Health is believed to have suffered considerably in the Bronx. Relief has had a degrading, placid effect. Clients visited in the Bronx were obviously in need of clothing and household incidentals. Clothing is particularly acute. The bulk of apartments are fairly modern and have most conveniences.
Food is the least of the worries.
But with landlords, the rent situation is bad. Many relief clients still have a sense of humor. Another investigator told of a friend who was driven by curiosity to go through the files of the New York Daily News and add up the unemployed it had put to work through front page headlines. The answer was 56,000,000 people since Roosevelt went into office. In the Jewish sections, both in the Bronx and lower east side, complaints are bitter against the surplus food division.