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RELIEF AND NON-RELIEF CASES
1. GENERAL ANALYSIS
In analyzing the material relating to the 1,156 persons known to have been in Ingleside Model Camp at some time, and included in this study, it must be remembered that practically all had already received relief in the shape of food, clothing, and shelter at other camps or in hospitals during the six months succeeding the fire. The word “relief” will be used hereafter to refer to specific aid refused or given outside of Ingleside.
After the primal necessities, food, clothing, and shelter have been provided, the factor of highest importance in determining what further relief shall be given is the family relation. With respect to family relationship, the inmates of Ingleside have been classified in the following table:
TABLE 118.—FAMILY RELATIONS OF INMATES OF INGLESIDE MODEL CAMP
| Family relation | PERSONS IN EACH CLASS | |
|---|---|---|
| Number | Per cent | |
| Single and widowed men and women. | 868 | 75.1 |
| Aged married couples, or aged mothers, each with an adult son or daughter | 93 | 8.0 |
| Mothers with young children | 28 | 2.4 |
| Transients, for whom only slight data, or no data at all, are available | 167 | 14.5 |
| Total | 1,156 | 100.0 |
In this table the divorced, deserted, and separated persons are included among the single and widowed because they required the same treatment.
2. APPLICANTS AND NON-APPLICANTS FOR RELIEF AND REHABILITATION
The transients at Ingleside who were single men and women merely waiting to hear from friends or of possible jobs, and a few families temporarily stranded, are for lack of full information omitted from the discussion that follows. The 28 mothers with young children, most of whom were at the camp a short time, have also been omitted because they were not representative of the classes for which Ingleside was maintained, and furthermore because the Associated Charities assumed responsibility for their treatment.
The 961 persons remaining fall into two general classes: families of aged adults, and detached people of both sexes. Since the problem of an old mother with an adult son or daughter is almost identical with that of an old married couple, they are studied together. These two general classes have been rearranged in the following table according as they applied or did not apply for relief to the Corporation before April 1, 1907, or to the Associated Charities[270] through which agency applications for relief on the part of Ingleside inmates were made after that date.