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

Societies for Organizing Charity; at the time of the study, field secretary of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation. He was superintendent for the...

Sub-Committee VI, the business committee of the Rehabilitation Committee, from its organization November 1, 1906; before that date connected with the Associated Charities of Oak...

When the six separate studies were completed, a perplexing situation was disclosed. The purpose in preparing the survey was to offer a book of ready reference for use on occasio...

fire, together with a description of the structure of the relief organization and the different phases through which it passed. This part serves as a background for the rehabili...

Two of the most important forms of rehabilitation, business and housing, are analyzed in detail in Parts III and IV. These parts illustrate methods, and they also show actual re...

(1) The Disaster, 3. (2) Tentative Organization, 8. (3) Uniting of Relief Forces, 11. (4) Beginnings of Rehabilitation Work, 13. (5) An Interlude, 19. (6) Incorporation of the F...

(1) Introductory, 151. (2) Social Data and Total Grants and Refusals, 152. (3) Principal and Subsidiary Grants, 157. (4) The Re-opening of Cases to make Further Grants, 160. (5)...

(1) The Plan Itself, 171. (2) The Study of Results, 173. (3) The Families and Individuals Aided, 174. (4) Changes in Family and Business Life, 176. (5) Occupations, 183. (6) Hom...

(1) General Cost, 221. (2) Families Occupying the Cottages, 223. (3) Wages and Occupations, 226. (4) Housing Before and After the Fire, 229. (5) Two Cottage Settlements, 234. (6...

(1) List of Members Finance Committee of Relief and Red Cross Funds and its Permanent Committees, 377. (2) General Orders No. 18, 379. (3) Extracts from the Army in the San Fran...

2. Cash contributions for the relief of San Francisco, to June 1, 1909, received by the Finance Committee of Relief and Red Cross Funds, and its successor, The Corporation, and...

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...

64. Expenditures for housing made by the Finance Committee of Relief and Red Cross Funds, by the San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds, a Corporation, and by the United State...

97. Associated Charities cases classified as having lived or not having lived in the burned area, and by number aided, and number refused aid. June 1, 1907, to June 1, 1909 285

114. Conjugal condition of inmates of Ingleside Model Camp, compared with conjugal condition of inmates of all almshouses of the United States in 1903-4 and of the general popul...

1. The Disaster 3 2. Tentative Organization 8 3. Uniting of Relief Forces 11 4. Beginnings of Rehabilitation Work 13 5. An Interlude 19 6. Incorporation of the Funds 25

The total cash donations, $8,921,452.86, given in Table 1, do not include the $2,500,000 appropriated by Congress, which was disbursed in the first two months for food, clothing...

1. Introductory 151 2. Social Data and Total Grants and Refusals 152 3. Principal and Subsidiary Grants 157 4. The Re-opening of Cases to Make Further Grants 160 5. Variations i...

1. The Plan Itself 171 2. The Study of Results 173 3. The Families and Individuals Aided 174 4. Changes in Family and Business Life 176 5. Occupations 183 6. Homogeneity of Gran...

1. General Cost 221 2. Families Occupying the Cottages 223 3. Wages and Occupations 226 4. Housing Before and After the Fire 229 5. Two Cottage Settlements 234 6. Brief Comments...

In Parts I and II frequent mention has been made of the important rehabilitation rôle played by the Associated Charities. In this fifth part of the Relief Survey, measure is tak...

Owing to the general confusion in the city, the emergency character of the relief, and the constant shifting and changing of the homeless population immediately after the earthq...

2. The wisdom of reducing the bread line and the camp population as quickly as possible after the disaster so that the relief resources may be conserved to meet the primary need...

1. The need, in at least the early stages of rehabilitation, of the district system, in order to facilitate application and investigation and to insure prompt committee action u...

That when grants are made for the re-establishment in business of persons of little ability or experience, close supervision of plans and expenditures by agents of the relief co...

(a) With reference to the camp cottages it is too soon to say how successful the experiment will ultimately be of giving cottages for removal to other sites to those who may be...

1. The applications made to an emergency relief organization will not include all who, as a result of the disaster, will eventually be obliged to seek succor. It is demonstrated...

2. One of the tasks of delicate readjustment is to remove from the almshouse the aged men and women who, merely through the rough chance of a great catastrophe, are thrown with...

The above outline of the method of procedure followed by the Committee, while perhaps not adhered to strictly in every case, was, in general, the usual plan adopted and served t...