The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-24
Aid Committee Also Reports o Office To Be
 Efficiently Managed
Snrveys0f System of Administering Relief, Achieve
 ments, Recommendations in Present Emergency Filed in Committee Report

cases that are receiving care in state institutions; (F) convalescent relief cases that are receiving care in pri- vate homes or private institutions; CO Brookside home relief cases.
 In order that you may have bet ter understanding of the relief needs of the city and lthe extent to which it must provide assistance to meet these neds, we will preface this re- port with an analysis of the entire field of relief. Later we will break down the assistance rendered into the various categories of relief so that you will be able to distribute the total expenditures into such items as food, rent, fuel, milk, cloth ing, drugs and hospital care.
 Analysis of Relief Load
 During the. month of August, the department of public welfare aided 302 full relief cases sos partial re- lief cases, and 203 w. P. A. supple mentary relief cases. On the w. F A. there are 1,252 cases, whom they had certified as eligible for relief These families were receiving no as- sistance other than through w. P. A. wages. There were 258 families, one or more of whose members were re- ceiving care in state institutions. Two hundred and twenty-five of these were in hospitals for the men, tally i'll and B in tuberculosis sana- toria.
 Summarizing we have total of 2.586 families who are either receiv- ing relief from the city or would be eligible for relief If they were not on the Works Progress Administers tion. &
 The recapitulation follows:
 Dept. of Public Welfare-full
 relief cases ................. 391 Dept. of Public Welfare-par-
 tial relief cases .............. 508 Works Progress Admin.-supple-
 mentary relief cases. ......... 203 Works Progress Admin.-Non-
 rellef cases ................ 1,1oz State institutional cases ...... 258 Convalescent home cases ...... "A Brookside Home cases ......... 145
 Total .2,586
 The study of the Works Progress Administration took the form of re- investigation at the request of the department of public welfare. It is necessary for the welfare department to re-investigate its W. P. A. cases every six months so we were able to render a service to the city by conducting the re-investigation for them and at the same time deter mine for this report thesextend of need on W. P. A. cases. We found that very little change had taken place in these families since their previous certification and where any change had occurred, prompt action was taken as soon as 1t was called to the attention of the welfare de- partment. It is customary for the welfare department to certify every applicant for w. P. A. employment. It is also procedure of the depart ment to withdraw certiflcation promptly when other income in the family exceeds the budget require ments.
 We have found that men ana women on the W. P. A. are anxious to return to regular employment and we would suggest that more attention be given by industry to the re-em- ployment of these workers.
 Unless they give up days pay it is practically impossible for WPA workers to join the lines of appli- cants. who each mourning frequent the employment offices of the large industries. Their records are in the State Elm. loyreLt Service. classi- fled as to skill and other attributes. Closer coordination of industry with this service would result in a much