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The article informs that the main phases of the public charities of Los Angeles County are represented by the county hospital, the county farm, and outdoor relief. For the purpose of meeting the outdoor relief needs the county, including the City of Los Angeles, is divided into several sections. The city is divided into four districts. Outside the city is the North Coast District, embracing the Santa Monica Bay region, San Fernando Valley, and the Antelope Valley to the Ventura County line. The Border District embraces the San Gabriel Valley, including Monrovia, Pomona, Azusa and other suburban towns. The Outdoor Relief Division has fifty-nine employees. Of this number thirty-one are field visitors and ten are student visitors, five conduct the work of the salvage bureau, and the remainder are executives or clerks. During the current fiscal year, the total amount of money expended for outdoor relief by the Division was $536,491.18. Of this sum the total outdoor relief care of children amounted to $236,758.32. This includes both state and county aid. The transportation of indigents back to their home counties in various pans of the United States cost $22,422.00. The cost of administering the entire outdoor relief by the Division was $83,969.87, or a total overhead of 13.54 per cent. |
