TABLE 43.—APPLICATIONS FOR RELIEF PASSED UPON BY SUB-COMMITTEES AND BY THE REHABILITATION COMMITTEE, WITHOUT ACTION BY A SUB-COMMITTEE, IN THE PERIOD FROM NOVEMBER 1, 1906, TO APRIL 1, 1907, BY NATURE OF THE APPLICATION[146]
| Nature of applications for relief | Appli- cations passed upon | Appli- cations passed upon by sub- commit- tees | APPLICATIONS PASSED UPON BY THE REHABILITATION COMMITTEE WITHOUT ACTION BYA SUB-COMMITTEE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Per cent of all appli- cations | |||
| Household furniture | 5,647 | 5,099 | 548 | 9.7 |
| Business rehabilitation | 3,414 | 3,095 | 319 | 9.3 |
| General relief | 2,873 | 2,504 | 369 | 12.8 |
| Housing | 1,788 | 1,690 | 98 | 5.5 |
| Transportation | 144 | 93 | 51 | 35.4 |
| Tools for mechanics and artisans | 48 | 31 | 17 | 35.4 |
| Total | 13,914 | 12,512 | 1,402 | 10.1 |
[146] Of the 13,970 cases passed upon in the period to which this table relates, 56 could not be classified according to the plan adopted.
4. THE RE-OPENING OF CASES TO MAKE FURTHER GRANTS
It was the aim of the Rehabilitation Committee to make final disposition of each application for a specific object by means of a single grant. This it succeeded in doing in the cases of 17,560 (86.8 per cent) of all applicants aided. Before the other 2,681 applications were finally disposed of, 5,777 grants had been made, usually at the rate of two grants to a case. Three grants were rarely made, although there were exceptional cases of applicants who received three or four different kinds of aid in five or six separate grants.
[Table 44] shows the extent to which re-opening occurred.[147]
[147] In addition to cases analyzed above and in the table, 904 cases which were at first refused were afterwards re-opened to receive a grant.
TABLE 44.—NUMBER OF RE-OPENED CASES BY NATURE OF FIRST GRANT
| Nature of first grant | Total number of cases | RE-OPENED CASES | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Per cent of all cases | ||
| Household furniture | 9,552 | 1,299 | 13.6 |
| Business rehabilitation | 4,524 | 540 | 11.9 |
| General relief | 3,787 | 657 | 17.3 |
| Housing | 1,212 | 62 | 5.1 |
| Transportation | 799 | 37 | 4.6 |
| Tools for mechanics and artisans | 367 | 86 | 23.4 |
| Total | 20,241 | 2,681 | 13.2 |
The form of aid through which the greatest proportion of cases was disposed of by a single grant was transportation. Of these but 4.6 per cent were ever re-opened.