Jewish family welfare organizations do less emergency work, give a greater proportion of long-time service, keep their cases under care longer, use financial relief more freely where it is used at all, have larger staffs, burden the workers with fewer cases and pay their staffs somewhat better, Ralph C. Hurlin, director of the department of statistics of the Russell Sage Foundation, declared before the National Conference of Jewish Social Service. His facts were based on a study of Jewish family welfare organizations in comparison with other organizations in the same field.
A. W. McMillan, director of registration of social statistics of the University of Chicago submitted charts showing that the average expenditure of Jewish family welfare organizations for relief in a studied area was 72 per cent higher than the expenditure of the leading non-sectarian agencies. Mr. McMillan also presented evidence from a large group of cities showing that 93 per cent of the children under the care of Jewish placing-out agencies were in foster homes provided and supervised by specialized agencies, while among the entire group of Jewish and non-Jewish institutions in the same area 66 per cent of the foster home children were in foster homes.
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