating snow removal under one department, improving snow removal equipment, and keeping the snow removal budget consistent from year to year.
Year: 1924
Summary: In this publication, the Bureau objects to the city's plan to enter the business of gasoline, milk and coal selling, claiming that the city has not proven to efficiently and competitively supply goods and the cost of expanding the city's activities.
Year: 1980
Summary: Reviews the history of individual user charges for municipal services, and outlines the political and social reasons for their limited use.
Year: 1946
Summary: Newsletter discussing summer recreation, general spending and taxation and suggesting two-year staggered term in city council instead of annual elections.
Year: 1973
Summary: The education system is trying to address too many problems at once and therefore is not accomplishing any of the hoped for changes.
Year: 1920
Summary: A survey of "educational waste" - the strain on school social and financial resources attributed to children with intellectual disabilities, children who start school at a later age, and children who do not complete their education
Year: 1916
Summary: Outlines expenditure on various municipal services; encouraging voter turnout based on citizens' stakes in key areas.
Year: 1921
Summary: Presents hospital accommodations statistics of other cities (e.g. Kingston, Ottawa); general hospital use should be limited to acute cases, and separate facilities should be built for chronic and convalescent treatment.
Summary: A survey of the physical conditions of Toronto schools and an account of the conditions of school facilities and supplies. The Bureau of Municipal Research, with the participation of the Board of Education make suggestions for future school sites, and recommend modernizing and fireproofing existing schools.
Summary: Interim report of the Toronto school survey calling for a reorganization and centralization of school supply purchases and stores
Year: 1914
Summary: Examines expenditure on Education in Toronto, with relevant recommendations and their implications.
Summary: Suggests 25 Next Steps for Toronto's Fire Department, including: training, rules governing appointments and promotions, budget estimates, inventories, and permanent record-keeping.
Year: 1975
Summary: Assesses the quality of Metro Toronto's fire departments to determine whether amalgamation would be the most effective way to provide the best level of service.
Year: 1919
Summary: Discussion of need for centralized fire / fire and police department and previous recommendations for increasing fire safety efficiency. Suggests amalgamation of fire and police department. Details Bureau suggestions made for improvements to the fire department, and which of these suggestions have been implemented.
Year: 1962
Summary: Discusses whether Metro should make capital grants for hospital construction, or the province accept greater responsibility for coordinating and financing hospital construction.
Summary: Highlights the issue of "feeble-mindedness" and the burden the "feeble-minded" places on taxpayers. Outlines the agenda and exhibits that will be on display during the National Welfare Exhibition on the subject of feeble-mindedness - which includes a play about the life of a young offender. Pamphlet also includes a tear-away petition addressed to the Prime Minister of Canada and provincial premiers urging these officials to consider the establishment of farm colonies to house and segregate the feeble-minded.
Summary: This document outlines the fact that Toronto has a separate health department for schools that employs the same kind of experts as the general health department and has many overlapping responsibilities. Consolidation of these two separate boards of health is proposed.
Summary: Survey of the Oro Township school system as an example of how the consolidation of the school system into larger units has affected education in the six years since it took place.
Summary: Explores the costs of hospital administration. The relation between hospitals, municipalities, and the province needs to ensure adequate service, while avoiding unnecessary costs.
Year: 1971
Summary: Discussion of division of responsibilities regarding education and citizen's involvement in decision-making.
Summary: Statistics on education expenditures in Toronto; this bulletin argues economy with efficiency is essential in the public education department.
Year: 1964
Summary: Draws attention to important issues in the 1964 election.
Year: 1958
Summary: Analysis of function and challenges of fire departments in the Toronto area.
Summary: News Brief about mill rates; social services provision - effects of demography and needed reform in order to improve efficiency.
Summary: History and survey of the York Street School, including a detailed account of school supplies, the school building, principal, teachers and students (kindergarten through grade 3)
Year: 1915
Summary: Encourages citizens to vote to determine how their tax dollars are spent. Charts city services vs. cost per family in dollars and days of work.
Summary: Attack on children with special needs and the fact that public education is wasted on them and on the need to repeat school years.
Summary: Fire inspections of six Toronto theatres were conducted, and three were found to be in dangerous condition. A Fire Prevention Commission should be created to begin a campaign of fire safety education.