which we would not in the slightest degree condone, are after all offenses which have not involved the wrongful use of one cent of public funds, nor resulted in the slightest suffering or abuse on the part of any one of the more than 20,000 insane wards of the state. not be forgotten. So long as the If the Governor had recognized expedient must be applied. Let the these facts in his memorandum accompanying the removal, as it seems to us he might properly have done, he would have left less opportunity for the statement made by Dr. Wise that the Governor's action was based on personal animosity. Probably the penalty was just and under all the circumstances necessary, but might it not have been wiser to temper its administration with a due recognition and appreciation of the really valuable services which Dr. Wise has rendered to the state property owner who fails to keep ** The twenty-first annual report of the Associated Charities of Boston is for the year ending May 3, 1900. and to its most helpless dependents? Nearly 40,000 inquiries and reports ** * An editorial in the Jewish Messenger of last week discusses the tenement problem in part as follows: The dispersion of immigrants, such as is being attempted on a small scale by the Hirsch Fund and other agencies, and the gradual removal of factories to the suburbs, would be a blow at the tenement evil. Such settlements should not be exclusive, or they may develop olden dangerous conditions. The success of Woodbine tells the story of how the congested city districts may be cured, and all honor to the few who have given their energies in this direction, with such rapid and surprising results. Two other considerations must about more than 9,000 families passed through the central office during the year. During the year, 3.006 new families were registered and 6,106 old families, a total of 9.112. One thousand visitors gave of their time and service which acted as a leaven in the lives of the poor whom they visited, and in the lives of the neighbors who saw their comings and goings. ** Mr. Frank Tucker, general agent of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor of New York, addressed a meeting of the was an explanation of the methods employed by his society to reach the contributing element, and to sift out the worthy applicants. He spoke also of the tenement-house problem in New York, and the prevalence of consumption in the overcrowded sections, and of the inability to handle all the cases of this disease that seek relief. Mr. William C. Schermerhorn, second vice-president of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Second avenue and Thirteenth street, presented $75,000 to that institution, December 19. The money is to constitute a fund for the construction of a pavilion for patients afflicted with diseases of the ear. The plans of the pavilion were submitted by Mr. Schermerhorn with his gift. The building will be of brick, five stories high, occupying a lot at Second avenue and Thirteenth street, thirty-five feet wide, and eighty-five feet deep. According to the annual report of the infirmary for the year ended October 1, 1900, 135,269 cases were treated in the dispensary department, while the ward cases numbered 2,257. ** The following letter sent from Philadelphia to the Charity Organization Society is written by a woman of high culture and of much prominence in literary and religious circles in earlier years. The letter is not inappropriately addressed to Mr. Kellogg, who, although not now an officer of the society, is entitled to the credit for having interested in its work many of the persons who now constitute its active working corps: Chestnut St., Philadelphia, My dear Mr. Kellogg : Accept my husband's thanks and my own for the richly interesting report of the Charity Organization Society. The amount of labor by the best and brightest minds in New York for the elevation of the poor, and the vast benefit to all classes, fills one with astonishment and gratitude. As disabling rheumatism and eighty-three years make writing difficult, I know you will kindly excuse my pencil and this poor scrap. With warm thanks again-in the service of our gracious Master, Your old friend, E. S. H. S. ** The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Toronto, Ontario, celebrated its fiftieth anniversary, December 9, by appropriate religious services at St. Michael's Cathedral. ** * The Illinois State Board of Charities, December 5, voted to locate the new state epileptic colony, created by an act of the last legislature, at Notchcliff, near Elsah, in Jersey county, conditional upon the people of that community agreeing to the conditions imposed by the board in connection with locating the colony. ** * Before the Michigan State Conference of Charities and Correction, recently in session, it was very tion made in the Chicago schools, states that of 75,000 children examined in the course of eight school months, 4,539 were temporarily excluded on account of contagious. disease. As a result the mortality from scarlet fever and diphtheria has been reduced almost one-half. ** * The editor of CHARITIES acknowledges with thanks, the receipt of the following reports: The United Hebrew Charities, New York. United States Consular Reports, No. 242. The Educational Alliance, New York. The Local Government Board, 1899-1900. London. Franklin Reformatory Home for Inebriates, Philadelphia. Home for Incurables, New York. La Société Des Crèches, Paris. Bulletin of Statistics Department, for August. Boston. Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, 1900. Industrial Aid Society, Boston. Colored Orphan Asylum, New York. The New York Christian Home for Inteinperate Men. The American Museum of Natural History, New York. The New York Homœopathic Medical College and Hospital. The "Little Mothers' " Annual, New York. Ahawath Chesed Shaar Hashomayim Sisterhood, New York. New York State Reformatory, El- physician for outdoor poor in the mira. Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York. Independent Order Benai Berith, New York. Department of Public Charities, 270 persons were examined in the week ending December 22. Of this number 140 were sent to the State Hos The Associated Charities, St. pital; sixty-two to the Metropolitan Paul, Minn. THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 22. The Joint Application Bureau of the Charity Organization Society and the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor received 657 applications for aid in the week ending December 22. Sixty homeless persons were taken in charge. The investigating agents from the central office of the Charity Organization Society made 563 calls to obtain information concerning the needs of those asking for assistance, and 312 new names were recorded in the registration bureau. The new families taken in charge by the district committees number sixty-two. At the woodyard 361 tickets were presented, each Hospital; twenty-three to the Dispensary; twelve to the superintendent of outdoor poor; thirty-two to Bellevue; and one returned home. The number of hospital cases sent out for investigation was 247. " VOLUME V [The number first given indicates the number of the issue; the final number, the page.] Almy, Frederic, 7, p. 5. Amendment to State Finance Law, 3. p. 8. An Illustrative Problem, 30, p. 16; 31, p. 7. Annual Meeting of Charity Organization Annual Report of Charity Organization Arrested Civilization, 15, p. 11. Barrows, Samuel J., 26, p. 10. Bellevue Hospital. Alleged Abuses, 31, p. 8. Board of Control, Economic Utility, 6, p. 7. Boys. Organized Work with, 23, p. 9. Brooklyn Association for Improving the Brooklyn Disciplinary Training School, 26, Brown, Miss Mary Wilcox, 3, p. 9. Brush, W. Franklin, 17, p. 9. Building Laws, Non-Enforcement, 29, p. 18. Charter Provisions for Public Charities, 13, P. 9. Charter Revision, 28, p. 12. Children, Care of Neglected, Massachusetts, 22, p. 14. Children, Commitment as Public Charges, Children, Co-operation of Public and Private Children of the Poor, 27, p. 20. 8; 18, p, S; 19, p. 1; 20, p. 18; 23, p. 14. Church and Charity, 8, p. 10; 27, p. I. City Hospitals, Plan for Separate Depart- Civic Club, Philadelphia, 25, p. 8. Civil Service Examinations, 18, p. 13 Classifications of Employés in Charitable Coler, Bird S., 26, p. 1. Commissioner of Charities, Brooklyn, 12, p. Committee on Dependent Children, 29, p. I. New York State, 4, p. 6; 10, p. 12; 19. Consumption, War Against, 20, p. 6. Contagion, Care of, 9, p. I. Convention of Societies for the Prevention Co-operation of Charitable Agencies in Co-operation, Principles of, 7. p. 1. Co-operative Experience of State Hospital Co-operative Movement in Great Britain, 15, p. 14. Cooper Union Labor Bureau, 7, p. 9; 30, p. 1. Criminal Tendencies Among Boys, Causes, Criminal, Treatment of, 26, p. 8. |