3. PRINCIPAL AND SUBSIDIARY GRANTS
The grants made for purposes of rehabilitation have been classified as principal and subsidiary. As was stated on [page 152], the term “principal” has been used to describe the largest grant made to an applicant, “subsidiary” to describe a grant smaller in amount given to the same applicant for a different purpose. It is evident from this definition that the number of principal grants made equalled the total number of applicants who received grants. Subsidiary grants were much fewer in number than principal grants. Principal grants did not necessarily come first in point of time. Indeed, three times out of four they came last, because they followed the satisfying of a lesser emergent need by their greater rehabilitating force. In compiling [Tables 40], [41], and [42], successive grants of the same nature have been considered as constituting one grant.
In [Table 40] principal and subsidiary grants are classified according to the nature of the rehabilitation given.
TABLE 40.—NUMBER OF PRINCIPAL AND SUBSIDIARY GRANTS, BY NATURE OF GRANTS
| Nature of grant | PRINCIPAL GRANTS | SUBSIDIARY GRANTS | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Per cent | Number | Per cent | |
| Household furniture | 9,064 | 44.8 | 918 | 46.8 |
| Business rehabilitation | 4,740 | 23.4 | 176 | 9.0 |
| General relief | 3,635 | 18.0 | 709 | 36.1 |
| Housing | 1,709 | 8.4 | 25 | 1.3 |
| Transportation | 809 | 4.0 | 42 | 2.1 |
| Tools | 284 | 1.4 | 92 | 4.7 |
| Total | 20,241 | 100.0 | 1,962 | 100.0 |
The [next table] shows the amounts disbursed in principal and in subsidiary grants, according to the nature of the rehabilitation given.
TABLE 41.—AMOUNT OF PRINCIPAL AND SUBSIDIARY GRANTS, BY NATURE OF GRANTS
| Nature of grant | PRINCIPAL GRANTS | SUBSIDIARY GRANTS | ALL GRANTS | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount | Per cent | Amount | Per cent | Amount | Per cent | |
| Household furniture | $ 937,641.99 | 32.8 | $ 80,347.98 | 52.9 | $1,017,989.97 | 33.9 |
| Business rehabilitation | 860,934.80 | 30.2 | 11,502.40 | 7.6 | 872,437.20 | 29.0 |
| General relief | 433,342.70 | 15.2 | 53,166.15 | 35.0 | 486,508.85 | 16.2 |
| Housing | 564,986.15 | 19.8 | 2,314.70 | 1.5 | 567,300.85 | 18.9 |
| Transportation | 47,181.07 | 1.7 | 1,735.70 | 1.1 | 48,916.77 | 1.6 |
| Tools | 9,792.35 | .3 | 2,945.85 | 1.9 | 12,738.20 | .4 |
| Total | $2,853,879.06 | 100.0 | $152,012.78 | 100.0 | $3,005,891.84 | 100.0 |
It should be mentioned in connection with these percentages, that kits of tools for mechanics and artisans were distributed by the Los Angeles Tool Fund in addition to the 376 cash grants for tools noted above; also that the amount given for housing as stated in the table does not include the camp cottages[143] given to camp families.