CHARITABLE AID
TENDENCY TO INCREASE. The Charitable Aid Committee of the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board reported to the meeting of the hoard yesterday that the tendency of charitable aid this year was towards n very considerable increase, both in the number of beneficiaries and the extent ol assistance afforded in individual cases. ■ The following table was submitted showing the comparative volume of relief for tho monthly period ended June 24:Ontdoor. 1919-20. 1918-19. 1917-18. Number of cases ... 81 .43 W) Daily average number of persons' in receipt of relief 325 121 . 71 Kations granted. ... SI2 3.2 .52. Grants in cash ... £191 £31 £3o Maintenance of children £59 £21 Approximate money equivalent of above relief which is exclusive of grants of SSS ***« sm £161 Indoor. Daily average number of persons in Tceeip.t of relief i>3 95 . HO It has been mentioned in previous rennrts, the report continued, that a hisher standard of assistance was inevitable in view of the demands made by the nuWio on behalf of sufterprs by the 1918 influenza, epidemic. That the anticinaM rise of sbndard is in progress is ivdicntrd bv the following table, wherein, to simplify the comparison the cost of the ration has been calculated at a uniform rate:— Month of, .Tunp. 1919-20. IRIS-19. 1917-18. £t.A. £s.i. £s.d. Averaee money eouivalent of rn'nef per i ,l - ( dividual included in the daily . average 11 9 0 G°lG '*
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 257, 25 July 1919, Page 6
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231CHARITABLE AID Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 257, 25 July 1919, Page 6
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