BENEVOLENT AND CHARITABLE ASSOCIA

TIONS AND ASYLUMS.*

Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind. East Broadway, South Boston.

FOUNDED in 1828. Young blind persons, of good moral character, can be admitted to the Institution by paying $300 per annum. This sum covers all expenses, except for clothing; namely, board, washing, medicines, instruction, the use of books, musical instruments, &c. The pupils must furnish their own clothing, and pay their own fares to and from the Institution. The friends of the pupils can visit them whenever they choose.

Indigent blind persons, of suitable age and character, belonging to Massachusetts, can be admitted gratuitously by application to the Governor for a warrant. The form employed will be furnished and all inquiries will be answered, on application at the office and salesroom of the Institution, 20 Bromfield Street.

The number of inmates September 30, 1873, was 176. The valuation of the Institution is reported at $359,449.25. Annual meeting of the Corporation in October. admitted on Thursday.

Visitors are

* More extended information than is contained in this book concerning the private charities of the State, may be found in the tenth report of the Board of State Charities.

OFFICERS.

President-Samuel Eliot.

Vice-President - John Cummings.

Treasurer-Henry Endicott.

Director and Secretary - Samuel G. Howe, M.D.

Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys.

Thompson's Island, Boston Harbor.

The Institution bearing this name was incorporated in 1835, and was formed by the union of two earlier organizations, the Boston Asylum for Indigent Boys and the Proprietors of the Boston Farm School. The first originated in 1813, and the second in 1832. Its object is to provide a good home for those boys who have lost one or both parents, and have no homes of their own. The boys are either received with the understanding that their board is to be paid, in which case they can be taken away at any time, or they are given up to the Farm School, and remain until such time as the Directors see fit to apprentice them where they can learn to support themselves. The usual number of boys is 100.

The annual meeting is held the second Tuesday in January. The Committee on Admissions meets the first Tuesday in every month at 9 Doane Street, at 10 o'clock.

Committee on Admissions - Stephen G. Deblois, John Homans, M.D., W. L. Richardson, M.D., W. B. Storer.