The Charity Building is open, statedly, from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. In addition to the Overseers of the Poor and the City Physician, the following societies have rooms in the building: BOSTON PROVIDENT ASSOCIATION. MASSACHUSETTS SOLDIERS' FUND. BOSTON SOLDIERS' FUND. BOSTON SEWING CIRCLE. LADIES' RELIEF AGENCY. YOUNG MEN'S BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. City Temporary Home. Bureau of Charity, Chardon Street, Boston. The Temporary Home, under the charge of the Overseers of the Poor, is designed to furnish provision for foundlings and persons in a destitute condition. Only women and children can be lodged there; but meals are given to deserving persons, on application to the Overseers or Matron. of Church Home for Orphan and Destitute Children. Broadway, corner of N Street, South Boston. An organization formed for the care of destitute children of all nationalities. Boys admitted from four to six years of age, and retained until ten; girls received under eight years age. Children of both sexes will be taken entire charge of, and provided with good homes when they arrive at a suitable age; or will be received for one, two, or three years, to be returned to their parents at the end of that time. Children also admitted for shorter time, on payment of board. The institution receives one hundred inmates. Application for admission must be made to Mrs. C. O. Whitmore, 14 Beacon Street; Mrs. Joseph Kidder, 12 Lynde Street; or Mrs. E. D. Peters, 6 Newbury Street. Visitors admitted on Wednesday, between 2 and 5 P. M.; parents and friends of the children on the last Wednesday of each month, between 2 and 5. The annual meeting of the Corporation is in November. President B. H. Paddock. OFFICERS. Vice-Presidents-W. R. Nicholson, J. I. T. Coolidge, G. S. Con Organized in 1794, and incorporated in 1799, for the relief of the poor and the prevention of pauperism in Roxbury. Relief, to a limited amount, is given in money, but the usual form is that of clothing, provisions, etc. An agent is employed by the society to receive applications for aid and to dispense relief. Between 300 and 400 persons are annually relieved. The Roxbury dispensary (page 181), founded in 1847, has been merged in this society, and its separate organization abandoned. The agent of both charities is the same. His office is in Cox Building, corner of Dudley and Bartlett streets. Roxbury Home for Children and Aged Women. Copeland Street, Roxbury, Boston. Organized in 1856, to provide a home for orphan or half-orphan children, and for old women of small means, having no near kindred to care personally for them. Two dollars a week are charged for the board of children, and The number of inmates is from four dollars for women. sixteen to twenty, the proportions of women and children varying. The officers are chosen annually in April. OFFICERS. President John Rogers. Treasurer - E. B. Reynolds. Infant School and Children's Home. 36 Austin Street, Charlestown, Boston. Organized as the Charlestown Infant School Association in 1833, and reorganized in 1869 under its present title, as an institution for the protection and care of destitute children. Those living or born in Charlestown are preferred. It can at present accommodate about twenty-five inmates. The institution is supported by voluntary subscriptions. Winchester Home for Aged Women. 12 Eden Street, Charlestown, Boston. This institution, founded in October, 1865, is intended as a home for American-born women, over sixty years of age, who have resided in Charlestown for at least ten years, and are in destitute circumstances. Applicants for admission as inmates are received on probation for three months, after which residence is continued or terminated at the discretion of the Board of Managers. As a general rule, the sum of $100 is paid, and the furniture of a room furnished, for each inmate on entrance. Persons are occasionally admitted as boarders, but not to the exclusion of those entirely dependent. The building now occupied by the home accommodates about thirty inmates. The annual meeting is held on the second Thursday of January. The Board of Managers hold meetings on the third Thursday of January, April, July, and October. OFFICERS. President-Liverus Hull. - Vice-Presidents — T. T. Sawyer, William Carleton. Avon Place Home. Cambridge. On the 30th of May, 1874, the home was established through the benevolence of James Huntington, of Cambridge, who at that time was able to carry into effect a long-cherished plan by which the comforts of a home could be furnished to destitute children. The trustees of the home received from Mr. Huntington a deed of the house on Avon Place, valued, with the furniture, at about $10,000. Application for the admission of children may be made to Rev. D. O. Mears, 26 Arlington Street, Cambridge. The annual meeting of the Corporation is held on the last Saturday in May. Massachusetts Infant Asylum. Near Boylston Station, West Roxbury. The institution was incorporated May 15, 1867, for the purpose of assisting and providing for deserted and destitute infant children. During the last week in November, 1875, the asylum was removed from its old quarters in Brookline to new buildings of its own on Curtis Street, Jamaica Plain, near the Boylston Station on the Providence Railroad. The structure consists of two wings of two stories each, connected by a corridor of one story. The classes of children, for whom support is provided, are foundlings, whose parentage is unknown; infants deserted by their known parents, or left orphans at a tender age; the infant children of women unable to support them entirely, who can pay a part of their cost or can take some part in the care of them. These classes are received in the order of their necessities. As many mothers are retained as wet nurses as the necessities of the institution demand. Infants are also sent to good nurses outside the asylum, either by procuring their adoption or by paying their board. In carrying out their object, the directors endeavor, at all times, to keep in mind the true relations between parents, when living, and their children, and obtain the support of the child from its parents or kindred, whenever it can be done. The annual meeting of the corporation is held on the second Tuesday in April. The directors meet on the last Tuesday of each month. Application for the admission of infants must be made to the Secretary of the Committee on Admissions, Mrs. Samuel Eliot, 44 Brimmer Street, Boston, between 9 and 11, daily, or to Dr. C. P. Putnam, 63 Marlboro Street, at 2 daily. No child, born out of the State, is received, except under the provisions of the law; nor is any child taken if over nine months of age. All children are submitted to medical examination before admission. |