Evening star., 1935-07-15
SOCIAL SERVICE
|AND RELIEF LOAD
REDUCED $163,5D3
2,780 individuals and Fami-
lies Taken Off District
Rolls.
'17,7O2 CASES GIVEN
ASSISTANCE IN JUNE
4,473 Listed as Unemployables in
Report for Month Submitted
by Street.

June expenditures for all relief and
social service activities in the District
dropped $163,5O3, or slightly more
than 16 per cent from the May total,
according to figures released today
by the Board of Public Welfare.
During May commitments were
made amounting to $998,681. while
last month the figure was $835.l78.
The principal item in the decrease
was a reduction by 2,780, or II per
cent, of families and individuals on
relief rolls, Elwood Street, director of
public welfare. stated.
This alone accounted for decline
in expenditures of from 1921 ,642 to
S498,411, or about 20 per cent. The
improvement in Washington's relief
situation is outstanding compared with
the average for the entire country fig
ures based on survey of lao major
cities reveal.
Further Drop Expected.
The average drop in relief cases is
placed at 3.3 per cent. while the de-
crease in money spent for direct and
work relief amounted to sc per cent.
In May there were 2O,482 families
and individuals on relief here, while
in June only 17,702 cases received
assistance.
Commissioner George E. Allen, works
progress administrator for the District,
hopes to absorb the majority of these
persons in the new works program now
taking shape.
In Streets tabulation, however, are
4,473 persons listed as unemployables,
who represent more or less perma-
nent burden on the city.
A breakdown of the June figures
shows there were IL, ,409 direct relief
cases, while 1o027 cases were listed
under the heading of work relief"
A total of s184,994 was disbursed in
the former classification and s3l3,016
in the latter.
S28.13 Average Case.
The average sum received per case
during the month was S2813, which
was arrived at by figuring in a s16.21
average for direct relief cases and
S3l % for work-relief cases.
The relief total includes 1l,94l
families and 5.761 individuals. A
racial division of the statistics indi-
Gates 724 per cent of all the relief
cases are colored. The average family
size was 366 persons.
Only 1913 new applications for relief
we're accepted during the month. but
there were 307 old cases reopened.
The majority of both groups assigned
unemployment as the reason for their
need. There were 439 applications re-
jected after investigation.
New Office Opened.
At the same time it made public its
June statistical report. The welfare
Board announced that its Public As
sistance Division today opened a new
District Office in the building at 1929
Pennsylvania avenue, which formerly
was occupied by the Washington Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital.
This Office will replace the one at
1908 Pennsylvania avenue and will
take over most of the case load form
erly carried by the office in George
town which was closed June l.
Announcing the change, Miss Alice
Hill, director of the Public Assistance
Division, said:
In locating this District Office in
the former hospital building. the
Public Assistance Division is looking
forward to longtime program of
aid to unemployables and others whose
needs are not covered by the work
program, and moving forward from
merely emergency service"