TABLE 14.-Per cent of persons involved in cases given aid specified, by general nativity and race of head of case-Continued. 13.0 Irish... 7,251 7.7 25.6 2,594 6.7 27.2 23.9 52.6 26.5 3.7 22.4 3.5 2.8 16.3 2.2 1.1 26.8 4.2 .6 20.5 1.8 18.3 4.9 1.7 17.0 1.9 43. 4 4.4 3.0 19.0 Italian, North. 352 Italian, South. 3,593 Italian (not specified). 657 Lithuanian.. 609 6.9 6.8 36.1 20.7 50.0 62.8 35.3 22.0 Norwegian.. 904 14.8 25.2 25.8 Polish.. Portuguese.. Russian The per cent of cases and the proportion of persons involved in cases receiving each specified aid, in the order of importance, follow: Food or meals were furnished to 49.6 per cent of the cases, which involved 51.4 per cent of the total number of persons. This aid was furnished to more than 60 per cent of the cases of the races which follow: Fuel was furnished to more than one-third of the cases of the fol Italian, South, foreign-born.... French, native-born of foreign father.. Per cent. 41. 2 40.7 36.5 36.4 35.7 34. 7 Canadian, other than French, native-born of foreign father. Clothing was furnished to more than one-third of the cases of the Medicine or medical assistance was furnished to one-fourth or more The percentages of cases furnished the aid specified, by general nativity of head of case, were as follows: The most radical differences in the above comparisons are with respect to the negro native-born of native father. Employment was secured for a much smaller proportion and medicine and medical assistance were furnished in a much larger proportion of cases of that race than of any of the other classes shown in the above table. PERSONS PER CASE. The per cent of cases assisted consisting of each specified number of persons is shown, by general nativity and race of head of case, in the table which follows: TABLE 15.-Per cent of cases of each specified number of persons, by general nativity and race of head of case. [This table includes only races represented by 50 or more cases as shown in Table 3. The totals, however, are for all races.] Dutch. English.. Finnish.. German. 18.9 12.4 10.3 9.6 Hebrew. Irish. Italian, North. 1,959 Italian, South. Italian (not specified). Lithuanian.. 805 30.4 50 18.0 14.0 22.0 8.0 18.0 94 29.8 20.2 9.6 12.8 11.7 4.3 2,156 17.9 18.2 12.9 13.1 11.5 9.9 659 12.7 7.6 12.6 15.8 12.7 12.1 12.9 24.9 16.0 10.8 11.2 10.0 8.6 8.1 78 15.4 5.1 20.5 12.8 11.5 14.1 6.4 760 5.9 11.6 14.7 16.6 14.1 15.5 10.1 6.1 2.9 148 8.1 6.8 14.2 20.3 12.2 16.2 8.8 10.8 136 8.1 6.6 16.2 19.9 15.4 16.2 11.0 4.4 2.2 206 18.4 10.2 12.6 16.0 19.4 13.1 6.8 .5 1.9 248 26.2 13.3 12.1 12.1 11.3 10.9 7.9 4.0 2.0 2,048 4.6 9.2 14.1 14.6 17.2 15.2 11.3 7.3 4.0 50 8.0 20.0 2.0 12.0 20.0 10.0 12.0 4.0 6.0 109 26.6 9.2 11.9 10.1 12.8 10.1 10.1 4.6 3.7 276 40.6 11.2 14.9 7.6 6.2 7.2 5.4 2.9 1.4 243 6.2 11.9 16.9 16.0 17.7 11.9 9.1 5.8 3.3 513 18.9 13.8 11.5 15.6 12.3 13.1 7.0 4.9 2.1 65 12.3 6.2 23.1 9.2 23.1 15.4 1.5 .0 1.5 71 22.5 18.3 14.1 9.9 8.5 12.7 5.6 4.2 31,562 20.4 16.1 14.6 13.8 11.6 6.8 5.0 3.6 1.7 1.2 12.0 2.0 4.0 3,386 20.9 14.0 13.9 14.2 12.6 9.6 7.7 4.1 1.9 1.2 19,478 22.2 17.6 15.6 14.1 11.0 8.2 5.8 3.1 1.4 .9 12,084 17.5 13.7 13.0 13.4 12.6 11.2 8.5 5.3 3.0 1.8 The large proportion of cases consisting of only a few persons is worthy of note. Of the 31,562 cases, the per cent consisting of each specified number of persons is as follows: The cases where the head was foreign-born average a somewhat larger number of persons per case than do the cases where the head was native-born. Those consisting of eight or more persons show 10.1 per cent where the head of case was foreign-born and 5.4 per cent where the head of case was native-born. The races having comparatively large proportions of cases consisting of eight or more persons are— Dutch, foreign-born Portuguese, foreign-born Canadian, French, foreign-born. Italian, North, foreign-born.. Per cent. 18.9 16.0 15.9 14. 1 "TYPE" OF CASE. The cases included in this investigation have been classified under four groups and each group has been termed a "type." The groups аге 1. Cases consisting of husband and wife, with or without children. 2. Cases consisting of a widow, with or without children. 3. Cases consisting of a widower, with or without children. 4. All other cases. The number of cases of each "type" and the size of each family involved are shown in the table next presented. |