Evening star., 1932-09-26
RELIEF EXPENSES
Of CAPITAL MOUNT
1O7 PCT. IN YEAR
July Total Is $67,461, Com
pared With S32,576 for
Same Month of 1881.
$21,76o,328 FIGURE
OF 125 CITIES IN U. S.
976 Agencies Report Increase of 81
Per Cent for July Over
Previous Period.

Relief expenditures in the District
have increased !07 per cent during the
last IL months, the Children's Bureau
of the Labor Department said today,
following a survey of the relief work
here as conducted by IL agencies.
A total of S57,461 was expended for
relief here druing last July, the latest
month statistics are available, in COM
parison with $32,576 expended during
the same month last year, and $3,262,
or per cent more than was paid out
during June, 1882, the bureau reported.
Relief expenditures in l25 cities dur
ing July were also reported by the
bureau. They totaled S2l ,760,238. a
decline of per cent from the June
total, but an increase of 81 per cent
over July, 1881.
Reports From 976 Agencies.
The bureau said its figures came from
976 agencies and totaled approximately
the same amount spent in December
1881
Direct relief, whether in the form of
general relief or in the form of special
allowances from public funds such as
mothers aid old-age relief and aid for
the blind, bore the brunt of the decline,
for the amount of work relief actually
increased l3 per cent in July over June,
the upward trend being especially evi-
dent in work relief administered by pri-
vate agencies. which increased over 26
per cent. while that administered by
public agencies increased over per
cent" the bureau said
The greatest increase in relief eX-
penditures between July. 1881. and July,
1882, came in the field of general re-
lief. which increased 1912 per cent.
During this period work relief increased
76.5 per cent, and special allowances
1873 per cent. Emergency relief commit
tees gave seven and one-half times as
much relief.
Growing dependence upon the county
as financing and administrative unit
for relief is reflected in reports showing
six times as much expended for relief by
county departments this year as COM
pared with July year ago. City de-
partmentS spent over twice as much for
general public relief and work relief ad-
mlnlstered by private agencies increased
nearly five times. Veterans relief pro-
vided through public departments ex-
panded by tWo-thirds The smallest in
crease. 2.8 per cent, was reported for
mothers aid
Types of Assistance.
while all types of direct relief de-
clined between June and July, 782
agencies reported total increase in the
number of families receiving certain
types Of assistance, 761,372 in July. as
compared with 755,715 in June, a rise
of Seven-tenths of l per cent. Emer-
gency relief committees gave aid to
over 46 per cent more families than in
June; tie Salvation Army to per cent
more; county relief departments 6.9
per cent: old-age relief was given to
2.7 per cent more and non-sectarian
family societies aided IL per cent more.
AS compared with July, 1881, the num-
Der OF families receiving general relief
increased 1898 per cent in July, 1882,
and those receiving special allowances
increased 289 per cent.
Reports from 162 agencies showed
an increase of l per cent in the num-
Der of meals provided for homeless and
transient persons from June to July
and a decrease of 2 per cent in the
number of nights lodgings furnished
during the same period.