Chapter XLIII: Appendix: II (3)

REGISTRATION, FIRST: begun by Red Cross, 44; character of records on
card, 46, 47; families and individuals registered in seven civil
sections by, 45, 46; form of card used in, 425, 426; housing of
registered families as shown by, 71, 72, 73; method and results of,
47; overcrowding and bad sanitary conditions not shown on card used
in, 73; population in Golden Gate Park not included in, 73; primary
object of, 46; reasons why defective, 48

REGISTRATION, SECOND: conduct and results of, 115, 116; face and
reverse of card used in, 428, 429; when and why made, 49; use of card
in civil sections, 115

REGISTRATION BUREAU: formulation of plans for, by Red Cross, 14;
organization and force of, 45. See also _Enumerators_

REHABILITATION: age of possible, 365; amount of principal and
subsidiary grants for, 158; applicants for, among Ingleside Camp
inmates, 336; applicants for, by age, by nature and disposal of
application, and by domestic status, 154; applicants for, classified
by specified handicaps, 155; applicants for, number of persons and of
children in families of, 156; applicants for, who possessed resources,
grants and refusals to, 167, 168; applied for by Ingleside Camp
inmates, nature of, 344; beginning of work of, 13-19; centralized
system of work, 124-133; district and centralized systems of work
discussed and accounted for, 135, 136, 370; estimate of money required
for, 121; general policy of, 107-111; grants for, by amount and nature
of relief given, 165-167; nature of principal and subsidiary grants
for, 157, 158; of institutions, 141-145; of old people at Ingleside
Camp, 361, 362; periods of work of, 111, 112, 129; reasons for refusal
of, by nature of application, 166; recommendations regarding, by Dr.
Devine, 16, 17; record card used in work of, 115, 116; record of
burned-out families applying to Associated Charities, 291; refugees
with and without record of, who applied to Associated Charities, 294;
re-opening of cases, 160; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp
applying for, 343-352; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp
who did not apply for, 353, 354; study of, lessons learned from, 370,
371; suspension of grants arrested work of, 99, 100; time elapsing
between application and grant in different periods of, 164, 165;
workers, staff of, formed, 14. See also _Rehabilitation Committee_;
_Relief and Rehabilitation, Department of_; _Applications for
Rehabilitation_

REHABILITATION BUREAU. See _Red Cross Special Relief and
Rehabilitation Bureau_

REHABILITATION COMMITTEE: additional aid granted to families receiving
grants and loans for building by, 272, 273; additional aid granted to
receivers of bonuses by, 248; administrative details of, 406-416; aim
as to single grants, how far attained, 160; applicants referred to
Associated Charities by, 134; applications for small building loans
taken up by housing sub-committee of, 253, 254; applications on forms
to, when required, 117; applications passed on by single members of,
160; appointed by Finance Committee to supersede earlier bureau, 15,
21; attempt to gather up loose ends by, 415; cases of single and
widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp who applied for aid to, 343-352;
cases of, used in study of Ingleside Camp inmates, 327; caution in
giving justified, 312; centralized system of, 412; closing of civil
sections, and inauguration of centralized system, 124; clothing
distribution by, 57; compelled to accept recommendations from outside
organizations, 138; conditions of grant to Associated Charities by,
133; consideration of cases out of turn by, 412; consolidation of
families fostered by, 177; delegation of powers to section committees
by, 119; directions given by the Associated Charities for use of
workers of, 406-407; disbursements of, 124; expenditure through, for
housing construction, 220; experience with recommendations by
ministers, 117; extracts from circular on “Requirements for
Satisfactory Investigations” prepared for, 140; fourth period of work
marked by pressure, 129; fifth period of work marked by discharge of
sub-committees, 131; forms used by, 432-436; funds entrusted to, for
allotment to charitable organizations, 132; grant and loan plan
formulated by, 253, 254; grants by members of, 174; grants for
business rehabilitation and number of different occupations
represented, 183; grants for housing made by, 257; grants made by, to
applicants who afterwards applied to Associated Charities, 298, 299;
hope of, in granting sums for business rehabilitation insufficient for
establishing a business, 203; housing recommendations of, 22, 24;
help toward refurnishing of homes given by, 130; instances where
refusals to grant aid for business rehabilitation were not justified,
209; instructions for force prepared by superintendent of, 123;
investigating force of, 115; Jewish societies agreed to work through,
141; kept outside province of Executive Commission, 25; lesson
regarding records learned from study of work of, 413; limitation of
applications received by, 126; limitation of size of grants by, 108;
means which might have obviated re-opening of cases by, 163; meetings
of, 127; membership of, 378; method of work in district organization,
408-412; monthly budgets of, 408; notes on bookkeeping and
registration under, 415-416; notified by camp commander of inability
of tenants to pay rent, 84; notified of withdrawal of staff of
Associated Charities, 132; periods of work of, defined and
characterized, 111, 112; plan of August, 1906, 124; policy in regard
to grants, 108, 109; principle underlying work of, 107; problem of
care for aged and infirm, 359-362; provisions regarding grants and
loans by, 128, 129; receipts of applications suspended by, 122;
relation to Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, 109;
responsibility of, defined, 110; satisfactory co-operation with Hebrew
Board of Relief, 141; situation at beginning of work of, 107; Special
Relief Bureau called on for aid by, 149; standards established by,
118; sub-committees, work and chairmen of, 125; transportation bureau
merged with, 60; unsatisfactory history of co-operation with auxiliary
societies, 138, 139, 140; work of, distinguished from that of Bureau
of Special Relief, 111; work of, in second period, 120, 121;
withdrawal of office staff of Associated Charities from, 132, 133. See
also _Red Cross Special Relief and Rehabilitation Bureau_;
_Rehabilitation_

RE-INVESTIGATION: of cases refused aid, reasons why not attempted, 314

RELIEF: accounting, use of word “claim” in, 96; applications for, how
passed upon, 160; basis, work of application bureau put on, 130, 131;
by free and reduced rate tickets, 59; classes of, and order of demand,
12, 13; distribution, records of incomplete, 42; emergent, given by
Associated Charities, 299-305; estimate of amount required for, by
Department of Relief and Rehabilitation, 121; in cash, possibility of
strict audit of, 369; in kind, impossibility of strict accounting for,
369; in kind, need of bureau to supply, 145, 146; speculative
character of, in cases of aged and infirm, 363; permanent, given by
Associated Charities, 305-310; principles of, two conceptions in
conflict, 13; refused by Associated Charities, 310-314; to Chinese and
Japanese, value of, 94, 95. See also topics which follow; and
_Applications_; _Rehabilitation_

RELIEF AND REHABILITATION BUREAU. See _Red Cross Special Relief and
Rehabilitation Bureau_

RELIEF AND REHABILITATION, DEPARTMENT OF: chairman and duties of, 400;
chairman’s action in regard to grants to institutions, 141-145;
creation of, 26; date when Bureau of Hospitals closed, 93; erection of
grant and loan houses by, 220; expenditure through, for assistance in
constructing permanent homes, 220; funds required to carry on work of,
121; relation to Department of Camps and Warehouses defined, 110;
responsibility for relief outside camps, 111; sewing work under, 88;
status of work one year and two years after fire, 28, 29; use of civil
sections by, 12

RELIEF, BUREAU OF SPECIAL. See _Special Relief, Bureau of_

RELIEF COMMITTEES: independent, confusion caused by, 37

RELIEF CORPORATION: all responsibility in a disaster should rest upon
a single, 100, 101. See _San Francisco Relief and Red Cross Funds, a
Corporation_

RELIEF FUNDS. See _Funds_

RELIEF, GENERAL: applications for, granted and refused, 153, 154;
applications for, passed on by sub-committees and by members of
Rehabilitation Committee, 160; cases of single and widowed inmates of
Ingleside Camp who applied for, 352; grants for, classified by
amounts, 165, 167; grants for, size of, 158, 159; principal and
subsidiary grants for, number and amount, 157, 158; reasons for
refusal of applications for, 166; re-opening of cases where principal
grant was for, 161, 162; use of term, instead of Special Relief, to
cover miscellaneous grants, 108

RELIEF HOME: building of, determined on by Corporation, 321;
characteristics of population of, 358-362; completion of, 28;
conditions influencing population of, 357; population, admissions and
movement to and from, 356; sick and convalescent inmates at, 365, 366

RELIEF IN DEFERRED AND NEGLECTED CASES, Committee on (Sub-committee
VIII): chairman of, 125

RELIEF OF AGED AND INFIRM, UNSUPPORTED CHILDREN AND FRIENDLESS GIRLS,
COMMITTEE ON (Sub-committee II): chairman of, 125

RELIEF OF THE HUNGRY, SUB-COMMITTEE ON: difficulties contended with
by, 39; relief stations reported by, 42; status of work at final
report to Finance Committee, 37; sub-committee on housing the homeless
worked independently of, 70

RELIEF OF UNSUPPORTED OR PARTIALLY SUPPORTED FAMILIES, COMMITTEE ON
(Sub-committee III); chairman of, 125

RELIEF SECTIONS. See _Civil Sections_

RELIEF, SPECIAL: estimate (August) of amount required for, 121;
general relief used as equivalent term to cover miscellaneous grants,
108; recommendations regarding, by Dr. Devine, 16; single and widowed
inmates of Ingleside Camp who applied for, 349-351

RELIEF STATIONS: and registration, 40-49; in charge of army, 11, 40;
in civil section VI, list of, 41; in seven civil sections, number, 42;
private, 44; recommendation of Dr. Devine regarding, 17; taken charge
of by Colonel Febiger, 40

RELIEF STATIONS, BUREAU OF CONSOLIDATED: establishment of, 40; hot
meal kitchen contracts under, 50; requisitions on, 42

RELIEF SURVEY: estimate by, of value of relief to Japanese by army and
Finance Committee, 95; estimate of persons in shacks and barracks made
for, 77; findings of, regarding frauds, 117; findings of, regarding
results of business rehabilitation, 187, 188; housing study a part of,
215; no attempt by, to ascertain what references investigated, 116;
re-visit to 1,000 cases of applicants for business rehabilitation made
for, 174; some lessons of, 369-373; weaknesses in centralized system
revealed by, 135

RELIEF WORK: of Associated Charities, disbursements for, 309; plan
for, drawn up by army officers, 18; reasons for limiting scope of, in
February, 1907, 130; what an account of, should include, 298

RENTALS: business and residence, paid by families receiving aid for
business rehabilitation, 177-183; for camp cottages, amount collected
and refunded, 222; for camp cottages, plan to charge, 83; for camp
cottages, plan to charge blocked by ordinance, 222; paid before fire
by families aided under grant and loan plan, 270; paid for lots by
those removing cottages from camps, 234; paid for lots in cottage
settlements, 235, 236

REPEATING: allowance for, in army reports, 43; registration to
prevent, 46

REPORTS OF TRAGIC DEATHS following disaster, 5

RESIDENCES: occupied by families receiving business rehabilitation,
number of rooms in, 180. See also _Houses_

RESOURCES: of families aided under bonus plan, 244-248; grants and
refusals to applicants for rehabilitation possessing, 167, 168

RESTAURANTS: opening of, recommended by Dr. Devine, 15. See also _Hot
meal kitchens_

RESTRICTIONS: desirability of having contributions sent without, 369;
on expenditures of funds, 100-103

RIORDAN, ARCHBISHOP: member of Rehabilitation Committee of Finance
Committee, 21; on special committee, 15; prediction of, quoted, 78

ROOFING THE HOMELESS, Sub-committee on: work of, 70

ROOMS: letting of, by applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 267;
letting of, by families aided under bonus plan, 250, 251; number of,
in houses owned and occupied before and rebuilt after fire under bonus
plan, 249, 250; number of, occupied before fire by families aided
under cottage plan, 230; number of, occupied by families aided under
grant and loan plan, 267

RUSSIA: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76; natives of, in San Francisco in
1900, 74

ST. FRANCIS TECHNICAL SCHOOL: as headquarters for Relief Corporation,
26

ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL: refugees in line at, 36

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: conference of, privilege of having
recommendations accepted extended to, 138; invited to confer on plan
for administration of relief work, 132; represented on committee to
pass on applications for housing, 133

SALARIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES: disbursements of Associated
Charities for, 309

SALOONS: policy regarding grants to, 128. See also _Liquor_

SAN FRANCISCO: a military and naval center, 7; cash contributions for
relief made in, 34; cash remitted to, by American National Red Cross,
35; citizens of, visited Congress to discuss building fund plan, 216;
districted for policing and redistricted to bring under military
control, 11, 12; housing problems in, compared with those in eastern
cities, 277; location of, 3; nativity of population of, in 1900, 74,
331; payment by, for almshouse patients at Ingleside Camp, 327;
persons sent from, to various destinations, 66, 67, 68; population of,
in different years, 356; proportion of almshouse admissions and
inmates to population of, 356; study of dependency problems in second
and third year following disaster in, 281, 282; terms of
transportation of persons sent from, 68; wage-earners in, more highly
paid than in any other part of United States, 296

SAN FRANCISCO RELIEF AND RED CROSS FUNDS, A CORPORATION: aided by park
commissioners, 84; announcement regarding business rehabilitation by,
172-173; applicants to, among inmates of Ingleside Camp, 336;
applicants who first applied for rehabilitation after Corporation’s
rehabilitation work was done, 286; appointment of Board of Trustees
of, 401; appropriations for work for unemployed made by, 305, 306;
balance sheet showing of August 11, 1906, 121; bonus plan, outline and
history of, 239, 240; bonus policy discussed, 251, 252; building of
Relief Home determined by, 321; cash receipts of, 33, 35; clearing of
squares by, 85; conditions which could not be anticipated by, 362;
construction of cottages under, 82, 221; contribution from China to,
95; cost for care of sick by, 93, 94; could get no information of
claims paid by War Department and state, 98; criticisms of accounting
system answered, 98, 99; decision regarding grants to charitable
organizations reached by Executive Committee of, 132; departments and
personnel of, 26, 398-400; embarrassed by withholding of funds, 99,
100; expenditure for food and its distribution by, 52, 53; expenditure
for sewing work by, 88; expenditures for housing by, 220; family cases
at Ingleside Camp applying to and aided by, 337-342; houses erected
by, according to style of house or plan under which relief given, 219;
incorporation and departments of, 26; lessor of cottages, 83;
membership and departments of, 396-398; plan of purchasing or leasing
lots considered by, 218; plan to build cottages and let contracts made
public by, 82; refusal by, to sell cottages to vacant lot owners, 233;
reimbursement of hospitals by, 93; relations of, with hospitals and
Associated Charities, 93; resignation of Associated Charities as
investigating agent of, 281; result of union of official and private
efforts, 27; single and widowed inmates of Ingleside Camp applying to,
344; suggestion of, 24; suits against, 98; temporary barracks for aged
and infirm equipped by, 321, 322; unanimous in dissatisfaction with
work of auxiliary societies, 138; work of, indorsed by investigator of
Massachusetts committee, 100

SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS: in houses built under bonus plan, 248; in
houses occupied by applicants aided under cottage plan, 231, 232

SANITARY CONDITIONS: in cottage settlements, 235, 236

SANITATION: measures of, applied after disaster, 89-91; of camps and
city, cost of, 87

SAN JOSÉ: location of, 3

SANTA CLARA VALLEY: arrangements for baking bread in, 37

SAUSALITO: location of, 3

SAVINGS: of applicants aided under grant and loan plan, 265; of
families aided under cottage plan, 229; possessed by applicants aided
by bonus, 247

SCANDINAVIANS: among refugees, 75. See also _Denmark_; _Norway_;
_Sweden_

SCHMITZ, EUGENE E. See _Mayor Schmitz_

“SCHOLARSHIP” GRANTS: instance of, 307, 308

SCOTCH: among refugees, 75. See also _Scotland_

SCOTLAND: cash contributions for relief of San Francisco made in, 34;
natives of, among refugees, 74, 76, 77; natives of, in San Francisco
in 1900, 74

SECTIONS, CIVIL. See _Civil Sections_