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The cases “closed without action,” about 9 per cent of the whole, include applications from other members of families assisted, from persons later cared for in Ingleside Camp,[136] and from persons living in camp with no definite plans, who later were granted cottages by the Department of Camps and Warehouses and made no further application for rehabilitation.

[136] See [Part VI], [page 319] ff., for description of the work done at Ingleside.

TABLE 33.—DISPOSAL OF APPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION, BY NATURE OF APPLICATION [137]

Nature of application	Cases in which aid was allowed	Cases in which aid was refused	Cancel- ations	Requi- sitions	Total
Household furniture	9,064	1,274	43	2	10,383
Business rehabilitation	4,740	547	13	12	5,312
General relief	3,635	581	68	12	4,296
Housing	1,709	337	25	...	2,071
Transportation	809	...	39	173	1,021
Tools for mechanics and artisans	284	170	19	...	473
Total	20,241	2,909	207	199	23,556
Per cent	86.0	12.3	.9	.8	100.0

[137] The data relative to the nature of the applications are available only for grants, refusals, cancelations, and requisitions.

TABLE 34.—APPLICANTS FOR REHABILITATION, BY AGE, AND BY NATURE AND DISPOSAL OF APPLICATION [138]

Nature and disposal of application	APPLICANTS WHOSE AGES WERE AS SPECIFIED				Total
Nature and disposal of application	Under 25 years	25 years and under 50 years	50 years and over	Not stated	Total
Household furniture
Grants	320	5,496	2,923	325	9,064
Refusals	66	821	354	33	1,274
Business rehabilitation
Grants	104	2,532	1,726	378	4,740
Refusals	28	323	161	35	547
General relief
Grants	197	1,470	1,431	537	3,635
Refusals	32	284	190	75	581
Housing
Grants	47	1,027	426	209	1,709
Refusals	10	181	97	49	337
Transportation
Grants	73	403	229	104	809
Tools
Grants	33	137	92	22	284
Refusals	20	102	28	20	170
Total grants	774	11,065	6,827	1,575	20,241
Total refusals	156	1,711	830	212	2,909
Grand total	930	12,776	7,657	1,787	23,150
Per cent of refusals	16.8	13.4	10.8	11.9	12.6

[138] The figures of this table relate only to applicants for money grants.

The “applications referred elsewhere” include those referred to other agencies, such as the Physicians’ Fund.[139] The fact that only between 1 and 2 per cent of the total applications were so referred shows that the ordinary relief work of the city had to be carried by the Corporation.

[139] For mention of separate funds not administered by the Rehabilitation Committee, see [Appendix I], [p. 415].