Multnomah county relief committee administration correspondence.

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Multnomah county relief committee administration correspondence.

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Series documents relief activities of the Multnomah County Relief Committee (MCRC) during the Depression. Series includes correspondence with staff, clients, agencies, and Portland civic leaders, statistical reports, investigations, expenditure reports, complaints, and staff meeting minutes. Topics include the Civilian Conservation Corps, Portland Community Chest, the Direct Relief Committee (Portland), groceries, legal matters, mosquito control, malnutrition, mortgage relief, National Reemployment Service, Oregon Economic League, Public Welfare Bureau, relief case load, relief policies, rural rehabilitation, relief scrip, State Relief Committee, single men's relief, transients, Unemployed Citizens League meeting reports (by MCRC informant), unemployment, Veteran's Relief Unit, Works Progress Administration, and women.

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Oregon. Multnomah County Relief Committee.

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Oregon. State Public Welfare Commission

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The Public Welfare Commission was created in 1939 as a result of the combination of duties of the Child Welfare Commission and the State Relief Committee. The Welfare Commission was created in 1919 succeeding the state-aided Child Welfare Committee founded in 1913. The Child Welfare Commission was responsible for licensing institutions which cared for neglected and dependent children, preparing adoption reports for courts, and investigating reports of child abuse and neglect. ...