Matter of Beggs v. Kern

Lehman, Ch. J.

The city of New York, through the Department of Welfare, the Board of Child Welfare, the Department of Hospitals, and the Department of Correction, is performing social service in a wide field. It is common knowledge that relief of the needy, furnished through those departments, has constantly increased during the last decades, and especially since 1931. The number of social investigators employed in these departments has also increased greatly. While the number of social investigators employed in each department was small the positions held by them were not graded and so long…