Abstract
Dr Harold Hart Mann's concise social survey of the village of Ridgmount in Bedfordshire, carried out in 1903, was the first attempt to apply the methods and concepts pioneered by B. Seebohm Rowntree to a rural community. Mann was born in 1872 and educated in Yorkshire. A natural scientist, he was a graduate in chemistry from the Pasteur Institute in Paris, and referred to social research as 'merely his hobby'. Although Rowntree himself never attempted to investigate a rural community in the same way, Mann's survey was offered to the editors of the Sociological Papers through his 'intermediacy'. He reported that a total of 27.84% of the population of York lived in poverty, of which 9.91% was in primary and 17.93% in secondary poverty.
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