San Francisco Relief Survey; the organization and methods of relief used after the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906

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Family type		Families for which informa- tion as to age of bread- winner is available	FAMILIES WITH BREADWINNER 40 YEARS OF AGE OR OVER
			Number	Per cent of all families
Married couples with children
Before fire		372	83	22.3
After fire		2,012	946	47.0
Married couples without children
Before fire		84	26	31.0
After fire		522	293	56.1
Widows and deserted women with children
Before fire		135	44	32.6
After fire		1,302	864	66.4
Widowers and deserted men with children
Before fire		34	17	50.0
After fire		164	110	67.1
Other family types
Before fire		36	5	13.9
After fire		204	65	31.9
Total	Before fire	661	175	26.5
	After fire	4,204	2,278	54.2

[235] Data are not available as to age of the principal breadwinner and family type for 889 of the 1,550 families of persons applying for relief before the fire, and for 1,747 of the 5,951 families applying for relief after the fire.

Largely rebuilt. Washington Square restored to park uses

Telegraph Hill and Washington Square

The preponderance of applicants past forty in the second period is not surprising. Given a prosperous community and care in dispensing aid in time of disaster it was to be expected that those approaching middle age would be the ones to apply for and to receive aid.

It is interesting to note whether the strain due to the conditions following the disaster was felt more by the native or by the foreign born married groups.

TABLE 102.—AGE OF PRINCIPAL BREADWINNER IN FAMILIES THAT HAD BEEN BURNED OUT APPLYING FOR RELIEF FROM ASSOCIATED CHARITIES, BY NATIVITY AND REHABILITATION RECORD. JUNE 1, 1907-JUNE 1, 1909[236]

Nativity and rehabilitation record	Families burned out for which information asto age of breadwinner is available	FAMILIES BURNED OUT WITH BREADWINNER 40 YEARS OF AGE OR OVER
		Number	Per cent
Native born
With rehabilitation record	558	322	57.7
Without rehabilitation record	473	226	47.8
Total	1,031	548	53.2
Foreign born
With rehabilitation record	966	666	68.9
Without rehabilitation record	1,032	583	56.5
Total	1,998	1,249	62.5
All cases with rehabilitation record	1,524	988	64.8
All cases without rehabilitation record	1,505	809	53.8
Grand total	3,029	1,797	59.3

[236] Data are not available as to age of the principal breadwinner, nativity, and rehabilitation record for 967 of the 3,996 burned out families applying for relief after the fire.