| Amount of grant | APPLICANTS RECEIVING GRANTS OF EACH SPECIFIED AMOUNT | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Per cent | ||
| Under $50 | 82 | 4.4 | |
| $50 and under $100 | 420 | 22.3 | |
| $100 and under $150 | 437 | 23.2 | |
| $150 and under $200 | 293 | 15.6 | |
| $200 and over | 517 | 27.5 | |
| None | 131 | [239] | 7.0 |
| Total | 1,880 | 100.0 | |
[239] Of the 131 applicants who received no money grant from the Rehabilitation Committee, 19 received relief other than money.
There is evidence that 1768[240] persons aided by one group of rehabilitation workers reapplied later to another group.[241] The question that arises is, Why?[242] In reading the records of cases, reapplication cannot be attributed to any one cause. For example, a group of about 60 lodging-house keepers, the majority of whom had been given over $200 with which to establish rooming houses, had to apply to the Associated Charities for aid in untangling their subsequent business difficulties. In a few instances the first grant served as a spur to ask for more; in other instances the amount given was insufficient to accomplish what was intended; in still other instances, failure of health, inability to secure lodgers, rise of rentals, the bank flurry, the unemployment crises, each played a part in inducing a miscarriage in the plan.
[240] From the 1,880 noted in the table have been deducted the 112 applicants to whom the aid given was neither in money nor in kind.
[241] It should be borne in mind that persons who reapplied were in many cases making their reapplication to the same individuals who had extended treatment in the first instance.
[242] [Part II], [p. 127] ff., should be read in connection with this discussion.
2. EMERGENT RELIEF
The relief given by the Associated Charities from June, 1907, to June, 1909, can be divided from the point of view of material service rendered into three principal types of aid:
1. Moving camp cottages to permanent locations.
2. Giving aid.