Fifty-three per cent of those burned out, who by June, 1909, had come to the Associated Charities for assistance, first made application for relief needed as a result of the disaster, after the rehabilitation work was done. Many of them had undoubtedly received their share of clothes, had stood in the bread line, and had lived in the camps, but as their names are not on the records of the Rehabilitation Committee they had had, up to the time that they applied to the Associated Charities, no rehabilitation in the accepted sense of the term.
3. SOCIAL CHARACTER OF THE CASES
The social characteristics of these cases are second in importance only to the question of their relation to the disaster.
What do the records show with regard to their nationality, their family relations, their ages, the size of their families, their occupations, and their characteristics in general? What were the disabilities that drove them to ask for help? What proportion of the disabilities from which they suffered can be marked against the rehabilitation methods?
Forty-one different countries, as shown by [Table 98], are represented by the persons who made application in each of the two-year periods, and of whom the place of birth was learned.
Completely devastated. First tents in Washington Square
Partly Rebuilt. Cottages in Washington Square
Telegraph Hill and Washington Square