Evening star., 1933-01-01
MORE THAN 100000
/ GIVEN HELP FREE
Chest Organizations Expect
.hs Still Larger Burden
In Coming Year.

b The member organizations Of the
@ommunity Chest rendered services to
Snore than 100000 individual persons
without compensation for that service
II was revealed in figures made public
ht Community Chest headquarters yes
kerday.
The figure was arrived at, it was an
nounced, after a careful check had been
made of all cases, elimination of any
possible duplication, and further sort
ing of the cases that have come to the
httention of the So member agencies
during the last year.
The heaviest burden, 1t was stated,
fell on the family welfare organizations.
These organizations gave services to
54,050 individuals, some OF them re-
Ceiving care for months at a time, and
the agencies requiring approximately
$l,300,000 for their work during the
year. This did not include the welfare
work of the Emergency Relief Division
of the Board of Public Welfare, which
used $350,000 appropriated By Congress
and 100000 advanced by the Chest
for unemployment relief.
Get Nursing Service.
The statistics show that 1900 re-
ceived nursing service without paying
for it, and character building organiza-
tions gave services to $1,000 persons.
The Salvation Army provided for 32,-
$40 transient men and boys, another
work that was not duplicated, while
Chest organizations took care of $3.50
dependent children and 160 aged per-
sons in addition to those helped by
the family welfare and relief organiza-
tions.
Chest hospitals gave free or part-pay
treatment to 25.970 patients in the
wards, while 65,280 were given medical
advice and treatment by the clinics and
medical social service departments. 1t
is probable that a number of these per-
sons receiving help at the clinics also
were included in the list receiving hos
pital treatment were among the ap-
proximately 1900 receiving free nurs-
ing treatment, and in many instances
were among those being helped by the
family welfare and relief agencies
Other agencies for the handicapped
aided about $500 persons.
Cut by Implications.
Work of all these agencies added to-
gether would show that Chest organ
izations cared for approximately 270, 900
persons during the year, it was ex-
planned, but the elimination OF rec0rQS
of service to an individual by more than
one agency especially among hospitals,
clinics, nursing service and family well
fare and relief agencies, would bring
the total of individuals helped down to
about 100000.
Even allowing for the $4,000 tran
sientS aided by the Travellers Aid Soci-
ETY. and the Salvation Army Emergency
Lodge, these figures mean that some
sort of service was rendered to more
than 100000 Washingtonians, or more
than one-third of the city's population.
These services ranged from the provi-
sion of leisure time activities to food,
lodging and fuel for months at stretch.
With the increasing exhaustion of re-
sources due to the unemployment situa-
ton, and consequently increased de-
mands for relief, Chest officials say, the
burden for 1888 will be still heavier,
while the Chest has less funds than
were available last year. Even II Con-
gress decides to permit the District OF
Columbia government to allocate
$I,25e. 900 of its tax funds to the Board
of Public Welfare Emergency Division
for relief work. Chest officials say that
this amount will not tighten the burden
of the Chest family welfare and relief
agencies because of increased need fer
relief.