[111] With Mr. Ratshesky were Mr. John F. Moors, and Major Giddings.
[112] The Public Safety Committee of Massachusetts and the Boston Unit of the American Red Cross.
[113] The scheme as finally decided upon consisted of a small managing committee with sub-committees in control of food, clothing, shelter, fuel, burial, medical relief, transportation, information, finance and rebuilding.
[114] “During the emergency stage of relief the people are dealt with in large groups with little attention to the special needs of individuals ... in the rehabilitation stage the family or the individual becomes the unit of consideration.”—(Bicknell, E. P., “Disaster Relief and its Problems,” National Conference of Charities and Corrections, sess. xxxvi, 1909, p. 12.)
[115] Deacon, J. Byron, Disasters (N. Y., 1918), ch. v, p. 137.
[116] The town of Dartmouth on the Eastern side of Halifax harbor also suffered very seriously in the explosion. It had its own relief organization under the very capable chairmanship of ex-mayor A. C. Johnstone. The nature of the relief work there did not differ essentially from that in Halifax.
[117] Davis, Michael M., Jr., “Medical Social Service in a Disaster,” Survey, vol. xxxix, no. 25 (March 23, 1918), p. 675.
[118] Blois, Ernest H., Report of Superintendent of Neglected and Delinquent Children (Halifax, 1918), p. 110.
[119] Fraser, Sir Frederick, Report of.
[120] The reader may contrast with this the early days of the relief at the Johnstown flood “where two windows were set apart from which clothing and boots were being thrown over the heads of the crowd, and those having the longest arms and the stoutest backs seemed to be getting the most of it”; and where almoners passed through the streets handing “ten dollar bills to everyone whom they met.”