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Amount Paid Oat By lUffaku* ■ock County Tuberculosis Aiiociatlon January • November 1951..
'Sanitorium Board for Indigent patients **39.00. ' Sputum Cups and fillers 13.40.
Envelopes for mailing x-raya 11.36.
Postage for mass survey reports 9.93.
14" by 17” x-rays at clinic 13.00
Front Royal Hospital for x-rays 34.78.
Supplies (x-ray posters. File, stationary, etc.) 27.87.
Contribution toward County's part of local Health Department 500.00
TOTAL *764.80.
An indication of the extent that government—Federal, State and local combined—has grown in importance as a source of personal income, counting only direct payments to individuals, is provided by figures compiled by the U. S. Department of Commerce.
These figures, which cover the trend; and origin of State and regional income payments to individuals over the last two decades, show that aggregate Government payments of this type came to a record *35.2 billions last yean This sum was the equivalent of One-sixth of every dollar of income received by the American people from all sources in 1950, a proportion that in the past was topped only during World War II when an adnormally high level of Government personal income payments was to be expected.
Need For Economy Rims
Government income payments to individuals consist primarily of the public civilian payroll, pay of the armed forces including family allowances, various benefit payments such as those to veterans and from social benefit funds, and 5 publie assistance and other birect relief. They include Fereral, State and locally-owned Government business enterprises. Such payments in the aggregate, therefore, measure only in part the full impact of Government spending on the nation’s economic activity, especially today.
In view of the rise in expenditures at all levels of Government over the years, particularly in the Federal sphere, the question of how and where Government bodies are spending the people’s money, and to what extent efforts at economy are being practiced, are matters of increasing national concern. These questions apply
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