A 
V 
DIRECTORY 
OF THE 
Charitable and Beneficent Organizations 
OF BOSTON, 
TOGETHER -WITH 
“LEGAL SUGGESTIONS,” “HEALTH HINTS,” 
“SUGGESTIONS TO VISITORS,” Etc. 
PREPARED BY 
THE .ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. 
BOSTON: 
A. WILLIAMS & CO., 
283 Washington Street. 
1880. THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF BOSTON. 
President; 
ROBERT TREAT PAINE, Jr. 
Vice-Presidents (Ex-Officio): 
Thomas C. Amory, . . Chairman of the Overseers of the Poor. 
Charles R. Codman, . . President of the Boston Provident Association. 
Gorham Rogers, . . President of the Roxbury Charitable Society. 
Thomas E. Ring, . . President of the Particular Council of the Society of 
St. Vincent de Paul. 
Treasurer: 
Edward E. Pratt, 24 Chestnut St., or U. S. Sub-Treasury, Milk St. 
Secretaries: 
George A. Goddard. 
Other Members of the Executive Committee: 
Charles P. Putnam, M. D. 
Mrs. L. E. Caswell. 
Mrs. James M. Brown. 
Mrs. James T. Fields. 
Rev. Frederic B. Allen. 
Greely S. Curtis. 
Registration Committee: 
Edward Jackson. 
Miss Annette P. Rogers. 
B. O. Kinnear, M. D. 
Mrs. S. D. Warren. 
William R. Robeson. 
Miss Charlotte H. Guild, 
Henry S. Grew. 
Charles J. Morrill. 
Samuel W. Hodges. 
Weight & Totter lB Post Office Square, Boston. CLASSIFIED CONTENTS. 
[Note.—Two Indexes have been carefully prepared,—a General Alphabetical Index, 
page 154, and an Index to Kinds of Aid, page 173. We ask that the latter Index be 
used patiently and carefully, so that application may be made only to the proper society, 
thereby saving much delay and annoyance to officials, to persons needing aid, and to 
those who ask aid for them. Directions given to the poor should always be written, 
so that they can show them.] 
PAGE. 
PREFACE, . . . V 
DIRECTORY OF CHARITABLE AND BENEFICENT ORGANIZATIONS, 1 
Associated Charities, 3 
Class I.—lndustrial, 5 
Free Employment Bureaus, 5 
Industrial Training and Charity Work 6 
Class ll.—Government Aid, 12 
City, . 12 
County, 13 
State, 13 
Class lll.—Reliee (various kinds), Irrespective op Class, ... 17 
United States, 15 
Class IV.—Relief for Special Classes, . , . . 24 
Class V.—Aid for Foreigners, 30 
Class YI.—Sick and Defective, 33 
Ambulance Service, 33 
Free Nurses, Rides, etc., 33 
General Hospitals, 34 
Special Hospitals, 36 
General Dispensaries, V. • • 40 
Special Dispensaries, 42 
Blind 42 
Deaf and Dumb, 43 
Idiotic and Feeble-Minded, 44 
Insane, ..... 44 CLASSIFIED CONTENTS. 
DlRECTORY.—Continued. page. 
Class YlL—Flower and Fruit Missions, 46 
Class YIIL— Homes, 47 
Almshouses, 47 
Homes for Adults, 48 
Homes for Children, 53 
Improved Dwellings for the Poor, 60 
Class IX.—Reform, 61 
Adult Convicts, • ... 61 
Fallen Women, 62 
Children, 63 
Temperance, 64 
Literature, 66 
Class X.—Humane, 67 
Class Xl.—Mutual Benefit (chiefly money), 70 
For all Classes, • . . . 70 
Class Xll.—Educational and Religious, 80 
For Special Classes and Foreigners, 74 
Colleges, Schools, Libraries and Museums, 80 
Missionaries, Tract Societies, etc., 84 
Free Chapels, 85 
For Special Classes, 86 
Police, 110 
Churches, 93 
Parks and Squares, 110 
Cemeteries, 112 
SELECT LIST OF BOOKS AND PAPERS ON CHARITABLE WORK, . 114 
LEGAL SUGGESTIONS 119 
HEALTH HINTS, 135 
COST OF FUNERALS, . 147 
RULES AND SUGGESTIONS FOR VISITORS OF THE ASSOCIATED 
CHARITIES, 148 
GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX, 154 
INDEX TO KINDS OF AID, 173 PREFACE. 
The Associated Charities of Boston publish this book as a part of their 
"Work of bringing our charitable agencies into relations of closer co-opera- 
tion, and especially of aiding our citizens to use all these agencies more 
readily. 
This book shows what a multitude of noble charities Boston contains, and 
may bring into view some of the gaps existing between them. Many of 
these gaps may be closed without new institutions, by the judicious enlarge- 
ment of the field of work of existing agencies, which now do not quite 
touch. 
The best charity can only flow from a union of science and sympathy, 
each at its best. 
The science of charity insists on a thorough study of the causes of want, 
and of the means of its removal and prevention, as well as its relief and 
especially on thorough organization in large cities, where many agencies 
are at work. 
Charity must do four things ; 
I. Relieve worthy need, promptly, fittingly and tenderly. 
11. Prevent unwise alms to the unworthy. 
111. Raise into independence every needy person, where this is possible. 
IV. Make sure that no children grow up to be paupers. 
Relief, detection, elevation, and prevention are all essential parts of a 
complete system. 
Both public and private relief are given so largely, public relief by the 
Overseers of the Poor, and private relief by the Provident Association and 
probably a hundred other agencies, besides innumerable individuals, that, 
merely for the purpose of adding to the relief fund, no new society would 
have been needed. 
Relief. VI 
PREFACE. 
Registration. 
But to organize a System of Registration, as a Clearing House of all 
relief given by all agencies and persons, was to meet a need deeply felt, 
and to add a means of exact knowledge for all workers among the poor. 
The Registration Office is Room 41, Charity Building, Chardon Street. 
It is in perfect working order. Its work is twofold : gathering information 
and giving it. 
First It collects reports of all relief, by daily, weekly or monthly re- 
turns, and posts them upon cards kept in alphabetical order. The returns 
from each society or person are put on a separate card; and all the cards, 
varying from one to six, relating to one family are fastened together by a 
hasp, which easily opens to admit a new card. 
Secondly. The other branch of our work is even more important than 
the first, or rather it gives to the whole its chief value. The office mails to 
any society or ‘person, who reports relief to any case, a prompt reply—called 
a duplication—stating who else is relieving the same case and what other 
relief is given. Each society and person, who relieves a family, is entitled 
to know, and ought to know, what other relief the family gets from other 
sources. So only can you find out fraud and stop excessive alms, and 
decide wisely on the kind and quantity of relief to continue. Sometimes 
too much relief is given, sometimes too little. The essence of the plan is 
to secure exact knowledge of the facts, and so to add to the judgment and 
joy of the gift. 
This feature of our registration work is believed to be peculiar to Boston, 
and it well deserves the study of all other large cities. Few if any per- 
sons have failed to be convinced of the wisdom and helpfulness of this 
office, after reporting relief and receiving promptly back a full statement 
of all other relief to the same case. The number of private persons who 
register is rapidly increasing, as the advantages of the information they 
receive are becoming known and appreciated. Of course the number 
of those who do not register is still large, and a few societies still decline. 
It is hoped they will soon see the advantages of the system, both to 
themselves and especially for the poor, and will aid to make it complete. 
The welfare of the whole needy class must be the controlling consideration. 
Over 20,000 cards are now on file, all strictly secret, except for legitimate 
purposes of deciding about further relief or detecting imposture. The fear 
of publicity is of course unfounded. 
Our District Conferences aim to make the facts collected so complete that 
all cases may be fairly classified : PREFACE. 
I. Cases worthy of relief. 
Permanent. 
(a.) Orphans with no parent, or only one parent unable to support 
them. 
(b.) Aged persons who are unable to support themselves, 
(c.) Incurable sick, crippled or deformed. 
(d.) Temporary illness or accident, where relief may carry a 
family over a hard time and prevent them falling into pau- 
perism. 
Temporary. 
Cases needing work and to be relieved only when work 
CANNOT BE HAD. 
(a.) Persons out of work but able and ready to work if it can be had. 
(b.) Persons with insufficient work, able and ready to do more. 
(c.) Widows with young children, ready to do any kind of work 
consistent with family cares. 
(d ) The shiftless, who are disposed to shirk work, but who may 
be induced by patient persuasion and influence of visitor 
to become industrious; the improvident, who may be taught 
thrift and foresight by the same means; and the intem- 
perate, who are yet not hopelessly so, and may be reformed 
by eai'nest and devoted endeavor, and a hope of work con- 
tingent on good conduct. 
Cases unworthy of relief. 
(a.) Those who have property. 
(b.) Families with able-bodied parents able to support them—or 
with adult able-bodied children able to support them. 
(c.) The shiftless, who are too idle to work, and who steadily re- 
fuse it when offered. 
(d.) The improvident, who squander their means, earning good 
wages in some months, and willing to beg in other months, 
and who are persistent in refusing to improve. 
(e.) The vicious, who drink or gamble away their means, and who 
are found hopelessly bad after attempts to reform. 
f‘) Confirmed paupers, who prefer to live on alms. 
(g.) Tramps, living worthless lives and too often thieves. PREFACE. 
For the First Class “ Worthy of Relief,” a large measure of relief is 
often wanted. 
The Second Class of cases need the work of a well-selected visitor. 
Here especially is the work to be done of raising needy persons into self- 
support 
The Third Class of cases need a firmer treatment. Reasonable firmness 
in cutting off relief must often precede any desire of any such family to 
become virtuous and self-supporting. In many of these cases, a visitor 
can be of great help. 
Families or persons who have fallen into want, usually need two 
things:— 
First. Relief from their pressing wants—food, if hungry; fuel, if cold ; 
or clothing, if naked. This is the work of relief. 
Secondly. They need a long, steady, patient pull, by a wise strong 
hand, up onto solid land. This is the work in which the Associated Chari- 
ties ask the cordial co-operation of every Christian man and woman in the 
city. 
The new society recognizes fully the divine charity of alms, and by its 
“ Registration ” hopes to organize relief into a system, by which the worthy 
shall receive fuller and more fitting help. 
Not Alms but a Friend. 
But alms are not the whole -of charity. The charity of friendship is 
equally divine. The gift of one’s self is sometimes more than one’s purse. 
“ Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give I thee: .... Rise 
up and walk.” 
This city and every other city should awake to the work of helping the 
needy to become independent, and especially of making very sure that 
children shall not grow up to be paupers. 
This work is of course too infinite for any society to do. A system is 
wanted by which all good men and women in this city may do their part, 
each that little that lies nearest. The machinery of civilization grinds to 
powder multitudes of the feeble. Mere political economy, always harsh 
and often false, leaves to sink those who cannot swim, Christianity begins 
to whisper through the world, that all relations of life need to be filled with 
profounder thought and wiser sympathy and real help, from all those 
who are strong to all who are weak. Machinery and political economy 
are both a curse, unless both are governed by a higher law. PREFACE. 
IX 
Alms are not always good: “ Aid a man so often or so unwisely as to sap 
his manhood, his self-respect, his self-reliance, and charity has left a curse 
where it came to bless.” 
Experience has proved that alms can be most judiciously given by trained 
visitors; and that the friendly relations of a friendly visitor, aiming to help 
a family to gain its independence, are often spoiled if the family hope to 
get larger alms by exaggerating their needs. 
For these reasons the Visitors of the Associated Charities are prohibited 
from giving alms on their own impulse, except, of course, in those ex- 
tremely rare cases of immediate distress which overrule all law. The 
deliberate vote of a Conference may decide what relief is wise, either for a 
visitor to give, who then becomes a private almsgiver, or for the Overseers 
of the Poor, or the Provident, or any other society; all of which agencies 
will give just so much weight to the vote as they deem fit, and as experi- 
ence suggests. 
The experience of the first year's work of our Associated Charities justi- 
fies us in calling attention to this fact, or rather this great discovery, that a 
gentleman or lady will, in a surprising proportion of cases, discern means 
to help a family into independence, if he or she goes into their homes and 
learns the whole truth, what the various members of the family can do or 
can be made to do; going there not only not to give alms, but prohibited from 
doing so, and therefore forced to study how to aid the family towards self- 
support. 
It is idle to enumerate the causes which can be removed by the counsel, 
the cheer, the encouragement, the sympathy, the brains, of a gentleman or 
lady full of the strength and joy of life. 
No one will believe it till he tries, or doubt it when he has tried. Money, 
too, can often be wisely used,— sometimes in teaching a trade, or furnishing 
a sewing-machine or tools, or in getting or giving work, or sometimes in 
making work, often in moving a wretched family from some den of disease 
into sunnier rooms, often in aiding sickly persons to regain their health. 
“ Not alms, but a Friend,” is our motto. This is the corner-stone of the 
New Charity— 
Wherever any family has fallen so low as to need relief, 
SEND TO THEM AT LEAST ONE FRIEND, A PATIENT, TRUE, SYMPATHIZING, 
EIRM FRIEND, TO DO FOR THEM ALL THAT A FRIEND CAN DO TO DIS- 
COVER AND REMOVE THE CAUSES OF THEIR DEPENDENCE, AND TO HELP 
THEM UP INTO INDEPENDENT SELF-SUPPORT, AND SELF-RESPECT. 
Much of the very best charity work —in this direction of raising needy X 
PREFACE. 
persons into independence does not need new visitors, but can best be 
done in the existing relations of life. 
A few words to all who will listen ; 
I. To every gentleman and lady who has any business relations with any 
poor family,— No longer be content with giving alms to relieve their 
needs; but make it your special task to see how you can raise that one family 
into independence. Visit their home, know the children, what each can 
do, cannot do, and yet ought to do and can be made to do. Make a thorough, 
friendly diagnosis of the causes of want, and then set to work to remove 
them. A year or two, or a single year, perhaps a month, often accomplishes 
marvellous results. 
11. To every employer of labor,— pardon the suggestion that you should 
learn the circumstances of your employes. Teach, encourage, and hold 
fast those who struggle to support large and needy families, even if in dull 
times you have to make work. 
111. To every church and minister,— besides the alms which you give, 
sometimes too freely for the good of your poor, always have a strong com- 
mittee to see how every one of them can be helped, if possible, to regain 
independence. 
This work of helping people to be self-supporting is full of interest, but 
very hard. Here, as elsewhere, experience and study and devotion are 
needed for success. 
District Conferences, exactly for these reasons, are organized in the dif- 
ferent wards. A paid agent is found to be essential to the best work, not to 
give alms, which relieving agents give, not to give spiritual instruction, 
which ministers and missionaries give, but whose especial duty it is (it 
should be his work for life) to learn how families can be helped up out of all 
the varied causes of want, into permanent independence. This should be his 
main work and constant study. A large corps of visitors should be working 
in the same ward, for the same end. He should be the agent, ally, helper, 
and adviser of each and all of them, and of every person in the city who 
wishes to work in any way to help any needy person in the agent’s 
ward. 
Conferences aim chiefly at two things. First, to find a friendly visitor to 
establish friendly relations with every needy family in their ward ; second, 
to study and gather experience how men and women, boys and girls, may be 
best aided to become independent. The power to help wisely is well worth PREFACE. 
XI 
a weekly meeting of a few experienced persons in every ward. A study of 
ways and means is needed to make charity effective. 
One last word to those who are too lazy to get information before they 
give,— You are the last hope of the professional beggar. Stop the pennies, 
dimes, even dollars which reward his art, giving him what he asks for bread, 
but too often spends in a drunken carouse, plunging his family deeper into 
distress. Mendicancy must die away when the supplies on which it fattens 
are cut off. 
Picture the return of a beggar into a crowded tenement house, with a 
handful of money, while honest men and women have worked hard and 
earned less, or perhaps have sought work in vain. What worse poison can 
taint the lives of the swarming children in that house than to see that beg- 
ging pays better than work ? 
We call especial attention to the article on Legal Suggestions, prepared 
by Hon. George S. Hale, who kindly adds this to his many previous labors 
and studies in the cause of wisely organized charity. His loan of the 
Papers of the Commission on the Treatment of the Poor, collected from 
the different charities and churches, has been a great help in this work. 
The article on Health Hints, by Dr. Hamilton Osgood, is also well worthy 
of the study of every visitor among the poor. Visitors can often be of great 
service, if they know how to advise families wisely on these most important 
matters of health. 
Free use has been made of the Charity Directories of London, Philadel- 
phia and New York, which we desire fully to acknowledge. 
We have tried to make this work complete and accurate, by applying 
directly to each organization for information. Should serious errors be 
found, they will be largely due to the neglect of those to whom application 
was made. The use has been kindly given to us of the “ Medical Register 
for New England,” by Francis H. Brown, M.D., of “King’s Hand-Book of 
Boston,” by Moses King, and of the proof of the Boston Directory for 1880 by 
Sampson, Davenport & Co., thus filling many gaps in our work. To them, 
and to the many organizations which have freely responded to our frequent 
questionings, we return most sincere thanks. 
The Registi'ation Committee is entitled to the credit of having organized 
so admirably the Bureau of Registration. They appointed, many months 
ago, a sub-committee for this manual, under whose supervision Miss 
Frances A. Smith has collected and prepared the data for the Directory of 
Charities. PREFACE. 
We invite suggestions upon any of the contents of this book, and espe- 
cially corrections of any errors, and new information about the various 
charities in the hope of making any future edition more useful and 
exact. 
ROBERT TREAT PAINE, Jr., 
President of the Associated Charities of Boston. 
July 1, 1880. 
Send all communications to the Associated Charities, Room 41, Charity 
Building, Boston. DIRECTORY OF CHARITIES. 
SEND ALL CHANGES, 
CORRECTIONS and ADDITIONS 
To Room 41, Charity Building, 
BOSTON, MASS., 
In order that a Directory of Charities, corrected to date, may be kept there for 
the use of any who wish to consult it. 
PEICK OP" DIRECTORY, 50 CENTS. 
BBICIG BY MAIL, - - - - 55 CENTS. DIRECTORY 
OF THE 
Charitable and Beiefieent Opkatiois 
OF BOSTON. ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF BOSTON. 
(18 79. 
Central Office and Registration, Room 41, Charity Building, 
Ghardon Street, Corner Hawkins, Ward VII. 
Apply to Registrar, Miss Z. D. Smith, 9to 5, Saturdays 9 to 2; or to 
the District Offices:— 
East Boston (Wards I. and II.), Room 13, Winthrop Block, Maverick Registration; 
Square, Swat., Mrs. M. W. Currier, 3to 5, except Saturdays 10 to 12. cases investigat- 
r edjnade self-sup- 
Ward VI., 39 North Bennet Street, 12 to 1, except Saturdays. porting whenever 
possible, and aid 
Ward VII., Room 51, Charity Building, Supt., Miss F. A. Smith, 12 obtained for those 
tn o ’ 1 unable to earn 
support; friendly 
Ward VIII., Room 49, Charity Building, Supt., Miss H. F. Stanley, visiting. 
9 to 12, 
Ward IX., 129 Charles Street, Supt., Mrs. George Allen, 2 to 3. 
Wards X., XI., XII., 44 Fayette Street, Supt, H. F. Stow, 3 to 5, ex- 
cept Saturdays. 
South Boston (Wards XIII., XIV., XV.), apply to the Bulletin of the 
Associated Charities, Post-Office, South Boston. 
Ward XYL, Warrenton Street Chapel, Tuesday and Thursday morn- 
ings. 
Wards XVII., XYIII., 1482 Washington Street, 10 to 1. 
Roxbury (Wards XIX., XX., XXI., XXII.), 116 Roxbury Street. 
Dorchester (Ward XXIV.), Robinson’s Block, Field’s Corner, Supt., 
Mrs. Chas. L. Brigham, 9 to 12, daily from November Ist to May Ist, 
and on Wednesdays from May Ist to November Ist. 
AIMS. 
I .—To secure the concurrent and harmonious action of the different 
charities of Boston, in order, 
lI.—To raise the needy above the need of relief, prevent begging and 
imposition, and diminish pauperism. 4 
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. 
lII.—To encourage thrift, self-dependence and industry through friendly 
intercourse, advice and sympathy; and to aid the poor to help them- 
selves, rather than to help them by alms. 
A Registry of Applicants for Charitable Aid, with a record of what is 
given to and what is known of them, is kept in the Central Office. This 
information is disclosed only for the benefit of the persons registered, or 
to detect imposition. Individuals or societies, stating that they have been 
applied to for relief by any person, will receive prompt reports of aid 
given to the same person, with other information, so that they can decide 
more wisely what relief, if any, to continue. 
District conferences are established in all the districts above named, 
composed of representatives and visitors of all charitable organizations 
and churches, working in the district, and a few other persons who are 
elected. Each conference sees that every application for aid, in its dis- 
trict, is thoroughly investigated; studies how applicants for relief can be 
raised into independence, and makes them self-supporting whenever pos- 
sible; obtains aid for applicants, unable to earn support, from the appro- 
priate sources; organizes for these purposes a corps of volunteer visitors, 
only a small number of cases being assigned to each; and holds weekly 
meetings for the discussion and distribution of cases. 
The Council consists of three delegates from each district conference, 
and three from each general charitable association connected with this 
society, and of persons elected, not exceeding fifty in number; of the 
Mayor, the State Superintendents of Indoor and Outdoor Poor, and the 
Inspector of State Charities; of three Overseers of the Poor, one Director 
of the Public Institutions, one Police Commissioner, and a Trustee of the 
City Hospital; of the Superintendent of Police and the City Physician. 
The Council has general supervision of the registration, of the district 
conference, of the duties of volunteer visitors, of the funds, and of meas- 
ures for the attainment of the objects of the society. Pres., Robert 
Treat Paine, Jr., 16 Pemberton Square; Sec’y, Geo. A. Goddard, 50 
Equitable Building; Treas., E, E. Pratt, U. S. Sub-Treasury, Post- 
Office Building. INDUSTRIAL—FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS. 
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CLASS I. INDUSTRIAL. 
. [The marginal notes do not give a synopsis of all the work done by an organ- 
ization, but of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of 
the page.] 
free EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS: 
BOSTON INDUSTRIAL TEMPORARY HOME, page 52. Men and women. 
BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN UNION, page 88. Men and women. 
JAMAICA PLAIN EMPLOYMENT AND TEMPORARY Men and women. 
RELIEF SOCIETY, page 19. 
CHARLESTOWN FREE DISPENSARY AND HOSPITAL, Men, women and 
page 41. children' 
INDUSTRIAL AID SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION Men, women and 
OF PAUPERISM (1835, incor. 1847). Apply at Rooms 25 to chlldren- 
-28, Charity Building, Chardon St., Ward VII., between 9 and 
2; office open till 5. Address all communications to Gen. 
Agent, Edward Winslow. 
Aims to prevent pauperism by helping men and women to find work; 
sending them where they are needed, or returning them to their friends; 
and by endeavoring to reform the intemperate and vicious the intem- 
perate, by placing them on vessels or farms, where they cannot get liquor. 
Women placed at domestic service, as housekeepers, nurses, seamstresses, 
°r at day and factory work, etc.; men and boys as farm and factory hands, 
Mechanics, servants, gardeners, common laborers, etc. This society has 
an organization for the employment of men in cleaning ice and snow from 
railroads. Light work (such as gathering fruit and vegetables, and weed- 
lrU) is provided for children, who are transported to the country, espe- 
cially during vacation. Assisted in establishing the North End Branch, 
Jwston Cooking School, page 10. Yearly expenses about $4,000. About 
L7OO persons provided with transient and permanent work, yearly, about 
1.060 males and 673 females—of the latter, about half in the country and 
~alf in the city. Report published annually in October. Pres., Hon. 
Ihonaas C. Amory; Sec’y, Charles T. Canfield; Treas., Charles F. Wyman, 
J<’ India Sq.; Gen. Agent, Edward Winslow; assistants, male depart- 
ment, N. Davies Cotton and S. R. Miller; assistant, female department, 
Miss N. J. Clark. 
boston young men’s Christian association, Me... 
Page 88. 
. ROXBURY YOUNG MEN’S FREE UNION, page 87. Me. 6 
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND CHARITY WORK. 
Disabled soldiers. MASSACHUSETTS EMPLOYMENT BUREAU FOR DIS- 
ABLED SOLDIERS (I860). Office 34 Pemberton Sq , Ward 
X. Apply to Supt., D. O. Balcom, BA.m.to 4 p. M., or by mail. 
Obtains employment for disabled U. S. soldiers of the Rebellion, and 
helps them, if possible, to self-support; gives transportation to any place 
where work is found; informs benevolent individuals or societies about 
needy soldiers, investigating unknown cases. 
Controls the SOLDIERS’ MESSENGER CORPS (1865) ,-24 disabled 
soldiers, each having a permanent station in the business portion of the 
city. In 1878, expended $3,373; employment given to 589 persons; State 
grant, $3,000. Treas., H. S. Russell. 
Men. Convicts. MASS. SOCIETY FOR AIDING DISCHARGED CON- 
VICTS, page 61. 
Women. BOFFIN’S BOWER, page 29. 
women. BOSTON YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA- 
TION, page 92. 
nurses'113 women DIRECTORY FOR NURSES.—AppIy to Dr. Edwin H. Brig- 
ham, 19 Boylston Pie., for nurses, satisfactorily recommended 
and ready when called for; rubbers for Massage treatment 
Employers and supplied. Employer’s fee, $1; from BP. M. to 8 A. M,, $2. 
fee* IC‘UI & pay Applicant’s fee, 60 cts. 
Many physicians keep lists of nurses, especially wet nurses, and are 
always glad to learn of good ones. 
Wet nurses find places from the Temporary Home (page 21), and can 
be procured at Lying-in Hosp. (page 37.) 
Women. TEMPORARY HOME FOR WORKING WOMEN, page 51. 
women. WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL UNION, 
page 91. 
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND CHARITY 
WORK: 
The wind. See BLIND, page 42. 
Men woodyard. OVERSEERS OF THE POOR (Wayfarers’ Lodge), page 22. 
Men. Woodyard. PROVIDENT WOODYARD (1874), Foundry St., South 
Boston, Ward XIII; Office, Broadway Bridge. Apply to the 
Boston Provident Association, Room 32, Charity Building, 
Chardon St., 9 to 5 in winter; summer, 9 to 1. 
Gives men temporary work in sawing wood; paid at 10 cts. an hour by 
proceeds of sales to the public (best quality, at as low rates as elsewhere). 
Self-supporting. Proprietor, George Abbot James; Agent, A. C. Wynd- 
ham. 
Men. Woodyard. UNION FOR CHRISTIAN WORK, ROXBURY, page 8(1. 
Boys. Farming. BOSTON ASYLUM AND FARM SCHOOL FOR INDI- 
GENT BOYS, page 53. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND CHARITY WORK. 
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BOSTON CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY, page 64. Boys and girls. 
NORTH END INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, page 9. fe%Sworkarpen’ 
„ HOUSE FOR THE REFORMATION OF JUVENILE OF- ?<%*■ Com^u 
PENDERS, page 63. y- 
STATE REFORM SCHOOL, WESTBOROUGH, page 63. spul“s- 
WORCESTER FREE INSTITUTE (1865), Worcester, 
Mass. For the benefit of the legislative appropriation of Mas- 1 
sachusetts, apply to the secretary of the State Board of Edu- 
cation, State House, Boston. 
Offers a good education based on mathematics, living languages, physi- 
cal sciences and drawing, and sufficient practical familiarity with some 
branch of applied science to secure to its graduates a livelihood. Specially 
Prepares mechanics, civil engineers, chemists or designers. Candidates 
must be 16 years or older, of good character; a previous high school 
course is desirable. Pres, of Trustees, Hon. Stephen Salisbury, LL. D.; 
Sec’y, Rev. Edw. H. Hall; Treas., Philip L. Moen; Principal, Charles 
0. Thompson. 
BOSTON INDUSTRIAL TEMPORARY HOME, page 52. Men and women. 
7 A ° Woodyard, sew- 
ing, laundry, 
farming, &c. 
HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, DEER ISLAND, page 61. Men mj^women. 
LOWELL INSTITUTE, page 80. Men and women; 
MASSACHUSETTS NORMAL ART SCHOOL, page 80. Med““dalw“: 
ing. 
See ADULT CONVICTS, page 61. Adult convicts. 
STATE WORKHOUSE, page 13. 
sory. 
BOSTON PROVIDENT ASSOCIATION, page 22. sewing fur- 
BOSTON SEWING CIRCLE (1861), 30 Charity Building, Cut-out garments 
Chardon St., Ward VII. Apply to one of the managers. vate individuals 
„ and societies, 
cuts out garments, which arc given by ladies to their own poor women 
to make. The ladies themselves pay for the sewing. The clothing is dis- 
tributed among the ladies who cut for the circle, and nearly all the chari- 
table societies of the city. In the season, 1879-80, expended about 
|>2,300, and cut over 10,000 garments. Pres., Miss I. E. Loring; Treas., 
Mrs. J. C. Hooker. 
„ ARLINGTON ST. CHURCH LADIES’ UNION AND Women. Sewing 
CHANNING CIRCLE, page 97. 
CHAPEL OF THE EVANGELISTS, page 100, Women- Sewing‘ 
CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, page 98. Women- Sewin«- 
CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, page 101. Women‘ Sewing- 
CHURCH OF THE UNITY, page 98, Women- Bewine- 8 
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND CHARITY WORK. 
Women. Sewing. CLOTHING CLUB, HOUSE OF THE GOOD SAMA- 
RITAN, page 38. 
women. Sewing. THE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY OF VISITORS AMONG 
THE POOR OF BOSTON (1875, incor. 1877), Room 48, 
Charity Building, Chardon St., Ward VII. Apply to Supi., 
Mrs. Jane Pitblado, between 10 and 5. Saturdays, 10 to 12 ; 
summer, 9.30 to 1, except Saturdays. All applicants must 
reside in Ward VII. 
Aims to improve the moral and physical condition of the poor by 
personal visiting, by teaching habits of temperance and cleanliness, by 
giving sewing to poor women from a work-room, and by finding employ- 
ment. Fine sewing department, self-supporting, gives work to about 25 
women. The coarse sewing is not promised for any length of time, but 
is given only until other work may be found; it is not given to women 
with able-bodied husbands, except on special vote of the directors. Per- 
sistent instruction in sewing given to the incompetent and careless. Gar- 
ments sold to poor women, and to ladies for charitable distribution; much 
clothing is given to hospitals and the sick poor. About $2,500 spent 
yearly, and more than 100 families aided. This society co-operates with 
and furnishes visitors for the Ward VII. Conference of the Associated 
Charities. Report published annually in April. Pres., Mrs. James 
Lodge; Sec’y, Mrs. B. S. Calef; Treas., R. S. Fay, 37 Franklin St. 
Women. Sewing. EMMANUEL CHURCH, DORCAS COMMITTEE, page 101. 
Women. Sewing. FIRST CHURCH EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY, page 95. 
women. Sewing. FIRST PARISH BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, page 99. 
women, sewing. HOLLIS ST. CHURCH CHARITABLE SOCIETY, page 99. 
Women. Sewing. KING’S CHAPEL EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY, page 99. 
Women. Sewing. LADIES’ RELIEF AGENCY, page 23. 
Women. Sewing. NEEDLE WOMAN’S FRIEND SOCIETY (1847, incor. 
1851). Apply at the salesroom, Room 9,149 A, Tremont St., 
Ward X., from 8 to 5. 
Gives employment, with adequate compensation, to indigent females. 
Orders received at the salesroom for underclothing for ladies and chil- 
dren, and house-keeping articles, which are made under the supervision 
of the agents, by skilled sempstresses recommended by members of the 
society. A limited number of unskilled workwomen receive work of a 
coarser quality by applying on Fridays. The garments are sold almost 
at cost of material. Fine and coarse work constantly for sale. About 
$2,500 are paid to women for tine work, yearly; and over $5OO for coarse 
work. Property about $33,000. Twenty-four Lady Managers. Pres., 
Mrs. F. A. Brooks; Treas., Chas. G. White; Sec’y, Miss Sarah D. Gore, 
74 Marlborough St. 
Women. Sewing. ROXBURY FEMALE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, FIRST 
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY, page 99. 
Women. Sewing. ST. JAMES EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY (Roxbury), page 
102. 
Women. Sewing. ST. JOHN’S CHURCH (Tremont St.) EMPLOYMENT SO- 
CIETY, page 102. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND CHARITY WORK. 
9 
ST. PAUL’S GUILD, page 102. Women- Sewing- 
SECOND CHURCH (Boylston St.) SEWING CIRCLE,Women- sowing, 
page 100. 
SISTERS OF ST. MARGARET, CHURCH OF THE AD-Women. Sewing. 
VENT, page 101. 
TRINITY CHURCH EMPLOYMENT SOCIETIES, page Women. Sewing. 
102. 
UNION FOR CHRISTIAN WORK (Roxbury), page 86. Women. Sewing. 
WARD VI. WORKROOMS (1879), 39 No. Rennet St. Ap- women. Sewing, 
ply to Matron, Mrs. E, L. Holman, 9 to 5, except Saturday. 
Gives sewing to temperate, worthy, truthful, needy women, who are 
willing to be taught; and pays fifty cents a week in food, fuel and cloth- 
ing. Teaches them to sew well and to get work outside when competent. 
Encourages them to deposit savings with the Matron. Bach one is visited 
in her home by a visitor of the Associated Charities. The ready-made 
garments are kept for sale. Supported by King’s Chapel. Executive 
Committee of fourteen persons. 
WARD XVI. WORKROOMS (1879), Basement of Warren-Women. Sewing, 
ton St. Chapel. 
Furnishes sewing to a limited number of women, who are recommended 
by the Ward XYI. Conference of the Associated Charities. List always 
full. Open Thursdays, 9.30 to 1. The clothing made is sold at the rooms. 
ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, page 102. Sewing SchooL 
NORTH END INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL (1880), 39 No. Ben- Womenanw, 
net St etc.-, b’°ys, carl 
penter’s work. 
Classes for women and girls in catting, making and mending garments, 
machine-stitching, dress-making, knitting, &c.; for boys in the use of 
carpenters’ tools, with a carpenter as a teacher. Pupils must be recom- 
mended by the Associated Charities. 
BOSTON NORTH END MISSION, page 23. SgVeSoof'18’ 
INDUSTRIAL AID SOC. FOR PREVENTION OF PAU- ir ls’ 
PERISM, page 6. 
TRINITY CHURCH, page 102 nschooi!rlB 
BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF CHURCHES, page 85. ™ *ewine 
CHAPEL OF THE EVANGELISTS, page 100. Girls’ sewing 
school. 
CHILDREN’S MISSION TO THE CHILDREN OF THE Gins’sewing 
DESTITUTE, page 59. &Clo° ’ 
CHURCH OF OUR FATHER (E. Boston), page 98. ?Jhooi“e- 
times sewing to 
women. 
CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, page 101. 
times sewing to 
women. 10 
INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND CHARITY WORK. 
Women. Draw- SIMMONS FEMALE COLLEGE, page 90. 
ing, designing, 
telegraphy, etc. 
Women. Nurses BOSTON TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES, MASS, 
trained. QEN. hOSP., page 36. 
Women. Nurses TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES, CITY HOSP., page 35. 
trained. 
Women. Nurses TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES, NEW ENG. HOSP. 
trained. FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN, page 38. 
women, sewing, TEMPORARY HOME FOR WORKING WOMEN, page 
laundry-work, 
etc. 
Fallen women. See FALLEN WOMEN, page 62. 
intemperate NEW ENG. HOME FOR INTEMPERATE WOMEN, page 
women. Sewing 
and laundry- t)'-’' 
Women and girls. NORTH END LAUNDRY (1880), 39 No. Bennet St., apply 
Laundry-work to |^rs E, E. Caswell, at the Laundry, 11 to 12 daily. 
taught. J J 
Purely educational. Open from 10 a. m. to 4 v. m. Mondays: pri- 
vate pupils, 12£ cents an hour. Tuesdays: working-people, shop-girls, 
etc., 5 cents an hour for the use of the Laundry for their own convenience; 
and Tuesday evenings for the same class who cannot use it .by day. 
Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, poor women are taught free. Ap- 
plicants are admitted on the recommendation of the Associated Charities, 
and are visited by the Matron at least once a month. 
Women and Kiris. BOSTON YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA- 
C'ooklng and TTON nafrp Q9 
housework LIUiN, page VZ. 
taucht. 
Women and giris. BOSTON COOKING SCHOOL (1878), 158 Tremont St., 
cooking school. \yar(] x Apply between 9 and 4. 
Makes better and more economical cooks, and introduces more econ- 
omical and wholesome food into the family. Lessons are given from 9 
to 12 and 2 to 4 daily to girls and women, who will make practical use of 
the instruction. Pupils prepare and cook the food themselves. 12 les- 
sons in the least expensive kinds of food, in the most simple manner, 
bread, meat, vegetables, etc., f3. 12 lessons for greater variety of ma- 
terial and more care in preparation, $6. Thursday morning "class for 
cooks, $1 a lesson. Food sold at low prices. 
BRANCH SCHOOL (Fob. 1880), 39 No. Bennet St., Ward VI. Free 
to poor women recommended by the Associated Charities, daily, except 
Saturdays, at 2 i>. m, ; to school-girls, on similar recommendation, 
Saturday, 9.30 a. m.; demonstration lessons on Monday evenings. 
Season closes May 15th. 
In charge of a Committee of the Women’s Educational Association. 
Chairman, Mrs. S. T. Hooper, Westminster Ave., Roxbury; Sec'y, 
Mrs. K. G. Wells, 155 Boylston St.; Treas., Miss Emma Ware, Milton 
Hill. 
Girls. Trained in BOSTON NORTH END MISSION, page 23. 
housework. INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND CHARITY WORK. 
11 
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (Dorchester), page [^‘ssew“edin 
54. 
HOUSE FOR REFORMATION OF JUVENILE OFFEND 
ERS, page 63. work compul- 
x 0 sory. 
STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, page 64. 
mg, housework, 
etc., compulsory. 12 
GOVERNMENT AID—CITY. 
CLASS lI.—GOVERNMENT AID. 
(The marginal notes do not give a synopsis of all the work done by an organi- 
zation, but of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of the 
page.) 
CITY: 
soup. CITY SOUP, page 17. 
rood, fuel, modi- OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, page 20. 
cines and money. x ° 
Relief of police- POLICE CHARITABLE FUND, page 25. 
men and families. 
Trust money for POOR WIDOWS’ FUND, page 28. 
widows and sick 
people. 
Trust loans to FRANKLIN FUND, page 25. 
young married x ° 
artificers. 
7ea-yaccffianonnd CITY PHYSICIAN, page 69. 
Baths. PUBLIC BATHS, page 68. 
Hospital for both BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL, page 34. 
sexes. x ° 
smaii-pox hospi- SMALL POX HOSPITAL, page 40. 
tal for both sexes. 
public institu- BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS 
tlolls’ (1857), 30 Pemberton Sq., Ward X. Twelve members. Pres,, 
Samuel Little ; Clerk, William H. Hodgkins. 
Has charge of the 
Insane hospital. BOSTON LUNATIC HOSPITAL, page 44. 
Almshouses. CITY ALMSHOUSES, page 47. 
Penal. HOUSE OF INDUSTRY, page 61. 
Reformatory. HOUSE FOR THE REFORMATION OF JUVENILE OFFEND- 
ERS, page 63. 
Penal. HOUSE OF CORRECTION, page 13. 
Sentenced and MARCELLA STREET HOME, page 53. 
pauper boys. 
Pauper girls. . SCHOOL FOR PAUPER GIRLS, page 54. 
Truants. ' TRUANT SCHOOL DEPARTMENT, page 63. 
Public schools. BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS, page 81. 
Puwiic Library. BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, page 83. 
Truant office. TRUANT OFFICE, 30 Pemberton Sq., Ward X. Apply 
between 12 and 1. GOVERNMENT AID—STATE 
13 
BOARD OF HEALTH, 32 Pemberton Sq., Room 7, Ward Board* Health. 
X. Apply for abatement of nuisances, 9to 5. nuisances. 
HEALTH DEPARTMENT, 32 Pemberton Sq., basement, Health■ Depart- 
Ward X. Apply to Supt. of Health, Geo. W. Fornstall, m 
against city scav- 
complaints against the city scavengers. engers. 
INSPECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE OFFICES, City Hall 
basement, Ward X. Apply to B. D. Burley, 9tolo or to 3. 
INSPECTOR OF PAWNBROKERS, City Hall basement, inspectoi-ot 
Ward X. Apply to fm. H. McCausland, 9t0100r2 to 3. 
COUNTY: 
SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL, Charles St., Ward IX. Jail- 
For persons awaiting trial or confined for minor offences. Criminals 
separated from witnesses, poor debtors, etc. In 1878, average number of 
prisoners, 153; cost, each inmate for the year, $120.36 The United States 
pays for the board of its prisoners. Jailer, John M. Clark. 
HOUSE OF CORRECTION (1824), First St., South Boston, House of Correc- 
Ward XIV. In charge of the Directors of Public Institutions, 
30 Pemberton Sq. 
For creator offences and longer sentences than the House of Industry, 
page 13. 1879-80, average, 493 criminals; cost, $l6O a year each; earn- 
ings, $96. All are employed at various occupations. A few women are 
received to do the housework. Protestant and Catholic services. Library. 
Master, M. Y. B. Berry. 
MEDICAL EXAMINERS. F. A. Harris, M. D., 43 Hancock Medical Examin- 
St., and F. W. Draper, M. D., 36 Worcester St. Apply at theers- 
nearest police station. 
Perform the duties formerly performed by coroners in cases of death 
supposed to have been caused by violence. 
Master, M. V. B. Berry. 
STATE: 
THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, LUNACY, AND state Board 
CHARITY. Office, State House, Ward X. and charity, in 
door and out- 
Established July 1, 1879, upon the abolition of the State Board of door. 
Health, the Board of State Charities, and other Boards connected with the 
State Almshouse, Workhouse, and Reformatories. It is vested with the 
powers of the old Boards, and some new ones. It has general supervision 
over all the State charitable and reformatory institutions, including the 
State Lunatic Hospitals. It has power to investigate the case of any per- 
son committed to any lunatic hospital or asylum, public or private, or 
restrained of his liberty by reason of alleged insanity, and, if it deem 
wise, to discharge such person. In sanitary matters, it has co-ordinate 
Power with the local authorities. Other duties of the Board are stated 
below, under the departments to which they have been assigned. 
Members of the Board. Moses Kimball, Chairman; David L. Web- 
ster, Charles F. Donnelly, Ezra Parmenter, M.D., of Cambridge, Robert 14 
GOVERNMENT AID STATE. 
T. Davis, M. D., of Fall River, Edward Hitchcock, M.D., of Amherst, 
John C. Hoadley, of Lawrence, Nathan Allen, M. D., of Lowell, Albert 
Wood, M. D., of Worcester. 
Standing Committees on Health, on Lunacy, and on Charities. 
Departments. The Secretary, Dr. C. F. Folsom, is at the head of the 
Department of Health, and of the sanitary supervision of the institutions. 
The Superintendent of the Out-door Poor, Dr. H. B. Wheelwright, visits 
personally, or by an officer, the State poor too sick to he removed to the 
almshouse, those ill with contagious diseases, and the poor receiving tem- 
porary relief from the State, upon notice from the Overseers of the Poor 
(page 20); cares for foundlings and destitute infants (see Massachusetts 
Infant Asylum, page 55), and for unsettled paupers of Indian descent, 
and audits all claims of the towns against the State for the support and 
burial of the out-door poor. Of each person aided a history is kept, to 
which any one interested can refer. 
The Superintendent of the In-door Poor, Mr. S. C. Wrightington, keeps 
a record of each State pauper in the State charitable institutions, and of 
each ward of the State, whether in reform or primary schools, or placed 
in a family, and sees that each is properly cared for. His officer examines 
alien passengers on their arrival in the State, and if any appear likely, 
from physical, disability or other cause, to become public charges, he 
requires a bond from the commander of the steamer, or the proprietor or 
agent of the conveyance bringing them here, that such passenger shall 
not within ten years become a city, town or State charge; he prosecutes 
the putative fathers of bastard children, attends on courts in the interests 
of juvenile offenders, and exercises supervision .over wards of the State 
who have been indentured or placed in families. In 1878, 2,222 com- 
plaints in court; average age of children, 13 5-12 years. In Jan., 18/9, 
900 children in families, 7l4in institutions. 
The Inspector of Charities, Mr. F. B. Sanborn, performs the Board’s 
statistical work, sees that the statutes regulating the commitment and 
detention of lunatics are complied with, and exercises constant watchful- 
ness over all the institutions supervised by the Board. 
The following institutions (beside the private charities aided by the 
State), and all asylums for the insane, are under the general supervision 
of the Board; 
Lunatic hospi- STATE LUNATIC HOSPITAL, Worcester, page 45. 
tais. « “ “ Taunton, page 45. 
“ “ “ Northampton, page 45. 
“ “ “ Danvers, page 45. 
Lunatic asylums. STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM, Worcester, page 45. 
“ “ “ Tewksbury, page 45. 
Boys’and girls. STATE PRIM AH Y SCHOOL, Monson, page 81. 
Primary School. 
Forboys. “ REFORM SCHOOL, Westborough, page 63. 
Industrial School “ INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, Lancaster, page 64. 
for girls. 
Almshouse. “ ALMSHOUSE, Tewksbury, page 48. 
Workhouse. “ WORKHOUSE, Bridgewater (see below). 
state Workhouse STATE WORKHOUSE (1866), Bridgewater, Mass. 
for adult con- 
victs. Men, including tramps, committed by Police and District Courts, and GOVERNMENT AID—UNITED STATES. 
15 
women transferred from the Reformatory Prison at Sherhorn, where all 
women of this class are now first sent. Average number of inmates in 
1879, 309: one-eighth paid for by towns, at |1.70 per. week; in May, 1880, 
230 inmates. Managed by five Trustees, including two women, under the 
State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, page 13. Superintendent, 
Nahum Leonard, Jr. 
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF PRISONS (organized prisons. 
May 3, 1879, succeeding other Boards with similar duties), 
State House, Ward X. 
Has the supervision of— 
THE STATE PRISON (seebelow). 
THE REFORMATORY PRISON FOR WOMEN, page 62, 
THE COUNTY PRISONS (see House Of Correction, page 13, and 
Suffolk County Jail, page 13). 
Members.—Thomas Parsons, of Brookline, Chairman; Mrs. Mary G. 
Ware, of Lancaster; William Roberts, of Waltham; Mrs. Ellen C. John- 
son, of Boston; Charles O. Chapin, of Springfield. Secretary, W. E. 
Spalding, of Cambridge. 
STATE PRISON (1805), Concord, Mass. state Prison. 
Receives men sentenced for 3 years or more. Three-fourths of the 
convicts work under contracts; others about the prison. Library, 4,500 
volumes. Catholic and Protestant services. 1879, average number of 
convicts, 770; average cost per inmate, f 151.88; average earnings, $95.44. 
Under the Commissioners of Prisons (see above). Warden, S. E. 
Chamberlain. 
STATE AID AND MILITARY AID ON ACCOUNT OFstateawonac- 
ARMY AND NAVY SERVICES, page 26. navy services. 
MASSACHUSETTS NORMAL ART SCHOOL, page 80. "a^us- 
trial drawing). 
STATE LIBRARY, page 83. State Library. 
NOTE. Get information concerning persons who have been in govern- 
Former inmates 
Bi6nt Institutions —• institutions 
From"the Directors of Public Institutions, 30 Pemberton Square, if in 
city almshouses, reformatories, Lunatic Hospital, or correctional institu- 
tions. 
From the State-Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, State House, it 
in State almshouses, reformatories, or lunatic hospitals. 
Prom the Prison Commissioners, 33 Pemberton Square, if in the State 
Prison or the Reformatory Prison at Sherborn. 
UNITED STATES: 
UNITED STATES MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE, page «*■ 
3G. 
UNITED STATES NAVAL HOSPITAL, page 36. sS^r"aval 16 
GOVERNMENT AID—UNITED STATES. 
Pensions. Artifl- UNITED STATES PENSION AGENCY, 50 Post Office 
Building, Ward VI. Apply to the Adjutant General, A. Hun 
Berry, at the State House. 
Any man disabled by reason of any wound, injury, or disease contracted 
while in the military or'naval service of the United States, and in the line 
of duty, is entitled to a pension. For total disability, $3O, $25, $2O, $l7, 
$l5, $lO, or $8 a month, according to rank. For permanent specific dis- 
ability, a special pension, varying from $l3 to $31.25 The widow of any 
man entitled to an invalid pension, or, in case of her death or re-marriage, 
his children until the age of 16, are entitled to the same pension as the 
husband or father; and an additional $2 per month for each child. Chil- 
dren born before the marriage of their parents, if acknowledged by the 
father before or after marriage, are deemed legitimate. No pension is 
allowed to a widow who has abandoned the care of her children, or who 
is an unsuitable person, by reason of immoral conduct, to have the custody 
of the same; in such cases, the pension is paid to the guardian. In cases 
where there is no widow or child entitled, the pension goes to the mother 
until her marriage or death, when it descends to the father; and upon his 
death, to the brothers and sisters until they attain the age of 16 (a sister’s 
pension ceases upon her marriage); provided, they were dependent upon 
the pensioner, and the pension is necessary as a means of adequate sub- 
sistence. Arrears of pension are paid upon application in behalf of any 
person entitled to them. Pensions are not liable to attachment. There 
are special provisions for pensioners of the Mexican war, war of 1812, and 
Revolutionary war. New artificial limbs and apparatus, or their equiva- 
lent in money, are furnished to each crippled man every five years, and 
transportation to and from home for the fitting of limbs, etc. Pension 
Agent, Daniel W. Gooch. RELIEF, IRRESPECTIVE OF GLASS. 
17 
CLASS 111.— RELIEF (various kinds) IRRE- 
SPECTIVE OF CLASS. 
[The marginal notes do not give a synopsis of all the work done by an 
organization, but of that part only which comes under the class named at the 
top of the page.] 
CITY SOUP (1874). Apply at the Police Stations. 
Provided by the City Council, and distributed at the station-houses, 
daily, during a few of the coldest months, to resident families, found on 
examination to be needy and deserving. Cost for the season of 1880 (Jan. 
6 to March 31), $2,477.49; 18,789 families fed; 88,657 meals. 
ST. JOSEPH’S HOME FOR SICK AND DESTITUTE Food. 
SERVANT GIRLS (out-door relief), page 53. 
CHARLESTOWN POOR’S FUND (1674). Office, 5 City Fuel (Charies- 
Hall, Harvard Square, Charlestown, Ward Y. 
The income of various bequests, amounting to $24,400, is expended 
annually for the deserving poor of Charlestown. 250 tons of coal were 
distributed in the winter of 1879-80. Officers : The two senior deacons of 
each regularly organized church in Charlestown, together with the Char- 
lestown members of the City Council. Treas., Dea. George W. Little; 
Disbursing Agent, Dea. D. B. Weston. 
THE FRIENDLY HAND (1878), 2 Main St,, Charlestown, 
Ward V. Apply to Supt., J. L. Gray. town). 
Furnishes meals at reasonable prices; sometimes gives food and lodg- 
ing to indigent persons. Temperance principles. Special cases sent by 
benevolent persons are paid for by them. 
HIGHLAND AID SOCIETY (1875). Apply to Pres., Mm. 
B. S, Farrington, 107 Warren St., Roxbury. 
Gives clothing to poor of the Highland District, recommended by a 
member. Protestants preferred. From Oct. ’7B to Apr. ’79, $22 spent; 15 
families received 105 garments. Sec’y, Miss E. W. Rumrill, 74 Dale St. 
THE FRAGMENT SOCIETY (incor. 1816), .Apply 
letter to the Scc'y, Mrs. Chas Van Brunt, 66 Commonwealth infants.’suits 
Av.; or to the Managers : Mrs. J. P. Kimball, Mrs. Wm. Read, 
Mrs. E. G. Tucker, Mrs. R. E. Robbins, Mrs. S. D. Warren, Mrs. 
Chas. S. Butler, Mrs. Wm. S. Lincoln, Miss Simpson, Mrs. 
Francis A. Hall, Mrs, James W. Austin. 
Gives material for clothing; also, shoes, and ready-made infants’ suits, 
to destitute persons who are well known to the Society. 18 
RELIEF, IRRESPECTIVE OP CLASS. 
and SPIRITUALISTS’ LADIES’ AID SOCIETY (1855), Amory 
Hall, 503 Washington St., Ward X. Apply Thursday after- 
noon or evening. 
Gives money and clothing, after investigation. Dispenses yearly about 
f2OO in money, and 150 garments. Sec’y, Miss Flora W. Barrett, 4 
Myrtle St., Dorchester. 
clothing,fuel, DEYENS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, First Universalist 
“ayi'a. empo' Church, p. 109. 
Charlestown. 
rood, clothing, NORTH STREET UNION MISSION TO THE POOR 
(1858), 144 Hanover St., Ward YI. Apply to Missionary, 
Philip Davies, between 9 and 2. 
Instructs the ignorant, and helps the poor to help themselves. Food, 
clothing, cash, etc., given on the premises to poor deserving persons, and 
visits made in their homes. Employment obtained, when possible. Sun- 
day services, and school, temperance and reading meetings.. Religious 
books, etc., distributed. Report published annually, in January. About 
f3,000 spent yearly. 
Food, clothing, UNION FOR CHRISTIAN WORK, page 86. 
money. Koxbury. r ~ 
money*to redeem FAWN FUND (1877). Apply to Treas. and Trustee, Mrs. 
property. Geo. S. Jackson, Room 41, Charity Building, Chardon St., Tues- 
days, 2.30 to 3.30. 
Assists in redeeming property which has been left in great emergency 
as collateral upon borrowing of trifling sums. Application should be 
made by some responsible visitor, if possible, who can make a careful 
statement of the circumstances of the case, as it is the intention that the 
knowledge of this fund should never reach the poor themselves, who 
might then claim its indulgence. Such help becomes a gift, or loan, or 
partly both, as the need suggests. Direct loans are made, notes being 
taken, and also small mortgages sometimes transferred to the hands of 
the treasurer, both of which are held without interest until little by little, 
according to agreement, the money is repaid. Annual income about 
ssoo. 
mmmTfesue-61’ THE HOWARD BENEVOLENT SOCIETY IN THE 
ciaiiy Americans, CITY OF BOSTON (1812, incor. 1818). Apply to the near- 
pmperfEas)tantd est ?f the following Distributers: M. B. Leonard, M. D., 7 
south isoston. Meridian St,, East Boston; Dexter W. Wiswall, 222 Hanover 
St.; Wm, B. Storer, 58 India Sq,; Luther L. Jenkins, 119 
Leverett St.; Andrew Cushing, 19 Congregational House, 9to 
11 daily; Geo. F. Bigelow, M. D., 334 Shawmut Av.; Chas. F. 
Wyman, 68 India Sq.; Israel S. Trafton, 65 Hudson St.; Ed- 
mund T. Eastman, M. D., 293 Shawmut Av.; Samuel B. Cruft, 
433 Shawmut Av.; Alvan Simonds, 115 Dorchester Av.; Fran- 
cis James, West Broadway, South Boston. 
Relieves the sick and destitute of the city proper, East and South Bos- 
ton, especially the better class of American poor, who do not seek or re- 
ceive more public aid. Fuel, groceries, and rarely money, are given at RELIEF, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS, 
19 
the discretion of the distributer. Report published annually, in October. 
About $5,500 spent annually. Pres., SamT B. Cruft, 433 Shawmut Av.; 
Seo’y, Geo. F. Bigelow, M. D., 334 Shawmut Av.; Treas., Alvan Simonds, 
115 Dorchester Av. 
EPISCOPAL CITY MISSION, page 85. JKw£tMntr’ 
YOUNG MEN’S BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (1827, incor. f^’tt^ys.hoes’ 
1852). Apply to the nearest member of the Standing Com- city’proper. 
rnittee: Edw. McDonald, 64 Prince St.; Joseph S. Berry, 160 
Hanover St,; Emery Souther, Green St., cor. of Lyman; bran- 
ds Schiller, 176 Salem St.; Thos. Gaffield, 54 Allen St ; Geo. 
A. Goddard, 1 Mt. Vernon Pic,; Rev. H. F. Jenks, 149 A, Tre- 
mont St ; Joseph T. Brown, Jr., 504 Washington St,; Dr Geo. 
F. Bigelow, 384 Shawmut Av.; Dr. H. W. Broughton, City 
Hospital; Dr. W. E. Boardman, Hotel Cluny, Boylston St. 
Food, fuel, sometimes shoes and rent, and in extreme cases money, are 
given, chiefly to Protestant Americans or those who have been so long 
in Boston as to have become identified with its interests. No assist- 
ance given in the first instance without a visit from a member of the com- 
mittee. Idlers and intemperate persons are assisted only in sickness, and 
their families only in cases of extreme necessity. No assistance given to 
parents who wilfully keep their children from school. Report published 
annually, in November. Over 300 families aided yearly; and about 
$2,000 spent Pres., Warren Sawyer, Milk St., cor. Congress; Seo’y, J. 
R. Reed, 68 Devonshire St.; Treas., Frederic W. Lincoln, 126 Commer- 
cial St. 
JAMAICA PLAIN EMPLOYMENT AND TEMPORARY 
fuel, light, money 
RELIEF'SOCIETY (1874). Office, Curtis Hall, Centre St., (Jamaica Plain,). 
Ward XXIII Apply to Agent, Mrs William Bradley, between 
10 and 1, except Saturdays and Sundays; or to any District 
Visitor, from October to June. 
Aids those who wish to help themselves, encourages prudence and indus- 
try, and helps the sick and suffering. A volunteer visitor and an associate 
have charge of each of the fourteen districts, which include most of Ward 
XXIII., except the villages of West Roxbnry, Clarendon Hills and Roslm- 
dale. The visitor may give to the temperate poor relief in sewing (ex- 
amined with a view to improvement before being paid for in articles or 
money), or in orders for food, fuel, clothing and light; under no circum- 
stances in money, without consultation with the executive committee. 
Clothing sold at about the cost of material, or made for the City Hospital, 
Farm School, etc., without charge, they furnishing material. Any person 
can obtain tickets at the office by which to refer applicants to the society. 
Report published annually, in the autumn. About $2,000 spent yearly; 
about 50 families aided. 'Pres., Rev. S. U. Shearman; Sec’y, Miss C. E. 
Chickering, Green St., J. P.; Treas., Mrs. Francis H. Storer; Chairman 
of Executive Committee, Dr. George Faulkner. 
ROXBURY CHARITABLE SOCIETY (1794, incor. 1799),^°ef 
118 Roxbury St, Ward XXI. Apply to Agent, L. H. Briggs, employment 
J , A procured. (Rox- 
between 9 and 1. bury.) 
Finds employment and gives money, food, fuel, and clothing to the 20 
RELIEF, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS. 
destitute, of good character, living in Roxbury. Supplies, bought at the 
lowest wholesale prices are given, out at the office. Monthly payments 
are made to beneficiaries by vote of the committee. Report published 
annually, in October. Spends about $6,000 yearly, and aids over 2,000 
persons. Distributes interest of Snow Fund. Pres., Gorham Rogers; 
Sec’y, Charles K. Diilaway, 183 Roxbury St.; Treas., John Carr, 12 War- 
ren Place, Roxbury. 
THE DISPENSARY DEPARTMENT aids about 500 persons yearly. 
Physician, Edward T. Williams, M. D., 2298 Washington St. 
portiaon^mX8- OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, BOSTON (1692, incor. 
moneylunals’ 1772) Apply at the Office, Rooms 17 and 18, Charity Build- 
ing, Chardon St., Ward VII., from 9 till 5; Saturdays till 2. 
Urgent cases attended to on Sundays, if notice is dropped in 
the box at the door. 
Grant partial relief, in small supplies of food, fuel, medicines, and 
rarely money, at their own homes, to those who in their opinion require 
it,provided, such persons have a settlement in Boston; also, relieve at the 
expense of towns in which such persons have settlements, until the town 
takes charge of the case; persons having no settlement in the State, pro- 
vided the State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity (page 13) so directs, 
are relieved for four weeks, or until their removal to the State almshouse; 
and sick State paupers, unable to be moved, are aided in their homes. 
The settlement laws are so complicated, and so often changed, that each 
case should be referred directly to the Overseers for an accurate decision. 
Every case is examined by trained and experienced visitors, and a com- 
plete indexed record is kept; all the circumstances and antecedents of the 
applicant are inquired into, and the assistance furnished is, as nearly as 
possible, adapted to the necessities of each individual. The Committee of 
Investigation and Relief decide whether any relief shall be given, and if 
any, the nature and extent of the same. Any person aggrieved by the 
decision will be heard by the Board. Food is supplied within the city 
proper directly from the office, insuring better qualities and larger quan- 
tities ; the able-bodied carry theirs home. The labor test is rigidly en- 
forced with the able-bodied, male paupers as a condition of assistance; 
tickets are issued entitling holders to meals or lodging. (See below, 
Wayfarer’s Lodge and Temporary Home.) The Overseers may remove 
to the almshouse persons receiving relief through them; also children 
under four, suffering from extreme neglect of dissolute or intemperate 
parents or guardians, children having no legal settlement in the State, 
idiotic children or those so defective as to make their detention in an 
almshouse desirable, and any child under eight whose mother is an in- 
mate of an almshouse and a suitable person to aid in taking care of her 
child. Neglected children over four, shall be boarded out (visited and all 
needful inquiries made as to their treatment or welfare at least once in 
three months), in asylums or respectable families in the State, until they 
can be otherwise cared for. Upon complaint of the Overseers, or the 
State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity (page 13), any pauper not 
born or having a settlement in this State, who may conveniently be re- 
moved, can be conveyed at the expense of the State to any other State, or 
if not a citizen of the United States, to any foreign place where he be- 
longs. Burial is given to unknown persons found dead, and to all per- 
sons having died without means. The Overseers are entitled to so much 
of the property of any person, who at the time of his death is relieved by 
them, as will pay all expenses that have been incurred for him. Over 
$BO,OOO are spent yearly on city charges, and $23,000 from Trust Funds; RELIEF, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS. 
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about 17,000 persons aided; over 12,000 visits are made. There are 
twelve Overseers, four of whom are elected by the City Council in April 
of each year, to serve for three years. The Overseers meet on the first 
Wednesday of each month. Chairman, Thos. C. Amory; Treas., F. W. 
Lincoln; Sec’y, Benj. Pettee. 
TRUST FUNDS in the hands of the Overseers 
Pemberton Fund ($99,132). Income given in semi-annual payments to 
the better class of the poor. 
Boylston Relief Fund ($18,333.56). Income given in semi-annual pay- 
ments to “ poor and decayed householders not under fifty years of age, 
of good character, and reduced by acts of Providence, not by indolence, 
extravagance, or other vice.” 
Boylston Education Fund ($108,660.66). Income applied to “ nurture 
and instruction of poor orphans and deserted children until 14”; at the 
Farm School on Thompson’s Island 25 boys are now maintained. 
Mason Fund ($8,409). Interest paid annually to the chaplain of House 
of Industry. 
Dexter Fund ($2,676.03). Income given in fuel to those receiving aid 
from the Trust Funds. 
Jeffries Fund ($2,530.38). Income applied to the “ purchase of tea, cof- 
fee, chocolate and sugar for the refreshment of those persons, who, in the 
providence of God, are or shall be obliged to seek refuge in the alms- 
house, after having lived reputably; but always giving preference to the 
pious poor.” 
Lucy Bullman Charity ($8,542.59). Income given in varying sums of 
money for temporary relief of persons who have seen better days and 
come to want, for whom no other adequate provision is available. 
David Sears Charity ($255,261.87). Income given in semi-annual pay- 
ments, “ in aid and for the support of citizens or families who may have 
seen better days, and for charity in all its forms.” 
Pierce Fuel Fund ($1,545.48). Income given in fuel to those indigent 
widows, living in Charlestown, whose husbands, before their decease, had 
resided in Charlestown at least one year. 
Dolton Protestant Poor Fund ($1,501.06). Income annually given in 
Provisions among poor and indigent Protestant familes of Brighton, for 
Thanksgiving and other holidays; and specially to unmarried females a 
liberal share, and also other articles of comfort. 
Holton Protestant Pauper Fund ($2,085.18). Income provides good 
and plentiful meals on Thanksgiving, or other holidays, to Protestant 
Paupers of Brighton. 
Stoughton Poor Fund ($158.69). Income given to the most needy in- 
habitants of Dorchester. 
There are 339 pensioners of the Trust Funds, and about $23,000 are 
spent yearly. 
THE TEMPORARY HOME (1862). Chardon St., Ward VII. Apply Meals and lodg- 
at the Home. Gives temporary shelter and food to needy women and chil- mgs. 
Oren, while endeavoring to procure employment or find friends. The 
women do the work of the Home and wash for the Wayfarers’ Lodge. 
foundlings are brought here, and if not well adopted are placed in the 
Mass. Infant Asylum, page 55, City or State institutions. Many women 
hnd places as wet nurses, and their infants are boarded with poor but kind 
ai*d responsible persons. About $B,OOO are spent yearly; about 2,000 
Persons are received; about 350 are furnished with employment, many 
are sent to the almshouse or to friends, and about 240 lost children are re- 
stored to parents or guardians. Supt., John A. Doe, Jr,; Matron, Phcebe 
Spear. 22 
RELIEF, IRRESPECTIVE OF CLASS. 
Meals and lodg- WAYFARERS’LODGE (1879). Hawkins St., Ward VII. Apply at 
ings. {he Police Stations. Accommodates 150 persons. One room is devoted 
to persons aged and infirm, or otherwise entitled to consideration. Each 
person must take a warm bath on entering, and receives a wholesome 
breakfast and supper. In return he cuts and saws wood for one or two 
hours. The male members of families who apply to the Overseers receive 
two dollars’ worth of groceries for two days’ work; men also earn their 
meals in the Lodge yard. The wood is used for public buildings, sold to 
the public, and given to the poor. Average number of lodgers each night, 
42. Over 35,000 meals are furnished yearly. Supt., Edward Riley. 
Groceries, cloth- SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL (1861, incor. 
ing, fuel, shoes, i ouq\ 
rent, tuition, '' 
burials, money: Apply to the president, or any member of the Conference of the parish, 
employment pro- (S J^man Catholic Churches, page 106.) 
Its objects are, Ist, The practice of a Christian life; 2d, to visit the 
‘poor at their dwellings, and to carry them succor in land; 3d, to pro- 
mote the elementary and religious instruction of poor children; 4th, to 
distribute moral and religious books; and sth, to undertake any other 
charitable work to which their resources are adequate. Situations are 
procured; and relief given in groceries and fuel, clothing and shoes, 
rent and board (always paid to the landlord), tuition, burials, and cash, 
to all classes, after investigation. The Conference distributes tickets 
(available for relief in kind) or money, to its visiting members (volun- 
teers) at the weekly meeting, and the relief is promptly given to the poor 
in their homes, according to the decision of the Conference. Report pub- 
lished annually, in October. Over $20,000 expended; over 2,000 families 
aided, and an average of 30,000 visits made yearly. 
Particular Council: Spiritual Director, Rev. T. B. Shahan, 74 Harvard 
St.; Pres., Thos. F. Ring, 413 Atlantic Av.; Sec’y, John J. Mundo, 80 
Emerald St.; Treas., J. W- McDonald, 9 Joy’s Building. 
Food, clothing, BOSTON PROVIDENT ASSOCIATION (1851, incor. 
fuel, shoes, bed- igs4), Central Office, Room 32, Charity Building, Chardon 
transportation^1 St., Ward VII. Apply to Gen. Agent, Edw. Frothingham, or 
Tempor°aryyaid. Miss E' S' Nesbitt> 9 to 5 in winter, in summer 9 to 1; 
city proper, or to any sectional visitor; for South Boston, to Visitor Calvin 
“;id East Shepard, 325 E Street. 
Extends to all classes of any sector nationality within the city proper, 
South and East Boston, temporary aid in time of necessity, relief in 
sickness and suffering, and assistance to those wdio try to help them- 
selves. Also gives seasonable advice, and promotes frequent intercourse 
with the poor; to suppress street-beggary, and to place all unfor- 
tunate and dependent persons among the beneficiaries of such special 
charities as are designed for them. Orders for food, fuel, shoes, cloth- 
ing, bedding and furniture are given at the office, or by the volunteer 
visitor of each section at the homes of the poor. Rent paid only in 
advance, to save a family from being ejected. Transportation some- 
times paid by the General Agent. The male head of the family, when 
there is one, must apply, if possible, before relief can be given. _ Labor- 
ing men must make every effort to find their own fuel. Relief is never 
given to families of the intemperate or vicious, beyond the demands of 
urgent necessity. Members are furnished with tickets, by which they 
can refer all applicants to the Association. Laborers are furnished em- 
ployment, through this Association, at the Provident Wood-Yard (page RELIEF, lEEESPECTIYE OF CLASS. 
23 
6). In special cases designated by private individuals who furnish the 
money, sewing is given to women, and the clothing made distributed 
through this Association. Eeport and Directory published annually, in 
October. An annual payment of not less than $1 constitutes member- 
ship. About $20,000 spent yearly, and about 5,000 families aided. Pres., 
Hon. Chas. E. Codman; Sec’y, William Hedge, 35 Court St.; Treas., 
Edw. Jackson, 178 Devonshire St. 
BENEYOLENT FRATERNITY OF CHURCHES, page 85. Aid given. 
BOSTON NORTH END MISSION (1865, incor. 1870). 201 Aid given. 
North St., Ward YI. Apply to Missionary, John Currie, be- 
tween 10 and 11 A. M , or 2 and 3 P. M. 
Gives relief of all kinds to the worthy poor. 
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR WOMEN (sewing), Friday afternoons 
from October to April; garments sold to the pupils for 5 or 10 cents 
each, or paid for in housework at the Mission. 
GIRLS’ INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL (sewing), Saturday morning, and 
employment obtained for young girls. 
NURSERY AND KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL for children of hard- 
working women; children received for the day or permanently; mothers, 
unless out of work or sick, pay a small board for their children. 
READING ROOM for unemployed men; open daily. 
The public welcome at any time. Sunday services and school, temper- 
ance and praver meetings. Report published annually, in April. Pres., 
Silas Pierce, Jr.; Sec’y, H. E. Abbott, 70 Devonshire St.; Treas., J. H. 
Farrar, 59 Commercial St. 
Supports THE MOUNT HOPE HOME FOR FALLEN WOMEN 
AND SUMMER HOME FOR CHILDREN (1873), Bourne St., Forest 
Hills, Ward XXIII. Laundry-work, sewing, gardening, and domestic 
service taught. Religious instruction. During the summer about 150 
children enjoy here a vacation of two weeks or more. 
LADIES’ RELIEF AGENCY (1869). Room 37, Charity Aid given. 
Building, Chardon St., Ward YII. Apply to Bec'y, Miss C. 
Harmon, between 9 and 1, any day except Saturday. 
Aids, partly in sewing, the more respectable cases of want, when per- 
sonally ascertained to be true and meritorious Supported chiefly by 
friends of the Episcopal Church. Pres., Mrs. G. H. Shaw; Treas., Mrs. 
R- M. Cushing. 
PORTLAND STREET MISSION (1878), 90 Portland St, Aid given. 
Ward YII.; open afternoons, including Sundays. Apply to 
Missionary, F. C. Hatch, 1 to 3. 
Administers to spiritual and temporal wants of any who come within 
its knowledge, especially to raise fallen women. Relief of any kind, at 
homes or at Mission, as need requires. Temperance and prayer meet- 
ings. The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union conducts the Saturday 
evening meeting. In 1879-80 gave about 750 free meals, and expended 
$52 chiefly for lodgings. 
CITY MISSIONARY SOCIETY, page 84. Aid procured. 
SOCIETY FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF BIBLE READ-Aid procured. 
ERS, page 84. 24 
BELIEF FOR SPECIAL CLASSES. 
CLASS IV.—RELIEF FOR SPECIAL CLASSES. 
[The marginal notes do not give a synopsis of all the work done by an organi- 
zation, but of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of 
the page.] 
Decayed house- BOYLSTON RELIEF FUND (Overseers of the Poor), page 
holders. Money, g j y i o 
Chiefly clothing. SOUTH BOSTON SAMARITAN SOCIETY. 
Temporary aid 
for better class. Gives temporary relief, chiefly clothing, to those who are above seek- 
South Boston. jng }icip from other charities. Trustees investigate each case. During 
1878-9, spent $376, and helped over 100 families. Treas., Mrs. C. Shep- 
ard; Sec’y, Mrs. A. R. Porter, 124 F St. 
Americans, better HOWARD BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, page 18. 
class. City prop- 
er, East and So. 
Boston. Grocer- 
ies, fuel, money. 
Better class. DAVID SEARS CHARITY (Overseers of the Poor), page 
Better class. LUCY BULLMAN CHARITY (Overseers of the Poor), 
Money. page 21. 
Better class. PEMBERTON FUND (Overseers of the Poor), page 21. 
Protestant pau- HOLTON PROTESTANT PAUPER FUND (Overseers of 
pers of Brighton. „ -v oi 
Meals for hoii- the Poor), page 21. 
Protestants of HOLTON PROTESTANT POOR FUND (Overseers of the 
Brighton. Food, Poor), page 21. 
etc., for holidays. ' x ° 
Residents of Dor- STOUGHTON POOR FUND (Overseers of the Poor), page 
Chester. Money. 2R • 
Sufferers by fire. MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE FIRE SOCIETY. 
Money. (Incor. 1794.) Apply to the Committee on Charitable Dona- 
tions. 
Chief object to give pecuniary aid to sufferers by fire. Aids other 
benevolent purposes. Trustees. Sec’y, David P. Kimball, 21 Monk’s 
Building; Treas., Chas. B. Cumings, 28 State St. 
Sufferers by nre. SUMMER STREET FIRE FUND, about $77,000. Apply to 
Money. Treas., Otis Norcross, 9 Commonwealth Av. 
Relieves sufferers by fire. Trustees: Martin Brimmer and others. RELIEF FOR SPECIAL CLASSES. 
25 
HARRIS FUND FOR THE BLIND, page 43. dents of chariet 
town preferred. 
Relief. 
BOSTON DEAF MUTE SOCIETY, page 43. Money?d dumb’ 
HOME FOR AGED MEN, page 48. Ed men- Mon' 
MASSACHUSETTS .SOCIETY FOR AIDING DlS- 
convicts. Cloth- 
CHARGED CONVICTS, page 61. iX°orta«on!s’ 
employment pro- 
cured, etc. 
FRANKLIN FUND (1791). Managed under the direction Young 
of the Board of Aldermen, and the ministers of tlm oldest 
Episcopal, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches in Bos- 
ton, Apply to Treas., Samuel F. McCleary, City Clerk, City 
Hall. 
Deaf and dumb. 
Money. 
A donation of £l,OOO, by the will of Dr. Benjamin Franklin to be let 
°ut upon interest, at five per cent, per annum, to such young married, 
artificers, under the age of twenty-five years, as having served an appren- 
ticeship in the same town (Boston), and faithfully fulfilled the duties re- 
quired in their indentures, so as to obtain a good moral character from at 
least two respectable citizens, who are willing to become their sureties, in 
a bond with the applicants, for the repayment of the money so lent, with 
interest.” Loans not to exceed £6O pounds to one person, nor to be less 
than £l5: to be repaid in annual instalments of 10 per cent. Each bor- 
rower shall be obliged to pay with the yearly interest one-tenth part ot the 
Principal. Amount of fund, Feb., 1880, $249,095-87. 
BOSTON MUSICIANS’ RELIEF FUND SOCIETY. Per- Musicians, 
manent fund of about $9,000. Pres., T. M. Carter, 282 Wash- 
ington St.; Treas., J. T. Baldwin, 2 Court Sq.; Sec'y, W. C. 
Nichols, 33 Court St. 
FRANKLIN TYPOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, page 76. Outers. Burial 
POLICE CHARITABLE FUND (1870) Apply'in writing e“fVoney 
to Alfred T. Turner, Treas. and Sec'y, Auditor s Olhce, City 
Hall. 
The income of a fund consisting of the fees received by police officers 
as witnesses, and paid by them into the city treasury, is applied to the 
relief of persons who have received an honorable discharge fiom the police 
force by reason of sickness, age, or other disability, and who are, in con- 
sequence thereof, in necessitous circumstances; also to the relief of 
widows and orphans of police officers who have died in the service of the 
city. Amount of fund, April, 1880, $85,950. Unexpended income, 
$3,313.16. Trustees, ex officiis, the Mayor, City Treasurer, and Auditor 
of Accounts. 
AMERICAN SEAMEN’S FRIEND SOCIETY, page 87. monneyB°°ks 
THE BOSTON PORT AND SEAMEN’S AID SOCIETY 
ilies. Clothing, 
(incor. 1867), Mariners' House, 11 North Sq., Ward YI. Apply board Employ- 
to Bupt, Capt. J. P. Hatch, or to Pastor, Rev. E. R, Watson. Money. 26 
RELIEF FOR SPECIAL CLASSES. 
Aims to improve the moral, religious, and general condition of seamen 
and their families; to relieve the sick and disabled; to aid the poor and 
industrious; and to promote the education of seamen’s children. Gives 
board and clothing to needy sailors; procures voyages; and, in some 
cases, gives pecuniary aid to sailors or their families. THE MARI- 
NERS’ HOUSE (1837) is a home free to the shipwrecked and distressed, 
where seamen can board on reasonable terms. Committee on Admis- 
sion. Reading room and Library. 
SAILORS’ COFFEE AND FREE READING ROOMS (1879), 
Cockerel Hall, 287 Hanover St., Ward YL, open 8 a. m. to 10 p. m. 
BETHEL CHAPEL, opposite Mariners’ House, services and Sunday 
school unsectarian. Tracts are distributed and books loaned. Visitors 
welcome. About $2OO spent yearly in charity; average number of pen- 
sioners, 7. 
Pres., Rev. S. K. Lothrop, D.D; Sec’y, J. T. Prince, 17 Joy St.; Treas,, 
Chas. Henry Parker. 
Seamen. Aid. BOSTON SEAMEN’S FRIEND SOCIETY, page 87. 
Naval seamen, UNITED STATES PENSION AGENCY, page 16. 
disabled. Pen- ’ r 
sions, artificial 
limbs. 
Soldiers,disabled. MASS. EMPLOYMENT BUREAU FOR DISABLED SOL- 
transportation, 
DIERS, page 6. 
employment pro- 
cured. 
leOSf Art!-’ u- S< PENSION AGENCY, page 16. 
flcial limbs. 
Men or their STATE AID AND MILITARY AID ON ACCOUNT OF 
count of army” ARMY AND NAYY SERVICES (1861). See chapter 301 and 
Moneyvyservice’ chaPter 252> Acts of 1879- Appply at Room 21, Charity Build- 
ing, Chardon St., Ward VII, Open from 9to 5 ; Saturday 9 to 2. 
State aid of $6, $4.50, $3, or $1.50 per month is paid to invalid U. S. 
pensioners in proportion to pension. See Pension Agency, page 16. To 
the wife of pensioner, if married before discharge of husband from ser- 
vice, $4 per month. To widow of pensioner, $4 per month. To widowed 
mother of pensioner, $4 per month. 
Military aid is paid monthly to any man physically disabled from 
causes independent of his military service (except in case of applicants 
for pensions while their applications are pending), but not entitled to 
admission to any national sailors’ or soldiers’ home, who has been honor- 
ably discharged from the service to the credit of Massachusetts. Mili- 
tary aid shall not be more than is necessary to furnish reasonable relief 
and support, and shall be paid only to those who would otherwise be 
entitled to relief under the pauper laws. All applicants must be in neces- 
sitous circumstances, not voluntarily idle, or of vicious and intemperate 
habits. New cases are investigated at once by the police, and visited 
once a year by them. All applications are referred to a committee of 
three of the Board of Aldermen, for approval. About $lOO,OOO expended 
yearly, for over 2,000 families. '■ 
«^JidmrarinM<nf1 GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, Department of Mas- 
the Rebellion, or sachusetts (1867), 53 Tremont St., Room 3, Ward X. 
their widows and 
orphans. Each post holds a Relief Fund for the assistance of soldiers, sailors, RELIEF FOR SPECIAL CLASSES. 
27 
marines of the late Rebellion, and their widows and orphans. In 
-zjl® Department, over §400,000 expended for relief since 1867. 11 Posts 
11 -Boston. (See Boston Directory for locations.) 
MASS. MEDICAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, page 74. Physicians. 
7 r ° Money. 
AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION, page 90. Clergymen and 
x ° theological stud- 
ents. Money. 
THE CHRISTIAN WORKERS, page 90. Second Advent 
converts. 
Money. 
EPISCOPAL CLERICAL FUND ASSOCIATION OF THE Protestant Epis- 
HIOCESE OF MASSACHUSETTS (incor. 1846). Apply to 
Pres, ex officio, Bishop of the Diocese; Sec'y, Rev. Joseph H. 
Clinch, D.D., 614 Broadway, So. Boston ; or Treas., Joseph W. 
Clark, 175 Devonshire St. 
. Relieves indigent Protestant Episcopal clergymen, who from old age or 
sickness are unable to obtain employment. From §lOO to §3OO paid 
annually to each beneficiary on a vote of the board of managers. About 
§l,BOO spent annually, and about 6 persons aided. 
NEW ENGLAND EDUCATION SOCIETY, page 89. Methodist Epis- 
copal theological 
students. Loans. 
SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF AGED AND DESTI- Unitarian clergy- 
TUTE CLERGYMEN (1848, incor. 1850). men- Money* 
Aids, privately, destitute Unitarian clergymen over 55. Invested Fund 
about §60,000. 16 beneficiaries in 1879. Distributions in May and 
November. Pres., Rev. Andrew P. Peabody, T).D.; Sec’y, Rev. Geo. E. 
Ellis, D.D., 110 Marlboro’ St.; Treas., Nathaniel Thayer, 70 Mt. Vernon 
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THEOLOGICAL EDUCA-Theological 
TION (UNITARIAN), page 90. students. 
PREACHERS’ AID SOCIETY OF THE NEW ENG- Methodist Epis- 
LAND CONFERENCE OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL o?PwidPowasCof!rs’ 
CHURCH, 36 Bromfield St., Ward X. Money. 
Aids superannuated preachers of the Conference, or widows of preach- 
es. In 1878-9, §5,420 disbursed to 26 preachers and 24 widows. Treas., 
'-has. l. Lane, 80 W. Concord St. 
THE MASSACHUSETTS BAPTIST CHARITABLE SO- Widows and or- 
CIETY (incor. 1821). Apply to Sec’y, A. P. Mason, 28 School &Ste°rsBaptlSt 
in writing, with recommendation from pastor of church to Monev- 
the widow belongs. 
Aids, by semi-annual appropriations, the widows and children of Bap- 
lst ministers who have died while pastors within the State. Publishes 
statement. About §2,000 expended yearly, and 30 families 
med. 13 Trustees. Pres., Rev. G. G, Fairbanks; Treas,, Andrew Pol- 
lard, D-D., 9 Tremont Temple. 28 
RELIEF FOR SPECIAL CLASSES. 
Widows and or- SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND OR- 
tamEp"opai3' PHANS OF DECEASED CLERGYMEN OF THE PKOTEST- 
ciergymen. ANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, page 75. 
Money. x ° 
Widows and or- MASSACHUSETTS CONGREGATIONAL CHARITABLE 
SOCIETY. Apply to the Committee on Appropriations: Dr. 
men. Money! S. K. Lothrop, 12 Chestnut St.; Dr. G. E. Ellis, 110 Marlboro’ 
St.; Rev. J. H. Means, Washington, cor. Centre St., Dorches- 
ter ; and Treas., Abbott Lawrence, 5 Commonwealth Av. 
Aids needy widows and orphans of Congregational ministers of this 
State, Trinitarian and Unitarian; $B,OOO was assigned for distribution 
during the year beginning June, 1879. In 1878-79,62 beneficiaries. Pres., 
Henry B. Rogers, 6 Joy St.; Sec’y, Rev. Rufus Ellis, 106 Marlboro’ St. 
Widows, Money. BOSTON FATHERLESS AND WIDOWS’ SOCIETY. 
Assists poor widows, especially those who have seen better days and 
would shrink from publicity. The character of each recipient is investi- 
gated, friendly monthly visits are made, encouragement and advice 
given. A board of twelve ladies distributes relief. In 1878-79, over 
$lO,OOO paid to 400 beneficiaries. Pres., Mrs. G. W. Ware, Belmont, 
Mass.; Treas., Chas. G. Nazro, 54 Kilby St.; Sec’y, Miss Cornelia L. 
Warren, 67 Mt. Vernon St. 
people!8 Monlyf POOR WIDOWS’ FUND (1759). 
A donation by Mrs. Joanna Brooker and others to Boston, the income 
of which is paid in equal proportions to the Aldermen of the city, who 
distribute it at their discretion, for the relief of poor widows and sick 
people. Fund, $3,200. 
Widows and THE WIDOWS’ SOCIETY (1816, incor. 1828). Apply to 
resfdemsTfßis- Seo'y, Mrs. Augustus Lowell, 60 State St., in writing; or per- 
ton. Money. sonally, at 171 Commonwealth Av., from November to May. 
Aids poor and infirm widows and single women of good character, over 
60, natives of Boston, or residents; must have resided for 10 years within 
the old city limits. Preference given to American Protestants. They 
must bring some recommendation from and be visited by one of the 
, visitors, before they can be nominated at the quarterly meeting. Each 
beneficiary receives $52 a year and is visited twice in each quarter, but 
not on any appointed day. List always full. Seventy pensioners. 
Twenty-four lady visitors. First Directress, Mrs. Amos A. Lawrence, 
Longwood; Treas., Dr. R. W. Hooper, 114 Beacon St. 
Widows, resi- PIERCE FUEL FUND (Overseers of Poor), paffe 21. 
dents of Charles- v ’ * o • 
town. Fuel. 
Aged colored HOME FOR AGED COLORED WOMEN, paire 50 
women. ’ ° 
Fallen women. PORTLAND ST. MISSION, page 23. 
American nurses. DOANE FUND FOR NURSES, page 49. 
Money. x 0 
Servant girls. ST. JOSEPH’S HOME FOR SICK AND DESTITUTE 
SERVANT GIRLS, page 53. RELIEF FOR SPECIAL CLASSES. 
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BOFFIN’S BOWER (1870), 1031 Washington St., Ward XVI. working gins. 
Apply to Miss Jennie Collins, 9 to 6. employment pro- 
. cured, clothing, 
Assists working girls, by gaining their confidence, by advice, by en-shelter, legal ad- 
conragement in carrying out their own views if right, or by aiding them vi.ce, dinners in 
to find suitable employment. Relief is given in small sums of money, nter’ money’ 
clothing, extension of credit, legal advice, transportation by rail, homes 
Where the applicant can work for board, pardons for unfortunate criminal 
friends, shelter, and all influences that can be brought to bear on the 
erring. Through the winter months dinners are given to those willing to 
Work. The reading-room is supplied with newspapers, and to it women 
are allowed to bring their work. Report published annually, in May. 
About $2,000 spent yearly, and over 1,000 names of applicants and 
employers are registered. Pres., Hon. F. W. Bird; Sec'y, W. F. D. Per- 
kins ; Treas., Mrs. John H. Pillsbury. 
GIRLS’ FRIENDLY SOCIETY, Boston Branch (1879). Single Protestant 
Apply to Pres., Mrs. G. A. Meyer, 194 Beacon St. Friendly lid.8- 
Aims to provide a friend for every working girl (single), not Roman 
Catholic, especially stx-angers, and to promote purity and good character 
by mutual help and sympathy. Consists of ladies (communicants of the 
Episcopal Church) as Associates, and girls of good character as members. 
BOYLSION EDUCATION FUND (Overseers of Poor") Orphan and de- 
oi sorted children. 
•r'd'oe Care and educa- 
tion. 
TEMPORARY HOME (Overseers of Poor), page 21. Lost children re- 
stored to friends. 
BALDWIN PLACE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS, children, cioth- 
page 57. ins- 
BOSTON CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY, page 64. Boys and girls. 
BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN UNION, page 88. children, adults 
D and working- 
girls. Country 
POOR CHILDREN’S EXCURSIONS (organized in the cwtLn. Ex- 
“ North End Mission,” 1872), Apply to the Police, cursions. 
Gives to poor children, who have no other chance for excursions, a 
really joyful picnic. Excursion tickets are distributed with much care, 
by the police in each section, to girls not over 12 and boys not over 10. 
About $3,000 spent each year, and about 10,000 children attend. Nine 
Picnics during July and August, 1879. For 1880, Chairman, S. B. Stab- 
le 1118; Sec’y, Frederick Dame; Auditor, A. A. Burrage; Treas., Messrs. 
■Peters & Parkinson. 
SHAW ASYLUM FOR MARINERS’ CHILDREN, page 57. Mariners’ chii- 
r ° dren. Aid. 30 
AID FOR FOREIGNERS. 
CLASS V.—AID FOR FOREIGNERS. 
. [The marginal notes do not give a synopsis of all the work done by an organ- 
ization, but of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of 
the page.] 
Wefsh.'1 informa- THE BRITISH CHARITABLE SOCIETY (1816, incor. 
tion, advice, 1818). Apply to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees J. 
money. Stuart MacCorry, City Hall; or to any Trustee. 
Relieves English, Scotch and Welsh immigrants, or their families, and 
affords them information and advice. Gives money, in most cases not 
exceeding one dollar; in extreme cases, five dollars; the latter not to be 
renewed within six months, except by the consent of a majority of the 
Board of Trustees. About $7OO spent yearly, and about 300 persons 
aided. Trustees. Pres., James M. Smith; Sec’y, Henry Squire, Charles- 
town ; Treas., Alexander Phemister, 3 Court Av. 
“t, SOCIETE FRANCO-BELGE DE SECOURS MUTUELS 
liothin|,Toans" ’ET DE BIENFAISANCE DE BOSTON, MASS, (incor 18751 
and mutual beue-Codman Hall, 176 Tremont St., Ward X. Apply to Sec'y of 
Bienfaisance, Charles Nolle, 23 Water St. 
Tries to procure employment, and gives food, fuel or clothing, rarely 
loans of money, to deserving French and Belgian persons or their chil- 
dren. About $BOO spent yearly, for about 75 persons. 
French and Belgian men or their sons, aged 20 to 50, by paying $3.50 
to $5.50 admission, 50 cts. monthly, and occasionally other 50 cts. assess- 
ments, receive $5 a week during 3 months’ sickness, then less than that 
if sickness continues longer; $3O for funeral expenses; $25 to family of 
deceased if in need. Societe de Bienfaisance, Pres., E. de Saptea, Studio 
Building. Societe Mutuelle, Pres., W. Toussaint, Brookline; Sec'v A 
Ingenhoven. Treas. (of both), C. L. Thiery, 309 Washington St. 
m“thinl°°d’ ERMAN AID SOCIETY (incor. 1848), Room 39, Charity 
rent, transporta- Building, Chai'don St., Ward VII. Apply to Aqent M. Kall- 
tion, employment mann IQ to 12. 
procured, money. ’ 
Extends a helping hand to German immigrants, principally in aiding 
them to employment, and providing temporary support; also, aids poor 
German strangers and residents. Relief in money, provisions, fuel, 
clothing, board and rent; and railroad tickets to go elsewhere if work is 
not procured here. The agent investigates personally each case, and 
recommends to the committee of relief. About $1,500 spent yearly, and 
about 800 cases aided. Pres., Louis Weisbein, 3 State St,; Sec’y, Geo. J. 
Walther, 14 West St.; Treas., Werner Malsh, 16 Arch St. AID FOR FOREIGNERS. 
31 
HOLLAND CHURCH, page 96. Hollanders. 
CHARITABLE IRISH SOCIETY (1737, incor. 1809). especiaUy 
Relieves its poor and indigent countrymen reduced by sickness, old age 
?nd other infirmities, or by unforeseen accidents. A special fund for 
immigrants needing temporary assistance. Contributes annually to char- 
itable institutions, etc. Directors. Pres., Edw. Ryan, 99 State St.; 
£?CV> John A. Daly, 46 No. Market St.; Treas., John Conlon, 210 
Eincoln St. 
UNITED HEBREW BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. Israelites. Food, 
Apply at the Office, Room 3, 105 Summer St., Ward X. bedding nlnV 
Affords relief, usually temporary (food, fuel, clothing, bedding, furni- lure’ materials 
ture, materials for work, medical attendance, nurses, or money), to attendance 
needy and worthy Israelites, after investigation. Aims to make appli- nurses, or money, 
cants self-supporting. Report published annually, in February. Annual 
expenditure about $2,000. Pres., Jacob H. Hecht, 74 Pearl St.; Treas., 
Charles Morse; Sec’y, B. J. Shoninger, P. O. Box 3046. 
HEBREW LADIES’ SEWING SOCIETY (1878). Apply Israelites. Cloth- 
to Pres., Mrs. J. H. Hecht, 113 Commonwealth Av., or to any ing- 
officer, from Nov. 1 to May 1. 
Dispenses during the winter months clothing, blankets, etc., to poor 
and needy Hebrews, upon personal application after a thorough investi- 
gation. Expended in 1879-80, §1,200; aided 77 families. Managers, who 
are also Visitors. 
ITALIAN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (1869). Apply in Italians. Grocer- 
writing to Pres., A, Garbati, 58 Lowell St.: or to any member ies>coal’ cloth‘ 
of Committee. mg’money- 
Gives sick benefit, $6 a week, to members, and pays physician; gro- 
ceries, coal and clothing to needy Italians of good character, temperate 
and honest. About $3OO spent yearly, and from 30 to 40 persons aided. 
PORTUGUESE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (mutual), page Portuguese 
78. ° Mutual benefit. 
PORTUGUESE UNION (mutual), page 78. Portuguese. 
Mutual benefit. 
new ENGLAND SCANDINAVIAN BENEVOLENT SO- Scandinavians. 
CIETY (incor. 1853). Meet 3 Tremont Row, First Monday in money^ctc.110'1’ 
each month. Apply to Pres., N. P. Lindergreen, 99 State St. 
Gives sick benefit, $1 per day, for 90 days in a year; death benefit $35, 
and besides as many dollars as members. Occasionally helps Scandi- 
navians, and men or women of Scandinavian parentage, in gre’at need. 
Admission fee, $3 to $7 according to age; $1 per month for 12 months; 
alter that, 50 cts. per month. About $3OO given yearly in charity outside 
ct membership, chiefly for transportation. Capital, over $3,000. Direc- 
tors. Sec’y, M. C. Adelof, 131 Federal St.; Treas., John F. Gunnarson. 
SCOTS’ CHARITABLE SOCIETY (1657, incor. 1786). Scotch. rood, 
Apply at the Scots' Temporary Home, 77 Camden St.. Ward ciST* 
■NVIII., or to Chairman of Charities, Wm. Grant, 200 Lincoln buria1' money, 
bt., 
Relieves, after proper investigation, worthy Scotch .people or their 32 
AID FOR FOREIGNERS. 
families; gives rent, food, fuel, clothing, money; also information and 
advice. Shelter and aid are given at the Home, and the expense of trans- 
portation to friends in America or Scotland is sometimes paid. THE 
WOMAN’S AUXILIARY BOARD distributes clothing, and aids the 
unfortunate in other ways. Permits for burial in their Mount Auburn 
Lot given by the Trustees of the Society. Report published annually in 
January. About $4,000 spent yearly. Trustees. Pres., James Bogle; 
Sec’y, Alexander T. Laughton, 381 Washington St.; Treas., John 
Sutherland. 
Swiss. Board, SWISS AID SOCIETY (1865). Apply to Agent E. von 
transportation, T, orv r, . t, , v 1 u 
burial, loans to Euw, 20 Conant St., Roxbury. 
purchase tools, . . 
employment pro- Assists needy Swiss immigrants; also Swiss residents when in distress. 
cured, money. Members who have paid the annual fee ($2 for men, $1 for women) find 
proper protection when in need. Aid extended here and in Switzerland 
in extraordinary calamities. Usual relief, 25 cts. to $5, mostly for board 
and travelling tickets; $5 to $lO in cases of sickness, etc.; $lO to $4O in 
cases of prolonged sickness, passages to Europe, burial expenses, etc. 
Small loans to reliable parties for the purchase of tools with which to 
make a living. Members (of any nationality) can obtain charity cards 
of the secretary, by which applicants may be referred to the agent, who 
provides work, support, or otherwise aids by the advice of the Committee. 
In 1878, spent $2OO, and pecuniarily assisted 33 cases. Pres., Chas. 
Scheidegger, 5 Hartopp PI.; Sec’y, Emanuel Fischer, 70 State St.; Treas., 
Albert Geiger, 6 Oliver St. SICK AND DEFECTIVE FREE NURSES, ETC. 
CLASS VI.—SICK AND DEFECTIVE. 
[The marginal notes do not give a synopsis of all the work done hy an organ- 
ization, but of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of 
the page.] 
AMBULANCE SERVICE. Application at any Police Sta- Ambulance and 
tion, or at office of Sup’t of Police, City Hall, will insure promptstretchers- 
despatch. 
The ambulance service is performed hy and under the direction of the 
Hospitals (City and Mass. Gen.). Each Police Station is provided with a 
stretcher, available at all times. 
It is proposed to establish a Mass. Railroad Ambulance Corps, for the 
purpose of furnishing speedy and trustworthy relief to sufferers by rail- 
road accidents, the headquarters of the corps in Boston to be in telephonic 
communication with all the railroads and the Mass. Gen. Hospital. 
THE HOSPITAL NEWSPAPER SOCIETY (18—), 113 Re-Beading distrib- 
vere St., Ward IX. "‘ced t0 llospita,s 
Newspapers, and other reading matter, new or old, are collected from 
boxes placed in the Railway Stations, or received at 113 Revere St., and 
distributed at once to the inmates of hospitals, insane asylums, and the 
State penal institutions. In 1879, distributed 5,400 magazines, 432 bound 
■volumes, 65,000 daily papers, 2,200 Christmas cards, etc. Arthur Dexter, 
66 Beacon St. 
FREE NURSES, RIDES, Etc.; 
SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE SICK POOR. Nursing and re- 
(1876). Apply to Dispensary Physicians of the North End. Ie 111 lomes' 
Work limited to North End at present. 
Gives personal care and competent nursing to sick North End poor in 
their own homes, who, for any cause, cannot avail themselves of the ad- 
vantages of a hospital, often because of acute or infectious diseases; re- 
lieves distress immediately consequent upon sickness, by furnishing bed- 
ding, fuel, clothing, food, and medicines. Aid limited to persons recom- 
rnended by the Dispensary Physicians, and strictly under their orders and 
directions. The Sisters of St. Margaret of the Episcopal Church (17 Bow- 
doin Street), many of them thoroughly trained as nurses, labor gratui- 
tously with their own hands, performing, when necessary, the most 
menial work. This Society does not associate itself with any particular 
religious communion. Report published annually, in December. About 
$l,OOO spent yearly, and over 100 sick persons relieved. Directors. Pres., SICK AND DEFECTIVE—GENERAL HOSPITALS. 
Rob’t Codman, 68 Chestnut St.; Treas., Mrs. C. L. Peirson, 191 Com- 
monwealth Av.; Sec’y, Mrs. James Lodge, 129 Mt. Vernon St. 
Widows and sick POOR WIDOWS’ FUND, page 28 
persons. Belief. ’ 1 => 
Kidessexes' BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN UNION, page 88. 
GENERAL HOSPITALS: 
Both sexes. MASSACHUSETTS HOMCEOPATHIC HOSPITAL (incor. 
omoeopa hc. opened 1871), East Concord St., between Harrison Av. 
and Albany St., Ward XVIII. Apply to House Physician, Dr. 
Edward O. Eckert, 11 to 12. 
Strictly homoeopathic treatment given to patients at prices ranging from 
$7 to $25 per week, including board; and to free patients, so far as the 
funds will permit. The patient should apply in person, when able • if not 
he will be visited, and if admitted the proper papers forwarded to him! 
Cases of accident or extreme necessity admitted without delay. Conta- 
gious diseases, syphilis, delirium tremens, and incurable diseases, ex- 
cluded. No patient allowed to remain longer than twelve weeks, except 
by special consent of the Medical Board. Free patients, who are able, 
assist in nursing, etc. Patients may be visited by a clergyman of their 
own selection. A record is kept of each case. Visitors received Tues- 
days, Thursdays, and Saturdays, from 2 to 4. Report published annu- 
ally, in January. In 1879, average number of patients, 22; paying 
patients, 67; part paying, 17; free, 72; average cost of each patient per 
week, $6.79. Trustees. Pres., Charles R. Codman; Sec’y, Miss Ellen 
Frothingham, 9 Exeter St.; Treas., Isaac Fenno, 28 Summer St.: Matron 
jyjrs pratt 7 * 
THE’LADIES’ AID ASSOCIATION (1870) has established a per- 
manent free bed. Provides flowers, reading, etc., and, when practicable 
religious services on Sunday; has established hospital library, and ob- 
tained permission to take books from the Public Library. Each director 
is responsible for daily visitors to the Hospital, for one month during the 
year. Spend about $l,OOO yearly. Directors. Pres., Mrs. Geo. R. Rus- 
sell; Sec’y, Mrs. F. R. Allen; Treas., Mrs. F. W. Andrews, 187 Beacon 
St. 
Both sexes. BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL (1864), Harrison Av., opp, 
Worcester Sq , Ward XVIII. For admission to hospital, apply 
to Geo. H. M. Rowe, M, D , Resident Physician and Supt" be- 
tween 9 and 11 on week days Surgical out-patients treated 
every week day between 9 and 11. Medical out-patients, and 
Diseases of Women and of the Nervous System, treated on 
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, between 9 and 11. Dis- 
eases of the Eye, Ear, Throat, and Skin, on Mondays, Wednes- 
days, and Fridays, between 9 and 11. Accidents received at 
all hours. 
The City Hospital is established “for the reception of persons who, by 
misfortune or poverty, may require relief during temporary sickness ” 
(City Ordinance), and was founded and is maintained as a hospital for 
the treatment of acute diseases in persons having a legal settlement in 
Boston. In all cases where, in the opinion of the Trustees, the circuni- SICK AND DEFECTIVE GENERAL HOSPITALS. 
35 
stances of the patient will warrant it, the whole or a part of the board 
must be paid at such rate as the Trustees may from time to time de- 
termine. On Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from 2to 3, 
t. m., friends may be permitted to visit patients; though no patient can 
receive more than one visitor on the same day. Positively no admission 
on Sunday. Annual report published inMay. Accommodations for 375 
patients. Annual expenditure about $120,000. During the year 1879-80, 
3,995 patients were treated in the Hospital; and at the various depart- 
ments for out-patients, more than 33,000 visits were made by those seek- 
ing relief. Seven Trustees; five are elected from the citizens at large by 
the City Government, on the nomination of the Mayor, and one from each 
branch of the City Council. Pres., Geo. W. Pope; Sec’y, H. H. Sprague, 
14 Pemberton Sq. 
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES (1878).—Apply to Supf. of City 
Hospital, Boston. A two years’ course of training is given to women de- 
sirous of becoming professional nurses. The most desirable age fora 
candidate is from 25 to 35; she must be in sound health, and present a 
certificate from two responsible persons (one a physician, preferred) as to 
her good character and good health. During the first month of proba- 
tion, she is boarded and lodged at the Hospital, and if then accepted as a 
pupil, receives $lO a month during the first year (besides board and lodg- 
ing) ; $l4 a month during the second year; and, upon graduation, a 
diploma. Pupils are employed as assistant nurses in the Hospital. The 
instruction is given mainly by the Superintendent of the School and the 
head nurses. The government of the Hospital and the School reserve the 
right to exclude or discharge any person from the School for an)’ suffi- 
cient reason. 
CARNEY HOSPITAL (1863, incor 1865), Old Harbor St, Both sexes. 
South Boston, Ward XIY, Apply to Sister Superior, 8 to 6. 
Affords care, board, medical treatment, and clothing to patients of any 
creed, color, or nationality, suffering from any disease (even chronic), not 
infectious. Those who are able, pay. Convalescents are kept for a time, 
and situations are often secured for them. Visitors admitted from 10 to 
5. Spends about $25,000 yearly, and receives about 600 patients. In 
charge of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Charity. 
OUT-DOOR DEPARTMENT FOR THE TREATMENT OF DIS- 
EASES OF THE EYE (1877)— For the poor. 
ST. MARY’S INFANT ASYLUM AND LYING-IN HOSPITAL 
{formerly St. Ann’s, 1868, incor. 1870), Bowdoin St., Dorchester, Ward 
XXIV. Apply to Sister Superior at the Asylum. Maintains found- 
lings, orphans, and half-orphans, and accommodates deserving, indigent 
females of any religion during confinement. No patient refused on ac- 
count of inability to pay. "Room for 10 patients and 50 children. 
Pounded by Romanist Sisters of Charity. Physician, E. D. Peters, Jr., 
M. D. 
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL (incor. 1811, Both sexes, 
opened 1821), Blossom St,, at West end of McLean St., Ward 
IX. Apply to Resident Physician, James H. Whittemore, 
M. D.; hospital patients from 9to 11, and from 3to 4, Sundays 
excepted ; dispensary patients from 9 to 10, A. M , only, Sun- 
days excepted Accidents at all hours. 
Any person suffering with acute non-contagious disease is admitted; 
215 beds, 140 free. There is & fund for wooden legs for patients. Visiting SICK AND DEFECTIVE—SPECIAL HOSPITALS. 
hours 11.30 to 12.30, except Sundays; no patient allowed more than one 
visitor a day. Report published annually, in January. During'the last 
10 years, the average yearly expense for charity has been $65,000. In 
1879, average number of patients, 163. A Home for Convalescents at 
Belmont is begun. President of Corporation, Henry B. Rogers; Treas., 
Francis H. Peabody, 40 State St.; Sec’y, Thomas B. Hall, 75 State St.; 
Chairman of Trustees, Samuel Eliot. 
BOSTON TRAINING-SCHOOL FOR NURSES (1873, incor. 1875). 
—Apply to Sec’y, Miss M. A. Wales, 19 Brimmer St.—Trains women as 
thorough professional nurses. They must be between 25 and 36, in sound 
health, and of good moral character, with common-school education. 
During the first month of probation they are boarded and lodged. If ac- 
cepted as pupils, the course is for two years. The pay for the first year, 
$lO a month; second year become full nurses, with increased pay, and 
at the end of the term receive diplomas. Twenty-four Lady Directors. 
Treas., Charles P. Curtis, 24 Exchange Place. 
DENIAL INFIRMARY. Apply 2P. M.—Affords gratuitous dental 
treatment to poor persons, who pay only for valuable material used. 
Under the Dental School of Harvard University. Dean, T. Chandler 
D. M. D. 
McLEAN ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE (1818), Washington St., 
Somerville. Apply to one of the Trustees. John McLean bequeathed 
$lOO,OOO to the Asylum. Patients of all classes are admitted on commit- 
ment by a justice of the Supreme Judicial, Superior, Municipal, Police, 
or District Court, or by a Judge of Probate, under Chap. 195, Statutes of 
1879. A certificate is required, signed by two legally qualified physi- 
cians, who have examined the person in question within five days of the 
date of the certificate, and certify that said person is insane, and a proper 
subject for treatment in an insane hospital. Board $l5 to $5O per week. 
In 1879, average 157 patients; about three-fifths pay nothing, or less than 
cost. Owns 107 acres in Belmont as a site for a new hospital. Supt. 
Edward Cowles, M.D. ’’ 
SPECIAL HOSPITALS: 
Seamen, not na- UNITED STATES MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE 
(1798). Hospital, Chelsea. Apply between 9 and 4 in sum- 
mer, and 9 and 3 in winter, at the office, Custom House, cor. 
State and India Sts., Ward VI. 
Furnishes medical and surgical relief to the sick and disabled of the 
American mercantile marine and revenue-cutter service (not naval), pro- 
vided the applicant has been employed and paid hospital dues (40 cts. a 
month), for 60 days just previous to application. Satisfactory evidence, 
usually a certificate from the master of a vessel, or a shipping-commis- 
sioner’s discharge, is required. Foreign seamen are also treated, on ap- 
plication of their consuls, at rates fixed from time to time. Accommo- 
dates 100. Friends of patients admitted on application. Annual Report 
of the Supervising Surgeon-General at Washington. About 1,200 seamen 
are treated at Boston during each year. The Service is under the Treas- 
ury Department. In charge of Service at Port of Boston, Jno. Yansant, 
U. S. M. H. S.; on duty at Custom House, Francis H. Brown, Assistant- 
Surgeon, U. S. M. H. S. 
Kavai seamen. UNITED STATES NAVAL HOSPITAL, Chelsea, con- 
nected with the Navy Yard, Charlestown. 
Affords care and medical treatment to sick and disabled men of the SICK AND DEFECTIVE SPECIAL HOSPITALS. 
37 
naval service. 100 beds. Medical Director, W. T. Hord, M. D.; Sur- 
geon, Joseph Hugg, M. D. 
BOSTON LYING-IN HOSPITAL (incor. 1832), 24 McLean Women. Lying 
St., Ward YIII. Apply to Visiting Physician, Wm. L. Rich-111- 
ardson, M. D., or A. D. Sinclair, M. 1)., at 10, except Sunday; at 
least one week before expected date of confinement, when 
possible. 
Open to married women, and to unmarried women pregnant for the 
first time. No woman with a second illegitimate child admitted, and the 
greatest care taken to exclude women of bad or even doubtful character. 
A few free cases taken. Lowest fee, $2O for confinement and the two 
succeeding weeks. Only relatives of the patients admitted as visitors, 3to 
4p. m., daily, except Sunday. Report published annually, after Febru- 
ary. Yearly expense about $5,500; average number of patients, 17. 
Pres., Abbott Lawrence; Treas., Lemuel Shaw, 27 State St.; Sec’y, Rev. 
Henry F. Jenks, 2 Mt. Vernon St.; Matron, Mrs. E. J. A. Higgins. 
ST. MARY’S LYING-IN HOSPITAL, page 35. women. Lying 
in. 
FREE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN (1875, incor. 1879), 60 Diseases of wo- 
East Springfield St., Ward XVIII. Apply to Visiting Surgeon, men- 
William H. Baker, M. D , 10 Beacon St. 
Gives free medical and surgical treatment in the hospital and dispen- 
sary, to worthy women afflicted with diseases peculiar to their sex, and 
unable to pay. Any individual or society supporting a free bed ($l5O 
annually), may fill it, subject to the approval of the medical staff. 15 
beds. Lady visitors attend to details of cleanliness and comfort. Visitors 
to patients admitted on Tuesdays and Fridays, 10 to 1. Report published 
annually, in November. Annual expenses about $4,000; about 90 
patients in hospital, and 200 in dispensary. Trustees. Pres., Henry C. 
Haven; Sec’y, J. W. Woods, 25 Kingston St.; Treas., Edwin H. Samp- 
son, High, cor. Federal St. 
ST. ELIZABETH’S HOSPITAL (1868, incor. 1872), 78 Wal-women, 
tham St., Ward XVII. Apply to the Sister Superior. 
Cares for sick poor women of any denomination. 38 beds. Nearly all 
patients free. Supported by voluntary contributions received daily from 
door to door. In charge of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis 
(Catholic). Corps of Physicians and Surgeons. 
ST JOSEPH’S HOME FOR SICK AND DESTITUTE Servant girls. 
SERVANT GIRLS, page 63. 
NEW ENGLAND HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHIL- Women and chit 
DREN (1862, incor. 1863), Codman Av. between Washington dren‘ 
and Amory Sts., Ward XXIII. Apply to Resident Physician, 
Ur. Sarah M. Crawford, 11 to 2. 
Provides medical care from educated women physicians, and gives to 
young women opportunities for clinical study, which other hospitals 
afford to young men. 15 free beds. Paying patients $lO per week and 
upwards. Visitors admitted daily from 2 to sp. m. Report published 
annually in November. In 1879, current expenses, $23,551, and 263 pa- 
tients received. Directors. Pres., Miss Lucy Goddard; Sec’y, Mrs. Ednah 38 
SICK AND DEFECTIVE—SPECIAL HOSPITALS. 
D. Cheney, Jamaica Plain; Treas. Geo. A. Goddard, 50 Equitable Build- 
ing. 
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES.—The pupils (women) must 
be in good health, and those between 21 and 31 years of age are preferred. 
They are supported by the Hospital during the term of 16 months, when 
diplomas of competency are bestowed. 
DISPENSARY, 19 Fayette St., Ward XII. Patients received daily 
from 9 to 10 a. m.—Gives medical advice to needy women and children, 
and medicine at 25 cts. a bottle, or free, if certified unable to pay. Visits 
made at the homes of those not able to attend (in South Boston and the 
central and south part of the city proper). Nearly self-supporting; 
about 5,000 patients annually. 
women and chii- HOUSE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN (incor. 1860), 6 
incuraWeSs!eoialy McLean St., Ward YIII. Apply between 9 and 12, except 
Sunday. 
Gives free hospital care and treatment to women and girls, and boys 
under 6, irrespective of creed or nationality. Although established 
especially for incurables and chronic sufferers, patients with more acute 
maladies are often received. 27 beds; 10 devoted to children. THE 
CLOTHING CLUB gives out work to poor women, and thus provides 
garments for the House. Burial lot at Mt. Hope. Visitors to patients 
admitted from 11.30 to 12.30, and from 3.30 to 4.30, on Mondays, Wednes- 
days and Fridays, each patient being allowed but one at a time. Episcopal 
services regularly, but religious freedom allowed. Report published an- 
nually, in January. About $ll,OOO spent yearly; average number of 
patients, 27. Managers. Pres., Mrs. G. C. Shattuck; Treas., Chas. F. 
Shimmin, 5 Pemberton Bq.; Sec’y, Miss Anne S. Robbins, who resides 
at the House and superintends it. 
Women and chii- THE CHANNING HOME (1857, incor. 1861), 30 McLean 
dron. Chiefly m-TXT , T7rrT ' 
curables. St., Ward YIII. 
Affords an asylum for poor invalids, women and children, chiefly those 
who are incurable and need constant medical assistance and tender care. 
No pay received. Number of patients limited to 16; supported by a 
fund, and annual subscriptions. Yearly expenditure averages $3,500. 
Directors. Pres., Sam’l L. Green, M. D.; Clerk, Charles P. Curtis; 
Treas., Theo. Metcalf; Physicians, Drs. A. L. Mason, J. B. Ayer, and T. 
M. Rotch; Matron, Eliza McDonnell. 
Women and chii- ST. LUKE’S HOME FOR CONYALESCENTS (1870, 
cents. Coilvales‘incor. 1872), 149 Roxbury St., Ward XIX. Applicants 
examined at the Home Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 
at 10. 
Provides gratuitous care and medical treatment to women (chiefly 
domestics) and children of any nationality or religion, convalescent from 
disease. Situations found upon discharge, when possible. Private 
patients pay board. Accommodates 26 persons; 161 admitted 1877-8. 
Episcopal services. Patients’ friends admitted on Tuesdays and Fri- 
days, from 9to 11 a. m., others at any time. Report published annu- 
ally, in October. Lady Associates, two of whom are a visiting commit- 
tee each month. Trustees. Pres., Rt. Rev. Benj. H. Paddock, D. D.; 
Treas., R- S. Fay, 37 Franklin St.; Sec’y, Causten Browne, 82 Water 
St.; Matron, Mrs. P. R. Wills; Physicians, Drs. Rotch, Haven, Daven- 
port and Sabine. SICK AND DEFECTIVE—SPECIAL HOSPITALS. 
39 
THE SEA-SHORE HOME (1875, incor. 1877), Winthrop, children. Some- 
Mass , cor. Main and Herman sts. Apply to Hr. W. H. H. seasid™resort.' 
Hastings, at the Boston Dispensary, cor. Bennet and Ash sts., 
9 to 11. 
Furnishes a healthful resort for sick and weakly children from about 
July Ist to middle of September. No contagious diseases received. 
The mothers of very young or nursing children allowed to accompany 
them. The house accommodates about 40 persons. Visitors welcome. 
Report published annually. Directors. Pres., Rev. Edward E. Hale; 
Treas., Benjamin Kimball, 11 Tremont Bank Building, cor. State and 
Congress Sts.; Sec’y, George Thacher,4o State St., Room 26; Physician, 
Edw. T. Williams. 
THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL (incor. 1869), 1583 Wash-children, 
ington St., Ward XVIII. Apply for admission at 9A. M.; cases 
of emergency received at any time. Department for Out 
Patients open daily at 10 A. m. 
Gives medical and surgical treatment to children from 2 to 12 years, 
if poor gratuitously; if parents or guardians are able to pay, at a mod- 
erate charge. No infectious or contagious diseases, and no chronic or 
incurable cases admitted, unless there be urgent symptoms capable of 
being relieved; 30 beds. Visitors to patients are admitted daily from 
11 to 12, but not more than one to a patient at a time; visitors to the 
Hospital are admitted at any time except Sundays. The nursing is 
directed by the Protestant Episcopal Sisters of St. Margaret. Report 
published annually. $9,000 spent yearly, and about 150 patients are 
received. A larger hospital is proposed. THE CONVALESCENT 
HOME AT WELLESLEY, with 18 beds, receives patients from the 
Hospital, from May until October. Managers. Pres., Nath’l Thayer; 
Treas., John G Wetherell, 2 Hancock Av.; Sec’y, Francis H. Brown, 
M. D., 97 Waltham St. 
THE LADIES’ AID ASSOCIATION (1869) supplies articles of 
furniture and clothing, visits and takes a personal interest in the children. 
Pres., Mrs. R. O. Winthrop, 90 Marlboro’ St.; Treas., Miss Thacher, 12 
Mt. Vernon St,; Sec’y, Miss Storer, 182 Boylston St. 
MASSACHUSETTS INFANT ASYLUM, page 55. infants. 
CANCER HOME (1878), Walpole, Mass. Apply to Hr. Both sexes. 
Charles Cullis, 16 Somerset St. Boston. car™er?patWo‘ 
Cares for poor cancer patients. A part of “ A Work of Faith ” (page 
86). 
CONSUMPTIVES’ HOME (1864, incor. 1870), cor. Warren noth sexes. 
St., and Blue Hill Ay., Grove Hall, Ward XXL Apply to Hr. Som®opatlhic- 
Charles Cullis, Founder and Treas., 16 Somerset St. 
Cares for consumptive poor, of whatever nation, creed or color, having 
no home or friends to provide for them. Accommodates 80 patients. A 
part of “ A Work of Faith ” (page 86). The Homes may be visited by 
four parties daily (Sundays excepted), at 11 and 11.30 a. m., and 3 and 
3.30 p. m. Trustees. 
Two HOMES FOR CHILDREN—Receive children of patients in this 
or the Spinal Home, who remain until parents recover, or after death of 
parents are adopted by the Horae. SICK AND DEFECTIVE—GENERAL DISPENSARIES. 
Both sexes. SPINAL HOME (1876), Grove Hall, cor. Warren St. and 
Spinal diseases. Blue Hill Av., Ward XXL Apply to Dr. Charles Cullis, 16 
Somerset St. 
Cares for poor spinal patients, A part of “ A Work of Faith” (page 
86). 
Two HOMES FOR CHILDREN—Receive children of patients in this 
or the Consumptives’ Home, who remain until parents recover, or after 
death of parents are adopted by the Home. 
Both sexes. ADAMS NERYINE ASYLUM, (incor. 1877), Centre St, 
Nervous dts- West Roxbury, Ward XXIII. Apply to SupL, F. W. Page, 
M. D. 
Name received from its founder, the late Seth Adams, who bequeathed 
property valued at $600,000 for the purpose of establishing and main- 
taining a hospital to afford care and relief to indigent, debilitated and 
nervous persons of both sexes, inhabitants of this Commonwealth, who 
are not insane. Paying patients received. The estate of 24 acres has a large 
dwelling-house, and an additional building is to be completed in the sum- 
mer of 1880; the capacity of the two buildings will be for about 30 patients. 
Female patients only are received at present. Trustees and Managers. 
Pres., Henry P. Kidder, 40 State St; Treas., C. W. Loring, 17 Pemberton 
Sq.; Sec’y, James C. Davis, 30 Court St. 
Both sexes. SMALL POX HOSPITAL (1877), near rear entrance of 
‘lll,l pox‘ Forest Hill Cemetery, Canterbury St., Ward XXIII. Apply at 
the office of the Board of Health, 32 Pemberton Sq. 
Arranged upon the improved German hospital plan for contagious dis- 
eases. 50 patients can be received, and there are 6 paying patients’ 
rooms. 
GENERAL DISPENSARIES: 
Diet kitchen. BOSTON NORTH END DIET KITCHEN (1874), rear of 
34 Lynde St., Ward YIII.; open daily from 11 to 1. Limited 
to the district bounded by the water, Central Wharf, Milk, 
Washington, Winter, Tremont, Boylston and Arlington sts, 
Commonwealth Av., and Parker St., including the North and 
West End. Apply to the Dispensary Physician of the district, 
(page 41). 
Gives nourishing food daily to applicants who bring orders from Dis- 
pensary Physicians. Any person can purchase the diets at cost. Report 
published annually in January. About $3,000 spent each year; nearly 
40,000 diets were given out in 1878. Committee: Mrs. James Brown, 
Mrs. Dwight Foster, Miss Helen Paine, and Miss Mary Anne Wales, 19 
Brimmer St. 
Diet kitchen. ' SOUTH END DIET KITCHEN (1875), 19 Bennet St., Ward 
South End. XII.; open 11 to 1, except Sundays. Apply at the Dispensa- 
ries or to one of the managers. 
Supplies nourishing food to sick poor living between Essex St. and the 
Roxbury line, on orders from physicians of any Dispensary within that 
district. These orders state what diet is to be given, and for how long. SICK AND DEFECTIVE—GENERAL DISPENSARIES. 
41 
Report published annually in January in the daily papers. In 1879, ex- 
pended $1,493, for the relief of 10,195 persons. 12 Managers. Pres., 
Mrs. Osborne Howes, 67 Chester Sq.; Treas. and Sec’y, Miss E. Kate 
"Wales, 19 Chester Square. 
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL DISPENSARY (incor. 1856) . Both sexes 
Central Dispensary, 11 Burroughs PL, Ward XII., 10 to 12; Tnatoenqmedi- 
College Dispensary, E. Concord St., Ward XYIIL, 9t012 ; West ctnes,attendance. 
End Branch, Room 5, Charity Building, Chardon St., Ward 
VII., 10 to 11. Apply to the Attending Physician any day, 
except Sunday. 
Provides homoeopathic treatment and medicine gratuitously to persons 
unable to pay. Very sick patients visited at their homes. In 1877 over 
10,000 persons aided, at an expense of about $l,OOO. Pres., Hon. Otis 
Clapp, 3 Beacon St.; Treas., Dr. H. C. Angell, 16 Beacon St.; Sec’y, Dr. 
I. T. Talbot, 66 Marlboro’ St.; Supt., Dr. H. C. Clapp, 544 Tremont St. 
CHARLESTOWN FREE DISPENSARY AND HOSPITAL sexes 
(1872, incor. 1873), 27 Harvard Sq., Charlestown, Ward Y.medicines. Kesi- 
Limited to residents of Charlestown. Apply on Monday, of Charles" 
Wednesday and Friday, at 12 M. 
Gives medical and surgical advice and assistance to the sick poor. 
Those who are able, pay for treatment. A list is kept of those who wish 
employment. Report published annually in April. About $3OO spent 
yearly, and during the year ending April, 1879, about 1,600 persons aided. 
Managers. Pres., Henry Lyon, M. D.; Treas., Benj, F. Stacey, Thomp- 
son Sq.; Sec’y, Gerald Wyman, 4 Exchange PL, Room 12; Supt., Edw. 
J. Forster, M. D., 22 Monument Sq. 
ROXBURY CHARITABLE SOCIETY, page 19. Both sexes. 
r ° Koxbury. 
BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL, page 35. Both sexes. 
° Treatment, medi- 
cines,attendance 
BOSTON DISPENSARY (1796, incor. 1801). Central Both sexes. 
Office, cor. Bennet and Ash sts., Ward XII.; open for medical cines™ttcnd-ed' 
and surgical advice daily, from 9toll A M,; dental patients at P 
10; diseases of skin and nervous diseases at 11; medicines East Boston!1 
dispensed from 8 to 6 ; Sundays and legal holidays from 9 to 
10 a. m. Orders for physicians may be left;— For East Boston, 
with Geo. W. Copeland, M. D., 50 Maverick Sq.; for the North 
End, with C. E. Eames, apothecary, 896 Hanover St.; for the 
West End, with Emery Souther, apothecary, 75 Green St.; for 
South Boston, and the remaining portion of the city proper, at 
the Central office. 
Furnishes free medical attendance and medicine to the sick poor within 
old city limits. At the Central Office, medicines are prepared and given 
out on prescriptions of the house and distinct physicians, and patients are 
regularly treated; those unable to call at the Central Office are visited in 
their homes. An officer inquires into the financial condition of applicants. 
Annual Report published in November. Over 170,000 recipes dispensed 
in 1879; about $9,000 spent each year. Managers. Chairman, J. 11. 42 
SICK AND DEFECTIVE—BLIND, ETC. 
Wolcott; Sec’y and Treas., Arthur Lincoln; Supt., W. H. H. Hastings, 
Ss,. MASS. GENERAL HOSPITAL, page 35. 
medicine. 
SPECIAL DISPENSARIES : 
Diseases of wo- DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF WOMEN (1873), 18 
treatment?06 and Stamford St, Ward YII. Apply to James R, Chadwick, M. D, 
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10 to 12. 
Gives advice and treatment, but no medicines, to the needy poor, for 
diseases peculiar to women. About $l4O spent yearly, and 500 persons 
treated. 
men?midmedi-'* FREE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, page 37. 
cines. 
ment and medi-*" THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, page 39. 
cines. 
Children. Treat- DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF CHILDREN (1873), 
18 Stamford St., Ward YII. Patients received on Tuesday, 
Thursday, and Saturday, at 10 A. M. Physician, Chas P. Put- 
nam, M. D. 
Affords medical care to poor and sick children. 
dtmenl NEW ENGLAND HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN AND CHlL- 
and attendance. DREN (DISPENSARY), page 37. 
Dentai?xes" BOSTON DENTAL COLLEGE, page 80. 
DENTAL INFIRMARY, MASS. GENERAL HOSPITAL, 
page 35. 
andhearxes' Ey° MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE EYE AND EAR IN- 
FIRMARY (1824, incor. 1826), 176 Charles St., Ward IX. 
Apply any day, except Sunday, 9 to 11 a, at. 
Gratuitously relieves or cures diseases of the eye and ear, for those 
who cannot afford to go elsewhere. Patients are requested to come in 
the earliest stage of the disease. House-patients pay at least $5 a week, 
—three weeks’ board, in advance; friends received 11 to 12, except Sun- 
day. 50 beds. Physicians invited to attend any day, 9to 11; students 
on Mondays and Fridays. Report published annually, in October. In 
1879, expenses $15,154; 9,559 patients, 505 being house-patients. The 
State makes an annual grant; in 1879, $9,000. The surgeons give their 
services. Managers. Pres., Calvin Ellis, M. D.; Treas , Franklin H. 
Story, 40 State St.; Sec’y, Edward I. Browne, 47 State St.; Sup’t, Geo. 
Stedman, M. D. 
Both sexes. Eye. EYE DISPENSARY, CARNEY HOSPIT AL, page 35. 
BLIND : 
Young blind per- PERKINS INSTITUTION AND MASSACHUSETTS 
Trades'taugiitj SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND (1829), 553 East Broadway, 
books loaned,’ Ward XIY. Office, 37 Avon St. Apply to M, Anagnos, Sec'y 
fo?aduftsfreUef!and Director, at the institution. SICK AND DEFECTIVE—DEAF AND DUMB. 
43 
Promotes the intellectual, moral, and physical culture and the social 
elevation of the blind, and trains them in trades and professions. A 
school and not an asylum.' Young blind persons of good character ad- 
mitted by paying's3oo per annum (which covers all expenses except 
clothing; if indigent, admitted gratuitously, on a warrant from the Gov- 
ernor. Blind adults living outside are employed in the Work Department, 
and paid. Publishes embossed books and maps for the blind. Books 
loaned gratuitously to the blind on sufficient security. Friends of pupils 
received at any time; others on Thursday from 11 to 1. Avei’age num- 
ber of inmates, 155. Usual period of tuition, sto 7 years. The State 
grants $30,000 yearly. Report published annually, in October. Trustees. 
Pres., Dr. Samuel Eliot; Treas., Henry Endicott; Medical Inspector, 
John Homans, M. D. 
HARRIS FUND FOR THE BLIND. $BO,OOO (received 1878), one- 
third of the interest to be applied to care, maintenance and relief of indi- 
gent blind persons, preference being given to aged persons living in 
Charlestown. Seven beneficiaries in 1879. 
DEAF AND DUMB: 
AMERICAN ASYLUM FOR THE EDUCATION AND IN- Deaf and dumb 
STRUCTION OF THE DEAF AND DUMB (1817), Hart-™,nand 
ford, Conn. Apply, for the benefit of the legislative appro- 
priation in Massachusetts, to the Secretary of the Board of 
Education, State House, Boston. Pupils admitted only on the 
2d Wednesday of September. 
Provides board and tuition, at $175 per year for each pupil. Appli- 
cants must be between eight and twenty-five, of good intellect, etc. Pres., 
Calvin Day; Treas., Roland Mather; Sec’y, J. C. Parsons; Principal, 
Job Williams, M. A. 
CLARK INSTITUTION FOR DEAF MUTES (1876), Deaf mutes. 
Northampton, Mass. Apply in June for the benefit of the 
legislative appropriation in Massachusetts, to the Secretary of 
the Board of Education, State House, Boston. Pupils admitted 
only on the third Wednesday of September. 
Board and tuition at $3OO per year for private pupils; $2OO for State 
pupils; day scholars, $66. Charges payable semi-annually, in advance. 
Pupils must be at least five years old. State pupils cannot be withdrawn 
except with the consent of the proper authorities of the institution, or of 
the Governor. Visitors admitted Thursday afternoon. In 1879, average 
number of pupils, 74. Pres., F. B. Sanborn, Concord; Clerk, Samuel A. 
Fisk, M. D., Northampton; Treas., Lafayette Maltby, Northampton; 
Principal, Miss Harriet B. Rogers. 
HORACE MANN SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, Warrenton Deaf, mwic 
St., page 81. Sohool- 
- DEAF MUTE SOCIETY (1877), Boylston Hall, Deaf mutes. 
Ward X. Apply to Treas., James Sturgis, 87 Milk St. Money!8’etc' 
Gives religious instruction and weekly lectures in sign language to deaf 
mutes, and promotes then- social and intellectual interests. Occasionally, 
pecuniary relief is given to the deserving and needy. Services Sundays 44 
SICK AND DEFECTIVE—INSANE. 
and Wednesday evenings. Trustees .—James Sturgis, Martin Brimmer 
hrancis Brooks, and Joseph Story; CommitteeJ. T. Tillinghast and 
George A. Holmes, Registry of Deeds, Boston; Agent, Daniel White. 
IDIOTIC AND FEEBLE-MINDED: 
school for idiotic MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL FOR IDIOTIC AND 
y°Uth- FEEBLE-MINDED YOUTH (incor. 1848), 723 East Eighth 
St,, South Boston, Ward XIV, Apply to Ass't Sup't, Dr. Geo. 
G. Tarbell, M. D., 105 Boylston St., 1.30 P. M., or at the school. 
Gives care and instruction to feeble-minded children. Epileptic, in- 
sane, incurably hydrocephalic, or paralytic pupils not retained to the ex- 
clusion of more improvable subjects. Best age for admission, between 
eight and twelve. Children received upon trial for three months, when a 
repoit is made to the parents. Sufficient surety required for the clothing 
of pupils, for their board and care in vacation, and for removal when dis- 
charged. Candidates for gratuitous admission must be over six and 
under fourteen, and must bring a certificate from overseers of the poor, 
stating that their parents and immediate relatives are unable to defray 
the expense of their education. For others, a charge will be made, pro- 
portionate to the means of the parents, and the trouble and cost of treat- 
ing them. Persons applying for admission of children must fill certain 
blanks, which will be forwarded to any address on application. Visitors 
admitted Thursdays, at 10.30. Report published annually, in September. 
State grants $17,500 or more, yearly. Beneficiaries, 55 to 75; average 
number of pupils, 90. Trustees. Pres., Samuel Eliot, LL.D.; Treas., F. 
W. G. May; Sec’y, W. Brandt Storer; Sup’t, Edw. Jarvis, M. D. 
MtoHcandfeeWe- OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, page 20. 
almshouse. 
INSANE : 
Both sexes. BOSTON LUNATIC HOSPITAL (1839), First St., near M, 
South Boston, Ward XIV. Apply to Directors of Public Insti- 
tutions, 30 Pemberton Sq., or at Hospital 
Patients having settlements in Boston, admitted on commitment by a 
justice of the Supreme Judicial, Superior, Municipal, Police or District 
Court, or by the Judge of Probate, under Chap. 195, Statutes of 1879. A 
certificate is required, signed by two legally qualified physicians, who 
have examined the person in question, within five days of the date of the 
certificate, and certify that said person is insane and a proper subject for 
treatment in an insane hospital. 
Cases chiefly chronic. Board paid by those who are able. Average 
number of inmates, 167. Average cost of each, $4.64 per week. In charge 
“ the Directors of Public Institutions. Supt. and Physician, C. A. 
Walker, M. D. 
The city has bought a site for a Lunatic Plospital in Winthrop. 
Both sexes. McLEAN ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, MASS GEN’L 
HOSPITAL, page 36. 
Both sexes. STATE LUNATIC HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS. Under 
the State Board ot Health, Lunacy, and Charity, page 13. 
Apply to Directors of Public Institutions, 30 Pemberton Sq, SICK AND DEFECTIVE—INSANE. 
45 
Patients admitted on commitment by a justice of the Supreme Judicial, 
Superior, Municipal, Police or District Court, or by a Judge of Probate, 
15Oder Chapter 195, Statutes of 1879. A certificate is required, signed by 
two legally qualified physicians, who have examined the person in ques- 
tion, within five days of the date of the certificate, and certify that said 
Person is insane and a proper subject for treatment in an insane hospital. 
Cities and towns pay for the board and care of persons having settle- 
ments. About three-fifths of the inmates are paid for by towns, three- 
eighths by the State, and one-ninth by individuals. 
WORCESTER HOSPITAL (1833), 275 acres, cultivated in part by the 
inmates. In 1879, average number of patients, 493; average weekly cost 
for each, §3.78. Trustees. Supt., Dr. John G. Park, M. D. 
TAUNTON HOSPITAL (1854). In 1879, average number of patients, 
564; average weekly cost for each, $3.28. Trustees. Supt., Dr. John P. 
Brown. 
NORTHAMPTON HOSPITAL (1858). Many of the patients work 
on the farm, over 300 acres. In 1879, average number of patients, 437; 
average weekly cost for each, $3.27. Trustees. Supt., Dr. Pliny Earle. 
DANVERS HOSPITAL (1878). Committals from Suffolk County 
usually sent here. In May, 1880, 600 patients; average weekly cost, $4. 
Trustees, Hon. James Sturgis and four others. Supt., Dr. Calvin S. May. 
WORCESTER ASYLUM FOR THE CHRONIC INSANE (1877). 
For paupers only. In 1879, average number of patients, 367; average 
weekly cost for each, $3. Managed by the Trustees of the Worcester 
Lunatic Hospital. Supt., Dr. John G. Park. 
TEWKSBURY ASYLUM FOR THE CHRONIC INSANE. A de- 
partment of the State Almshouse, and managed hy its Trustees. In 1879, 
average number of patients, 215. Appropriations allow an average cost 
of $2 per week for each inmate. Physician, Dr. Wm. H. Lathrop. 
HOSPITAL NEWSPAPER SOCIETY, page 33. fading distrib- 
’ x ° uted to asylums. 46 
FLOWER AND FRUIT MISSIONS. 
CLASS VII.—FLOWER AND FRUIT MISSIONS. 
[The marginal notes do not give a synopsis of all the work done by an organiza- 
tion, bnt of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of the 
page.] 
Flowers and BOSTON FLOWER AND FRUIT MISSION (1869), Hollis 
frmt St. Chapel, Ward XII.; open 8 to 12, Monday and Thursday, 
May to October. 
Flowers, plants, slips, fruit and vegetables are given wherever needed; 
to the sick and infirm poor, to hospitals, dispensaries, missionaries, diet 
kitchens, work-rooms, schools of the poorer districts, etc. Committee of 
12 ladies. Sec’y, Helen W. Tinkham, 377 Beacon St.; Treas., Grace P. 
Appleton, 54 Walnut Av., Iloxbury. 
fruTrca?rid to SHAWMUT UNIYERSALIST FLOWER MISSION (1870), 
poor and sick. Shawmut Universalis! Church, Shawmut Av., below Brookline 
south End, St., yyarcl XYIL; open from 9to 12, Mondays, May till 
October. 
Carries flowers and fruit to all the deserving poor and sick of the South 
End, who are brought to its notice. HOMES—ALMSHOUSES. 
47 
CLASS TiII.—HOMES. 
. [The marginal notes do not give a synopsis of all the work done hy an organi- 
zation, but of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of the 
Page.] 
See Sick and Defective, pages 42 to 45. Blind, deaf and 
’ 1 & dumb. Idiotic 
and feeble- 
minded. Insane. 
See Reform, pages 62, 68. Fallen women 
and girls. Intem- 
perate. 
ALMSHOUSES; 
The Directors of Public Institutions (page 12) have charge 
°f the four city Almshouses. Apply for admission at their 
°ffice, 30 Pemberton Sq., Ward X. 
ALMSHOUSE, RAINSFORD ISLAND, Ward 11. Men. 
Full support is given to adult male paupers, wholly dependent, having 
legal settlement. The few able-bodied paupers cut stone, which is sold 
to the city at market rates with a profit of over $l,OOO, from the first year’s 
trial. The sick are cared for in the hospital. Near relatives and friends 
faay visit once a month. Protestant and Catholic chaplains. Over 400 
tnrnates are admitted yearly; average expense of each, $2.19 per week. 
Supt, Guy C. Underwood. 
ALMSHOUSE, AUSTIN FARM (1877), bounded by Back, Women,chiefly 
Morton, and Canterbury sts,, and Austin Terrace, West Box-aged and mfirm- 
W, Ward XXIII. 
A permanent home for women, chiefly aged and infirm, having a legal 
settlement in Boston. The sick are cared for in the hospital. Relatives 
friends are admitted as visitors at any time. Average expenditure 
tor each inmate, $1.87 per week; average number of inmates, 137. Supt., 
Joel L. Bacon. 
ALMSHOUSE, DEER ISLAND, Ward 11. and chil- 
Includes the Pauper School for Girls (page 54), a nursery, and a 
department for women. Catholic and Protestant services on Sunday. 
Average cost of each inmate, $2.19 per week. The Almshouse Hospital 
is chiefly occupied by aged and infirm female paupers. Supt., Guy C. 
Underwood. 
.ALMSHOUSE, CHARLESTOWN (1849), Alford St., north Adults residents 
side of Mystic River, near Malden Bridge, Ward IY. ° harestown- 48 
HOMES—FOR ADULTS. 
Gives full support to the adult poor of Charlestown. Near relatives 
and friends may visit at any time. Report published yearly, in May. 
In 1879, $6,428 spent; $1.51 per week for each inmate. Average number 
of inmates, 70; lodging is given to about 30 persons yearly, and meals to 
over 1,000. 
Both sexes. STATE ALMSHOUSE (1854), Tewksbury, Mass. Apply 
to Directors of Public Institutions, 30 Pemberton Sq. 
Poor persons, not having known settlements in this State, and . either 
too ill nor violently insane, may be sent here by the city authorities. 
Including an Asylum for the Chronic Insane (page 45), accommo- 
dates 900 persons; average number in 1879, 945; in May, 1880, 929. 
Managed by five Trustees, including two women, under the State Board 
of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, page 13. Supt., W. H. Lathrop, M. D. 
HOMES FOR ADULTS : 
Aged American HOME FOR AGED MEN (incor. 1860), 133 West Spring- 
Bosnton!sidents of field St., Ward XYIII. Apply (in person, if possible) at the 
Home, first Thursday of each month, 4 P. M., to Committee on 
Admission,H. C. Greenleaf, D. Waldo Salisbury, T. C. Amory, 
Martin L. Bradford, and W. Brandt Storer. 
Provides a home for aged and indigent men, and otherwise assists; 
them. Each applicant must furnish testimonials of respectability, and 
freely communicate all facts necessary to a proper understanding of 
his case. He must have seen better days, must be a native of the 
United States, at least 55 years of age, and have resided in Boston the 
ten years preceding application, unless exception is made by a spe- 
cial vote. It is the practice to admit no one whose health demands 
extra attention. Supported therein, in whole or in part, by friends, or 
at the sole expense of the Corporation by paying admission fee of $150; 
inmates who have property or come into the possession of property, 
and remain in the Home, must secure the same to the Corporation. 
The first six months are probational, and persons not confirmed as per- 
manent inmates are refunded the balance of their admission fee; $3 a 
week being deducted for the time they have remained in the Home. 
Each inmate gives his services, when available, for the benefit of the 
Home; strong stimulants and smoking forbidden. There is no inter- 
ference with the freedom of thought and action of the inmates, when 
they do not infringe upon rules indispensable to the general comfort. 
A male nurse cares for those with growing infirmities. Any inmate 
desirous, for any cause, to leave the Home, is at liberty to depart. Visit- 
ors received only on Wednesday and Saturday, from 9 to 11, and 3 to 5, 
unless by permit from a director. Report published annually, in Janu- 
ary. About $13,000 spent yearly; 36 inmates in 1879, and 31 outside 
beneficiaries, who received nearly $5,000, Directors. Pres., Peter C. 
Brooks, 36 Temple PI.; Treas., James Longley, 45 Chester Sq.; Clerk, 
D. H. Coolidge, 32 Pemberton Sq.; Supt., Sarah W. Lincoln; Physician, 
Chas. D. Homans, M. D. 
Disabled soldiers. NATIONAL HOMES FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER 
SOLDIERS. Central Branch, near Dayton, Ohio; Eastern 
Branch, near Augusta, Maine; North-Western Branch, near 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Southern Branch, near Fortress Mon- HOMES—FOR ADULTS. 
49 
i’oe, Virginia Apply to Capt. L. E. Crome, 12 Pemberton Sq , 
Room 3, 9 to 2. 
These Homes, and transportation to them, are free to any soldier who 
has an honorable discharge from the Volunteer Service, and is disabled 
from earning a living by wounds received or disease contracted in the 
hne of duty, and who agrees to abide by the rules and regulations. The 
discharge paper, pension certificate (if any), or receipt therefor, must be 
forwarded with the application. All the ordinary comforts of a home, in- 
cluding clothing, are provided. Religious services, concerts, lectures, 
etc., hospital, library, reading-rooms, amusement halls, school-rooms, 
Post and telegraph offices, stores, workshops, etc. Those who desire have 
ample opportunity to fit themselves for book-keepers, clerks, school- 
teachers, telegraph operators, farmers, etc., or to learn new trades suited 
to their peculiar disability. Suitable compensation is given for profitable 
labor. This home is a right, forfeited only by bad conduct. Out-door 
relief given in limited amounts to beneficiaries unable to bear transporta- 
tion without imminent danger to life or during the pending of applica- 
tions. In 1876, 7,116 soldiers supported at a cost of $157.75 each. 
Managers. Pres., Maj.-Gen. B. F. Butler, Lowell, Mass.; Sec’y, MaJ.- 
Gen. John H. Martindale, Rochester, N. Y. 
SAILORS’ SNUG HARBOR (Incor. 1852), Germantown, Seamen. 
Quincy, Mass. Apply to Pres., Thomas Motley, 52 State St. 
A home for worn-out. seamen who have served five years under the 
American Flag. Transportation to the Snug Harbor may be paid by the 
institution. Habitual drunkards and those requiring hospital treatment 
are not admitted. Inmates help as they are able in the care of the home, 
and make over to the Corporation any property they may possess or 
acquire. Friends of inmates can visit at all times. In 1878,35 inmates; 
expense about $7,000. Sec’y, J. Francis Tuckerman, 11 Pemberton Sq.; 
Treas., Wm. Brandt Storer, 58 India Sq. 
MARINERS’ HOUSE, BOSTON PORT AND SEAMEN’S seamen Board 
Air. o/ .r rr.„, reasonable, free 
AID SOCIETY, page 26. to distressed. 
HOME FOR AGED WOMEN (incor. 1849), 108 Revere Aged American 
St., Ward IX. Apply to Chairman Committee on Admission : Bidents 
Andrew Cashing, Room 19, Congregation House, 9 to 11. 
Provides a comfortable home for aged indigent females of American 
parentage, who have resided in Boston the ten years preceding appli- 
cation, and are over 60. Admission fee, $150; and inmates having prop- 
erty must secure it to the Corporation. After three months’ probation, if 
the inmate is dismissed, the admission fee is refunded, after deducting 
$3 a week for board. Any inmate, dissatisfied or unhappy, is at liberty 
to leave. When able, each inmate assists in the work of the Home. 
Inmates can visit their friends by permission of the Matron. Friends 
of inmates visit from ‘2 to 5, Wednesday and Saturday afternoons; the 
Public, Wednesday afternoons. Report published annually, in January. 
About $15,000 spent yearly; average of 90 inmates. Pres., Henry B. 
Rogers; Treas., Wm. F. Matchett, 68 Devonshire St.; Sec’y, Henry 
Emmons, at the Home 9 to 10 a. m. ; Matron, Miss L. D. Paddock. 
THE DOANE FUND. Income is given at their homes, after investi- 
gation, to American women who furnish vouchers from two respectable 
Physicians of Boston that they have served in that city for 10 years as 
11 Ul'scs to the sick. $72 a year to each beneficiary, in quarterly pay- 50 
HOMES—FOR ADULTS. 
merits. $2,718 paid in 1879; beneficiaries 38, but with the present available 
means, must be reduced to 30, and no additions can be made. Committee : 
Chas. T. White, Chas. Faulkner, Mrs. Paul Adams, Mrs. H. W. Warren, 
and Miss Matilda Goddard. 
Aged American WINCHESTER HOME FOR AGED WOMEN (incor. 
oYciiTrk^town81865, opened 1866), 10 Eden St, Charlestown, Ward IY. 
Apply to any member of the Committee on Admission: Mr. 
and Mrs. L. Hull, 27 Monument Sq.; Mrs. Herbert Curtis, 80 
High St.; Mrs. E. G. Byam, 6 Monument Sq.; Mrs. F. A. 
Downing, 49 High St. 
Furnishes a home to women, over 60, American by birth, who have 
been residents of Charlestown for ten years preceding application, who 
bring satisfactory testimonials of character, etc., and who have no means 
or relatives to support them. Generally, $lOO and the furniturg of a 
room are required before admission. Occasionally boarders may be 
admitted, though not to the exclusion of those entirely dependent. All 
persons are received on a probation of three months, when the Board of 
Managers acts definitely on each case; if not confirmed as permanent in- 
mates, the admission fee, deducting board at the rate of $2 per week, will 
be returned. When inmates are pensioners of any benevolent institution, 
it is expected that their pensions will be continued. Persons owning 
property, or obtaining it after admission, and remaining in the Home, 
shall secure the same to the institution. Inmates are required to render 
all the service they can for the benefit of the Home. Inmates go in and 
out freely. Accommodates 40. Visitors admitted on Wednesday and 
Saturday afternoons, from 2to 5. Sunday services fortnightly. Report 
published annually, in January. The expenses of the Home for 1879 
were over $5,000, and there were 34 inmates. Managed by delegates from 
the several churches. Pres., Liverus Hull; Sec’y, Abram E. Cutter, 41 
Monument Sq.; Treas., John Turner, 351 Main St.; Matron, Mrs. Louisa 
A. Ramsay. ' 
Aced Protestant MISS BURNAPS HOME FOR AGED AND FRIEND- 
women. LESS 3 Anthony PL, Ward YL, open at all hours, 
except Sunday. Apply to Miss Bitmap, who has sole charge 
of the Home. 
Provides a home for Protestant women, of any nationality, who 
through misfortune are unable to provide for themselves. The Home is 
not in any way intended for those who have been brought to poverty by 
their own vices. Number limited to six. 
Aged colored HOME FOR AGED COLORED WOMEN (1860, incor. 
women. 1864), 27 Myrtle St., Ward IX. Apply at the Home at any time. 
Affords a home to aged, friendless colored women, of good character, 
unable to care for themselves. A small amount is paid toward their 
maintenance when they or their friends are able. Readings, singing and 
Sunday services are given. Visitors welcome. Report published annu- 
ally in January. Yearly expenditure from $3,000 to $4,000; average 
number of inmates, 20. Relief sometimes given outside the Home. 
Directors. Pres., Rev. John Parkman; Clerk, Miss Mary G. Curtis, 9 
Pinckney St.; Treas., L. W. Tappan, Jr., 97 State St.; Committee on Ad- 
mission, Mrs. S. Eliot, 44 Brimmer St., Miss Bates, 17 Somerset St., 
Mrs. A. F. Wadsworth, 73 Mt. Vernon St.; Matron, Mrs. Rachel A. 
Smith. HOMES—FOR ADULTS. 
51 
ROXBURY HOME FOR CHILDREN AND AGED WO-women who 
MEN (incor. 1856), Burton Av., off Copeland St., Ward XX. Pay Per'week‘ 
Apply to Sec'y, Miss Anne M. Haines, Townsend St. 
Aims to make a comfortable home for aged women, who pay three dol- 
lars per week toward their board. About 17 inmates. Property, about 
$35,000. Services on Sunday. Managers. Pres., John Rogers; Treas., 
Adams Ayer. 
HOME FOR THE AGED POOR (1870, incor. 1872), 424 Both sexes, aged. 
Dudley St., cor. Woodward Av., Ward XX. Apply at the 
Home. 
Applicants received without regard to religion or nationality must be 
of good moral character, destitute, and over 60. Visitors admitted daily 
from 11 to 5. The Home accommodates 200 men and women. Managed 
by 12 “Little Sisters of the Poor” (Catholic), who share the domestic 
work without compensation, and collect funds. 
ASSOCIATION OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN "ged 
CHURCH FOR WORKS OF MERCY, page 65. 
BOSTON YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASS’N Young’worMng- 
(BOAßDlNG HOUSE), page 92. at cost.' 
BOSTON YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASS’N (IN- Young working- 
L>USTRIAE DEPARTMENT), page 92. low, or for work. 
Taught sewing 
and housework. 
ST. LUKE’S HOME FOR CONVALESCENTS, page 38. ZZZconva' 
HOUSE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN, page 38. 
CONSUMPTIVES’ HOME, page 39. Hom«““hic. 
Consumption. 
CANCEK HOME, page 39. KSKiio. 
Cancer. 
THE CHANNINGHOME, page 38. vaTdsSing' 
constant care. 
ADAMS NERVINE ASYLUM, page 40. disXeas'esNer’ 
SPINAL HOME, page 40. S^thic. 
Spinal diseases. 
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR (WAYFARERS’ LODGE),Menandboy 
page 22. for sawing wood. 
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR (TEMPORARY HOME), 
page 21. and washing. 
THE TEMPORARY HOME FOR WORKING 
(1877 incor. 1878), 827 Tremont St., Ward XI. Apply at any or 552.25 per week. 
’ ' Taught sewing, 
lime. house and laun- 
Provides shelter and employment to penniless and friendless women, 017s°^'cu^; 52 
HOMES—FOR ADULTS. 
in want either of the necessaiics of life or of a respectable temporary 
lodging, until able to secure a permanent situation. A respectable wo- 
w^’nf to work, is never refused. Women can pay for their board, 
$2.25 a week, or, if without money, by work. The laundry and sewing- 
room are m chaige of competent persons, who are responsible for every 
article sent out. Family washing taken at 75 cents per dozen. Every 
variety of sewing done, from ladies’ dresses to rag rugs. These are sold 
at the Home to the public. Ihe inmates do all the household work and 
m every department are required to do well whatever they undertake 
Whenever there are no inmates suitable, outsiders who apply every morn- 
ing at the office are sent in answer to applications from any persons wish- 
ing help by the week, day or hour, at twelve and a half cents per hour. 
Ihe matron finds permanent situations. The Home is, in fact an intelli- 
gence office; fees are not obligatory. Inmates are encouraged to report 
to the Home after leaving for situations, and to feel that they can always 
turn there for advice and help. Cards stating the purpose of the Home 
are distributed at the police stations, railroad stations, and on board the 
steamers from Maine, and to many clergymen in country towns to be 
given to worthy women in need. Tickets sold at f 1.50 per dozen and 
any one sending an applicant is requested to give her a ticket properlv 
indorsed, that a report may be made upon the case. Singing-meetings 
on Sunday afternoons, sometimes reading by a volunteer, wholly infor- 
mal and unsectarian, and attended voluntarily by the inmates Report 
published annually in January. Expenses of the Home about $4 000 a 
year. From Jan. 1, 1879, to Jan. 1, 1880, 836 women admitted; 462 sent 
to places; 30 to hospitals; 21,390 meals paid for in work; 3 034 meals 
paid for hi money; 928 nights’ lodgings paid for in money. Managers 
Pres., Miss Ellen F. Mason; Treas., Mrs. Turner Sargent, 59 BeacoiffiSt • 
Sec y, Arthur Dexter, 56 Beacon St.; Matron, Miss Tolman. ' ’ 
Both sexes. 
THE BOSTON INDUSTRIAL TEMPORARY" HOME 
i?co,r- J»0. }7 Davis SI. °or. HarrisM At., Ward 
atious procured. XYI. Apply to Bupt, and Secy, S. T. Andrews, between 7 
and 10 a. m. 
Gives temporary lodging and food to worthy and destitute persons of 
both sexes, who are willing to work and comply with the rules of the 
institution. Special attention is given to the moral, spiritual intellectual 
and physical improvement of applicants, and they are encouraged to 
habits of industry, frugality, and temperance. The public can purchase 
tickets, 8 for fl, to give to those soliciting alms, entitling the bearer to 
meals and lodgings in payment for work. Kindling rvood is prepared sold 
and delivered; coal sold by the ton or basket; laundry work done in the 
best manner; machine stitching and plain sewing done to order at short 
notice; male and female help furnished for work outside the Home bv 
the day or hour; all at low rates. Permanent situations sometimes 
Idled. Lectures, musical and literary entertainments are given Sundiv 
services, and temperance meetings; public invited. Publishes quarterly 
and annual reports. About $B,OOO spent yearly, and about 20 000 nel- 
sons helped. Directors. Pres., Rev. A. J. Gordon, D. D • Treat Pev 
Henry A. Cooke; Physician, O. S. Sanders, M. D. ’ ' 
Meals, lodgings. THE FRIENDLY HAND, page 17. 
Charlestown. 
wlfh S°en.erS’ MASSACHUSETTS INFANT ASYLUM, page 55. 
LT-crntS11' ®^&^?mT°UNGooMEN,S CHRISTIAN UNION (COUN- 
week. TRY WEEK), page 88. HOMES—FOR CHILDREN. 
53 
BOSTON YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA- Domestics. 
WON (TRANSIENT HOME), page 92. 
ST. JOSEPH’S HOME FOR SICK AND DESTITUTE Servant girls. 
SERVANT GIRLS (1865, incor. 1867), 41 to 45 East Brookline emporary') 
St., Ward XYII. Apply to Superior, Mother Mary Corbett, 
between 10 and 12 A. M., and 2 and 4 P. M. 
Affords a temporary home, and otherwise aids deserving girls; cares 
tor children, who are taught as in public schools, and gives provisions to 
many poor families. Includes a hospital for the treatment of diseases, 
especially those of an incurable character. Thursday is visiting day. 
Annual expenditure from $B,OOO to $9,000. 90 beds. In charge of the 
Catholic Sisters of St. Francis. Pres., Edward Ryan; Sec’y, John Conlon. 
Discharged fe- 
„ male prisoners, 
TEMPORARY ASYLUM FOR DISCHARGED FEMALE and their cwi- 
PRISONERS, page 62. fcSnee- 
die-work, placed 
at domestic ser- 
vice. 
SCOTS’ TEMPORARY HOME, SCOTS’ CHARITABLEScotch- 
SOCIETY, page 31. 
homes for children: 
BOSTON ASYLUM AND FARM SCHOOL FOR INDI-g^t^“> 
GENT BOYS (incor. 1835), Thompson’s Island, Ward 11. placed at trades, 
Apply to Sec'y, Geo. L. Deblois, 52 State St. 
Provides a home and training for poor, not vicious, boys, who have lost 
one or both parents. Boys aged 7t012 older by special permission 
admitted after investigation. The committee require from the parent or 
guardian a paper of surrender, or an agreement to leave the boy to the 
entire control of the managers during his stay at the school; in the latter 
case, some reasonable payment is iirged. The boys receive a common 
school education, and moral and religious instruction. The boys are 
employed in farm labor six months of the year; the larger ones also row 
and manage the boats. Instruction in instrumental music is given to a 
band of boys. The Discharge Committee procures homes in virtuous 
families, or situations at any reputable trade, where boys of suitable age 
are bound out until 21; or they may be employed by the Institution until 
21. Any boy not surrendered may be withdrawn from the Institution, or 
from the person to whom he is bound, by his parents or guardian, upon 
payment to the Corporation for expense incurred. Report published 
1877; By-laws 1878. About $13,000 spent yearly, and average number 
in school, 100. Managers. Pres., Theodore Lyman; Treas., Chas. P. 
Bowditch, 28 State St.; Sup’t, fm. A. Morse; Matron, Mrs. Morse. 
MARCELLA STREET HOME (1877), Marcella St., Rox-Boys. Sentenced 
bury, Ward XXI. Apply to the Directors of Public Institutions, placed in famiv 
30 Pemberton Square. lies- 
Cares for and educates neglected boys, sentenced by Municipal and 
District Courts under Chap. 283, Laws of 1866, and pauper boys admitted 
by permit of the Directors of Public Institutions. The officers aim to 54 
HOMES—FOR CHILDREN. 
approach, as far as possible, a family influence, and some of the boys, 
when discharged, are provided with homes. Sick cared for in the Hos- 
pital. A few pauper men and women carry on the domestic work. 
Graded schools. Catholic and Protestant services on Sunday. Near 
relatives and friends allowed to visit. Average expenditure for each in- 
mate, $2.15 per week; average number of inmates, 222, average age, 10 
Girls. years. Sup’t, Hollis M. Blackstone. The School for Pauper Girls will 
be removed from Deer Island upon the completion of the new building 
within the precincts of this Home. 
famiiieSPlacedin BOSTON FEMALE ASYLUM (1800, incor. 1803). 1008 
Washington St., Ward XYI. Apply at the Asylum, at any 
time. 
Receives destitute girls between 3 and 10; gives them, so far as pos- 
sible, a good family home, food, clothing, and instruction. Preference 
given to orphans, but others sometimes admitted. Full surrender re- 
quired on admission, but a child may be returned or otherwise provided 
for within three months, if discovered to be an improper subject. Com- 
mon school branches, sewing, and domestic service taught. Attend 
church every Sunday. If a child is ill, her friends are notified. No child 
under 12 placed out, except by adoption, when the consent of the guardian 
must be obtained. Children are placed in virtuous families by indenture 
until 18, but, except under peculiar circumstances, not allowed on trial. 
If the employers are dissatisfied, they can, by consent of the managers, 
find another place, and transfer the indenture. A few girls are always 
retained during their minority to serve in the asylum. Sometimes the 
relatives are allowed to take charge of a child, when equal advantages 
can be secured to those offered by another place. Friends visit them on 
the afternoon of the first Wednesday in each month. The public admitted 
on Thursdays. Managers. First Directress, Mrs. Ozias Goodwin; 
Second Directress, Mrs. Theodore Lyman; Treas., Miss Sarah C. Paine; 
Sec’y, Miss M. A. Wales, 19 Brimmer St. 
Girls. Taught INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (incor. 1853), Centre 
Returned to 
St., Dorchester, Ward XXIY. Apply to Miss E. C. Putnam, 
m families.pla°ed 63 Marlboi'°’ St,, or to Miss Sever, 94 Chestnut St. 
Trains to good conduct and habits of self-support girls whose relatives 
and friends are unable or unfit to care for them. Except by special vote, 
girls from 6to 10 years only are admitted. A small sum is required for 
board, whenever the relatives are able to pay. Teaches general house- 
work, sewing, and the common branches, enforces order, neatness, and 
cleanliness. Aims to do away with all unnecessary routine and make 
the girls feel they are in a home. The girls go out to earn their own 
living as soon as they are able, each one on leaving, unless returned to her 
relatives, being placed under the guardianship of one of the managers 
until she is 21. Relatives of the girls, and others, admitted from 2to 5 
on the last Wednesday of every month. Report published annually, in 
January. In 1879, expenses, $5,366.76. Average number in the School, 
25 to 30. 14 Managers. Pres., Miss Annette P. Rogers; Treas., Wm. S. 
Hall, 8 Congress St.; Sec’y, Miss Mary L. Hall; Matron, Miss H. R. 
Burns. 
Taught Tewing! ’ SCHOOL FOR PAUPER GIRLS, Deer Island, Ward 11. 
Apply to the Directors of Public Institutions, 30 Pemberton 
Sq. HOMES—FOR CHILDREN. 
55 
Governed by the same principles as the Marcella St. Home (page 53). 
t'o that place the girls are to be transferred upon the completion of a 
building for them. The older girls are taught sewing. Average expense 
for each inmate, f‘2.19 per week; average number of inmates, 65. 
, MASSACHUSETTS INFANT ASYLUM (incor. 1867). fttend«. 
The Home, Curtin St., Jamaica Plain, near Boylston Station, or placed in famil 
Providence R. R., Ward XXIII. House for the reception of ”®*g°rinstltu- 
children, 87 Lawrence St, and Branch House, West Medford. 
Apply for admission to Miss A. P. Cary, 64 Beacon St, at 9 
A. m , Tuesdays, or by mail at any time; for infants to be 
adopted, to Matron, Miss Clapp, or to any member of Adoption 
Committee: Miss Maria A Revere, 9 Newbury St. 5 Thos. 
Parsons, Brookline ; A. M. Howe, 25 Congress St. 
Preserves infant life by assisting and providing for deserted and desti- 
tute infants. Many are saved from perishing in almshouses; others find 
a refuge here during temporary destitution of parents; some are received, 
while the mother earns a support and contributes part of her earnings for 
the child. It is the intention to have one wet nurse for every two babies; 
thus the Home often becomes a refuge for mother and child alike. No 
child over 9 months is admitted; all pass a medical examination. In 
various country towns, within 15 miles of Boston, the Asylum boards 
children in respectable families, where affectionate and unremitting care 
is given, and which are visited at regular intervals by one of the directors, 
or by benevolent ladies of the neighborhood who report to the Boarding 
Committee. The Home provides for babies too small to go out to board, 
for such as need special nursing, and for such as are sent home sick from 
their boarding places. The "babies are cared for until two years 
of age, when they are taken by relatives, adopted, or sent to institutions. 
Only in extreme cases, by the death of the mother or when it would be 
the ruin of the child to be left with the mother, is a child offered for 
adoption. All adoptions are confidential, except registration at the Pro- 
bate Office for mutual protection. Visitors admitted Tuesdays and Fri- 
days, 2 to 5. Report published annually, in April. The number of 
children under the care of the Asylum is limited, and two-thirds of them 
are boarded out. About f 17,000 spent yearly, and over 225 infants, and 
many of their mothers, were cared for in 1879-80. Pres., Sam’l Cabot, M. 
D ; Treas., E. S. Philbrick, Brookline; Sec’y, L. W. Tappan, Jr.; At- 
tending Physicians, Dr. Lucy E. Sewall, Dr. Chas. P. Putnam. 
CARNEY HOSPITAL, ST. MARY’S INFANT ASYLUM, Foundlings and 
page 35. orphans- 
ASSOCIATION OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN orphans. Taught 
CHURCH FOR WORKS OF MERCY (1871), MARTIN Sg. sftnation?* 
LUTHER ORPHAN HOME, Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Procured- 
Ward XXIII, Apply to Sec'y, Rev. Adolph Biewend, 34 
Alleghany St. 
The Home cares for destitute orphan children over four, of any race or 
creed, and offers a temporary home to half-orphans as long as the sur- 
viving parent is unable to provide a better. The children receive a com- 
mon school education, and are taught the German language. Efforts are 
made to teach them trades, and they are employed on the farm. After 
confirmation suitable places are procured, but they can return to the Home 56 
HOMES—FOR CHILDREN. 
in time of need. The Home is also an asylum for aged and helpless per- 
sons. Visitors welcome at any time. Report published yearly. About 
$3,000 spent annually, and over 40 persons aided. Trustees. Pres , Rev. 
Herman Pick; Treas., G. F. Burkhardt, Sr.; Supt., A. Brauer, whose 
wife is Matron. 
Orphans. Placed ST. VINCENT’S ORPHAN ASYLUM (1831, incor. 1845), 
service. s’ Shawmut Av., cor. Camden St., Ward XVIII. 
Children received without regard to creed or color, and given for adop- 
tion or placed out at service. The expenses of some children paid by 
relatives and friends. The children assist the 13 Catholic Sisters who 
have charge of the Asylum in the domestic work. Yearly expense about 
$12,000; abortt 225 children cared for. Sec’y, Hugh O’Brien, 5 Chatham 
Row; Treas., Hugh Carey, 7 Hamilton PI. 
Orphan and de- HOUSE OF THE ANGEL GUARDIAN (1851, incor. 1853), 
waywardBboys.Uy 86 Vernon St., Roxbury, Ward XIX. Apply to Superior, Rev. 
Situations pro- W. J. Becker, 
cured 
Relieves, educates, and reforms orphan and deserted children, especially 
wayward boys. The funds on hand or the payment of fees govern ad- 
missions. Places procured in counting-houses, stores, trades, with farm- 
ers, etc. Graded schools, usual studies, open daily from 8.30 to 11 a. m., 
and from 2to 4.30 p. m. Religious instruction. Visitors from 9to 5. 
About $21,000 spent yearly, and about 200 persons aided. Conducted by 
Catholic Brothers of Charity. Pres., Rev. John J. Williams; Sec’y, Gus- 
tave Vandendriesche. 
Both sexes. CHURCH HOME FOR ORPHANS AND DESTITUTE 
work, returned to CHILDREN (1865, incor. 1858), cor. Broadway, N and Fourth 
friends, °r piaeed gts., South Boston, Ward XIV. Apply to Chairman, Com- 
mittee, on Admission, Mrs. S. Eliot, 44 Brimmer St.; Mrs. F. 
Cunningham, 229 Beacon St.; or Mrs. W. E. Townsend, 10 
Brimmer St. 
Takes care of orphan and destitute children (not diseased) surrendered 
by written agreement for a definite time, not less than one year, or for 
shorter time on payment of board. Children not claimed within six 
months after the expiration of their term, belong to the Home. Supported 
by Protestant Episcopal Churches, but children of any sect are received. 
No girls over 8 and no boys over 6 are admitted, except by special vote. 
The Committee on Dismission provide suitable homes for those prepared 
to leave. The youngest children receive home teaching, others attend 
public schools; all learn housework, and receive Episcopal Church train- 
ing, Children’s friends visit last Wednesday of cveiy month, between 2 
and 5; public between 2 and 5 Wednesday. Report published annually, 
in November. About $lO,OOO spent yearly; 100 children cared for. 
Trustees. Pres, of Board of Council, Rt. Rev. B. H. Paddock, D. D.; 
Treas., Geo. H. Richards, 16 Pemberton Sq. Pres, of Board of Managers, 
Mrs. Richard S. Fay; Treas., Miss A. W. Morrill, 11 Arlington St.; 
Sec’y, Mrs. Richard F. Bond, 514 E. Broadway; Matron, Miss Dexter. 
Both sexes. BOSTON CHILDREN’S FRIEND SOCIETY (1833, incor. 
piacldat™; 1834), 48 Rutland St., Ward XYIIL Apply to the Matron or 
or iu famines. p) any manager. 
Provides a home for destitute children upon surrender; or on approval 
of Visiting Committee and Matron, as temporary boarders. Board low, HOMES—FOR CHILDREN. 
57 
Payable two weeks in advance. Common school branches taught, and 
girls learn to sew. Some of the children are adopted; some remain until 
18; others are indentured when about 14, in proper families, but do not pass 
out of the guardianship of the Society until they attain majority. Boys not 
retained or admitted over 7 years of age. Visitors received at any time. 
Report published annually, in November. Average yearly expense for 
each child, $100; average number received, 65; accommodates 70 Man- 
agers. Pres., Mrs. J. A. Lane; Recording Sec'y, Mrs. Martin L. Hall, 
Brookline; Corresponding Sec’y, Mrs. G. B. Drake, 122 Pembroke St.; 
Treas., S. T. Snow, 47 Kilby St. 
BALDWIN PLACE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS Both sexes, 
(incor. 1865), Ward VII. ues? m lami' 
Neither sectarian or sectional. Receives all children legally given up, 
who are sound in body and mind, except babes whose mothers are living. 
Each child placed in a family must be treated as a son or daughter. Any 
person wishing to take a child must bring a recommendation from the 
pastor of the church to which he belongs, and from two prominent citizens. 
Average number per year kept in the Home, 350. A few cases have been 
received for temporary relief from worthy mothers who cared for their 
children till sickness prevented. Outside aid in provisions and clothing 
given to worthy Protestant families after the strictest investigation. 
School children clothed when recommended by their Teachers and the 
Truant Officer. Expenses for the year 1879-80, $18,372.27. “ Little Wan- 
derers’ Advocate” published quarterly. Home open to visitors every 
week day. Officers of the Board of Managers ; Pres., Hon. J. Warren 
Merrill; Treas., Wm. G. Brooks; Sec’y, John O. Bishop. Officers of the 
Home: Sup’t, Rev. R. G. Toles; Ass't Sup't, Charles H. Minor. 
SHAW ASYLUM FOR MARINERS’ CHILDREN (incor. Both sexes. 
1877), Brookline, Mass. Apply to Pres., Quincy A. Shaw, 19 MassunarLers. 
Pemberton Sq., between 9 and 2. 
Helps destitute children of mariners who have been employed on 
Massachusetts vessels, or are natives of Massachusetts employed else- 
where as mariners, by receiving them at the Asylum, or aiding them in 
families. Children in the Asylum go to public school. Yearly average, 
4 children in Asylum, 360 children in families. 
CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL (CONVALESCENT HOME), convaScents 
page 39. 
ST. LUKE’S HOME FOR CONVALESCENTS, page 88. Both sfxes- ( 
’ r ® Convalescents. 
HOUSE OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN, page 38. Goth sexes. 
x ° Especially in- 
curables. 
BOSTON CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY, page 64. Goth sexes. 
1 ° Eeform. 
BOSTON NORTH END MISSION (NURSERY), page 23. Both sexes. 
ST. JOSEPH’S HOME FOR SICK AND DESTITUTEBoth sexes- 
SERVANT GIRLS, page 63. 
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR, TEMPORARY HOME, Adopted, or 
~ ni placed in insti- 
page 21. tutions. 
MOUNT HOPE SUMMER HOME FOR CHILDREN, s,?'hmB™L 
BOSTON NORTH END MISSION, page 23. tion 
Both sexes. 
Especially in- 
curables. 
Keform. 58 
HOMES—FOR CHILDREN. 
Both sexes. BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN UNION, COUN- 
Country week. TRY WEEK, page 88. 
Both sexes. BALDWIN PLACE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS, 
Bay nursery. 
page 57. 
Both sexes. BOSTON NORTH END MISSION, page 23. 
Bay nursery. 
Both sexes. CHARLESTOWN INFANT SCHOOL AND CHILDREN’S 
Bay nmsery. HQME ASSOCIATION, page 69. 
Both sexes. NORTH END NURSERY (1880), 39 No. Bennet St. 
Bay nursery. v ' 
Open daily, except Sundays, 8 a. m. to 4 p. m., in winter; 8 a. m. to 5 
p. m., in summer. Children over 18 months and under 6 years of age, of 
any nationality or religion, admitted upon recommendation of the Asso- 
ciated Charities, when there is sickness at home, when parents are obliged 
to be absent at work, when there is extreme poverty, or when older chil- 
dren are kept from school to care for younger ones. Nothing sectarian 
taught. No corporal punishment, tying, or shutting up in closets, light 
or dark, allowed. Matrons are required to visit the families of children 
attending the Nursery. When assistance is needed, the families are care- 
fully investigated, and recommended to the proper relief-giving society. 
Kindergarten open 9 to 12 daily. 
Both sexes. WEST END DAY NURSERY (1880), 36 Blossom St., 
Bay nursery. Ward IX. Apply between 9 and 11 am. 
Furnishes food and care during the day to poor children under 5, whose 
mothers are at work. Charge, 5" cents a day, or 25 cents a week; special 
cases may be received for less. A reference is required in each case. 
Open 7a.m.t07 p. m. Managers, Dr. T. M. Rotch, 77 Marlborough St.; 
Dr. H. C. Haven, 233 Marlborough St. 
Both sexes. HOMES FOR CHILDREN OF PATIENTS IN THE CON- 
Temporary. SUMPTIYES’, OR SPINAL HOME, page 39. 
Both sexes. NICKERSON HOME FOR CHILDREN (formerly The 
hy mends or by Ladies' American Home Education Society and Temperance 
themselves. Union) (1835, incor. 1850), 14 Tyler St., Ward XII. Apply to 
the Matron. 
About 30 children, between 3 and 10 (mostly half-orphans and those 
having intemperate fathers) are cared for, without regard to color, sex 
or creed, until they can be supported by their friends or by themselves. 
Parents do not surrender their children, and no applications for children 
to adopt are received. Friends pay a small sum for board, when able; 
a limited number are entirely supported by the Society. Friends of the 
children are welcome as visitors. Public school, church, and Sunday 
school attended regularly. Publishes annually “ Annals of the Children’s 
Home.” Pres., Mrs. S. E. Dawes; Sec’y, Mrs. G. M. Dawson; Treas., 
Mrs. S. B. Holway. 
Both sexes. ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION OF DESTl- 
porary!CSke- ' TUTE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHILDREN (incor. 1864). 
or placed at work', Apply at the Home, cor. Harrison Av. and Concord St., Ward 
or in families. XVIII. 
Affords a temporary home for destitute children of any creed, color HOMES—FOR CHILDREN. 
59 
or nativity. The Sisters of Charity instruct and care for them until re- 
turned to their friends, placed in situations, or provided with good Cath- 
olic homes. Persons wishing to adopt must bring recommendations from 
their parish priest. About $>13,000 spent yearly, and about 250 children 
received, at an average cost each of $1.33 per week. Pres., James W. 
Dumphy; Seo’y, James Havey, 590 Washington St.; Treas., David A. 
Ring, 413 Atlantic Av. 
MASS. SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO 
CHILDREN, page 67. in families. 
CHARLESTOWN INFANT SCHOOL AND CHILDREN’SRp 
HOME ASSOCIATION (1833, inoor. 1869), 36 Austin St., turned to friends’, 
Charlestown, Ward V. Apply to Committee on Admissions :oradoPted- 
Mrs. C. E. Daniels, 370 Main St.; Mrs. Joseph Caldwell, 2 
Franklin St.; Mrs. Nelson Bartlett, Monument Ay. 
A Temporary Home for destitute children; also provides daily care for 
children whose parents are out at work, and receives children for adop- 
tion. No child admitted with a contagious disease. None excluded on 
account of poverty; but a low board is expected when means allow. 
Children of sufficient age attend the public schools and Sunday school. 
Report published annually, in April. Annual expenses about $1,500, and 
about 30 children received. Managers. Pres., Mrs. Arnold A. Rand; 
Sec'y, Miss Mary D. Balfour; Treas., Mrs. Darius Crosby, 6 Adams St.; 
Matron, Mrs. C. E. Hardy. 
THE CHILDREN’S MISSION TO THE CHILDREN OF s°th sexes. 
THE DESTITUTE IN THE CITY OF BOSTON (1849, ke%Xg"w- 
incor. 1864), 277 Tremont St., Ward XII. Apply between 8 fr£hd?,6or placed 
and 5. in families. 
Orphan, destitute, and homeless children, of every race, nation or re- 
ligion, are aided. The Mission takes charge of such children, between 5 
and 15, as are given up to it: procures homes, mostly in the country and 
the West, into which they are adopted or received for a term of years, 
and continues its oversight of them while in these homes. Gives a tem- 
porary home to children of parents who are unable for a time to provide 
for them. Day school; Sunday school, includes children from poor 
families outside. SEWING SCHOOL in autumn and winter, for the 
older girls of the Home, and for those outside who wish to attend. Sunday 
services. “ The Ladies’ Home Circle ” makes garments for the Home, 
and for children in the Sunday school. Report published annually, in 
May. About $9,000 spent yearly; from 150 to 200 children annually 
under its care; the number in the Home varies from 20 to 40. Directors. 
Pres., Henry P. Kidder; Sec'y, Rev. Samuel B. Cruft, 433 Shawmut Av.; 
Treas., Henry Pickering; Missionaries, Rev. Joseph E. Barry, Mrs. E. 
D, Barry, Miss F. A. Ewer; Matron, Miss L. A. Brown; Sup’t, Wm. 
Crosby. 
TEMPORARY HOME FOR THE DESTITUTE (1847, 
incor. 1852), 1 Pine PL, Ward XII. Open from 9 to 6. Apply lies, 
to Matron, Mrs. A. L. Gwynne, giving, when possible, the 
name of child, date and place of birth, name and birthplace 
of hither and mother, their present occupation and residence, 
and names of other relatives, if any. 60 
HOMES—IMPROVED DWELLINGS FOR THE POOR. 
Brings children who have no homes to good homes which have no 
children; cares for children while their parents or friends are unable to 
provide for them, or need treatment at a hospital. As there are only 30 
or 40 children in the Home, each child receives proper attention and gentle 
home influence. The Matron corresponds with the adopted parents of 
children, and keeps a record of all intelligence received. Reports pub- 
lished annually, in December. During 1878, 227 children, including 56 
infants, cared for; over $7,000 spent. Managers. Pres., John Ayres, 86 
State St.; Treas., John D. Williams, 48 State St.; Clerk, S. Parkman 
Blake, Jr., 19 Exchange PI. 
Both sexes. THE WEST BOSTON RELIEF ASSOCIATION (1875). 
Colored. v y 
Object; to furnish both a temporary and permanent home for colored 
children, who at the time of its organization were not freely admitted to 
homes and asylums. Now proposes to unite with the West End Day 
Nursery, page 58, for children of any color. Pres., Mrs. Geo. L. Ruffin, 
170 Cambridge St.; Sec’y, Miss Lizzie Stuart; Treas., Mrs. Lewis Hay- 
den, 62 Phillips St. 
IMPROVED DWELLINGS FOR THE POOR: 
Lawrence model LAWRENCE MODEL LODGING HOUSES (1856), 1, 2, 
lodging-houses. and 8 East Canton St. 
Three houses, of 20 tenements each, with comfortable, convenient 
lodgings for poor, respectable persons, at a low rent. Three Trustees. 
Co-opcraUve BOSTON CO-OPERATIVE BUILDING COMPANY, 5 Park 
proveddweiiings. St. Two blocks of houses on East Canton St.—l2o tene- 
ments; a group of small houses on Webster Av.; and 16 
houses in Dorchester, not far from Mt. Bowdoin. Pres., 
Martin Brimmer; Treas., Charles L. Peirson; Sec'y, Abby w! 
May, 3 Exeter St 
improved dwell- IMPROVED DWELLINGS FOR THE POOR on Chapman 
ings* and Emerald sts., Ward 16. Agent, Miss Mary Wiggin, 47 
Emerald St. REFORM—ADULT CONVICTS. 
CLASS IX.—REFORM. 
[The marginal notes do not give a synopsis of all the work done by an organi- 
zation, but of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of 
the page.] 
PROBATION OFFICER for the County of Suffolk. Edward Probation of 
H. Savage, Room 8, basement City Hall, Boston, 9 A. M. to 2° eiutrb- 
P. M. Under chapter 198, Acts of 1878, and chapter 129, Acts 
of 1880. 
Investigates and reports to the criminal courts the cases of such prison- 
ers as may he reasonably expected to reform without punishment. If such 
are placed on probation (three to twelve months) by the courts, and 
remain in the city, they must appear at the court from time to time, and 
report to the probation officer at his office; or, if sent to their homes out 
of the city, to charity homes, or to sea, they are required to write to the 
probation officer. When practicable, the officer visits them in their homes, 
and aids in securing employment. From Oct. 21st, 1878, to Dec. 
31st, 1879, two per cent, of the arraignments, or 536 persons, were placed 
on probation. About ninety-five per cent, of these were first offences, and 
eighty-seven per cent, have done well. 
ADULT CONVICTS: 
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR AIDING 
CHARGED CONVICTS (1846, incor. 1867). Office, 35 Avon pioyment, trans- 
St., Ward X. Apply to Gen. Agent, Daniel Russell. portation, etc. 
Visits prisoners a short time before the end of their term at the State 
Prison, and at its expiration stands ready to help in any way that will be 
most effectual towards making them useful members of society. Fur- 
nishes clothing, board, tools, employment if possible, and aid in seeking 
friends at a distance. State grant in 1878, $4,000; expenditures, $4,193; 
433 men aided. Pres., Rev. Edw. E. Hale; Treas., Wm. I. Bowditch, 28 
State St.; Secy, Sidney A. Wilbur, 529 Commercial St. 
HOUSE OF INDUSTRY (1822), Deer Island, Ward ILg““£SK 
Men and women committed by the Police Courts, for drunken-try. 
ness and other offences, on sentences of one to twelve mouths. 
Women are employed in housework and sewing. Men cut stone, work 
on the farm, make shoes, etc. Sick cared for in the hospital. Catholic 
and Protestant services on Sunday. Library, 300 volumes. Agents for 
discharged prisoners, Miss Sarah P. Burnham and Mr. J. E. McCarthy, 
procure homes or give temporary help. Average number of inmates, 
656; average cost of each, $2.04 per week. In charge of the Directors 
of Public Institutions, 30 Pemberton Square. Supt., Guy C. Underwood. 62 
REFORM—FALLEN WOMEN. 
Women. Prison. REFORMATORY PRISON FOR WOMEN (1877), Sher- 
born, Mass. 
Women convicted as vagrants, pilferers, lewd persons, common drunk- 
ards, common beggars, etc., may be sent to this institution on sentences 
of not less than twelve months, or more than two years. Instructs 
women in various industries. School one hour daily. Good books to 
read. A prisoner may, with her consent, be bound out to domestic ser- 
vice during her term of sentence. Offers to find a home for them when 
leaving; gives suitable clothing and travelling expenses. Accommodates 
about 500 persons. In 1879, average 409 prisoners and 35 infants. Cost 
per inmate, $2.95 per week. Officers, except Treasurer and Steward, 
all women. Under the Commissioners of Prisons, page 15. Supt., Mrs. 
Eudora C. Atkinson. 
Women. Home. TEMPORARY ASYLUM FOR DISCHARGED FEMALE 
PRISONERS (incor. 1864), Dedham, Mass. Apply at the 
Asylum. 
Affords a temporary home for friendless, homeless women who have 
been in prison or under arrest. Instructs them in domestic service, needle- 
work, and the common-school branches. Gives religious instruction. 
Situations found in families in the country. Former inmates can return 
as to a home. The public pay for sewing and laundry work. Nursery 
Department (1873). Small annual appropriation from the State. Report 
published annually, in the autumn. About $5,000 spent yearly, and 
about 160 women and children are received. Pres., Mrs. Horatio Chick- 
ering; Treas., Miss M. J. Allen, 33 Brimmer St.; Sec’y, Mrs. C. W. 
Dexter. 
FALLEN WOMEN: 
women. Help. PORTLAND STREET MISSION, page 23. 
Women. Home. 
MOUNT HOPE HOME FOR FALLEN WOMEN, BOSTON 
NORTH END MISSION, page 23. 
Women. Homo. PENITENT FEMALES’ REFUGE AND THE BETHESD A 
SOCIETY (1818, incor. 1821). Apply at Refuge, 32 Rut- 
land St., Ward XYIII. 
Receives fallen women into a comfortable, well-ordered home, expecting 
them to remain two years. Relies on sympathy, occupation and religious 
influence for reform. School, two afternoons a week; skilled needle- 
work and vocal music taught at other times. Housework done by the in- 
mates. When prepared to take care of themselves, some are placed at 
service in good homes. Report published annually, in February. Ex- 
penses about $2,500 yearly. The Refuge accommodates 23 inmates. 
Pres, of Refuge, Joseph C. Tyler; Treas., Daniel E. Snow, 8 Congress 
St.; Seo’y, Stephen G. Deblois, 133 Newbury St. Pres, of the Bethesda 
Society, Mrs. Arthur Wilkinson; Treas , Miss Louisa J. Brown, 32 Rut- 
land St.; Sec’y, Mrs. H. B. Goodwin, 232 Clarendon St. 
Women and girls, HOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD (1867, incor. 1870), 
Home. Tremont St., opp Parker Hill Av., Ward XX, Apply to the 
Sister Superior at the House, in person or by letter. 
Provides a refuge for the reformation of fallen women of any denomi- 
nation, and maintains a “Class of Preservation,” made up of wayward REFORM—CHILDREN. 
63 
and insubordinate girls, exposed to danger. Gives shelter, food, clothing 
and employment, instruction in religion, morals, reading, writing, etc. 
Not open to the public; benefactors and friends occasionally admitted 
between 1.30 and 4 p. m., but not on Saturday or Sunday, or during 
Advent or Lent. Average number of inmates, 200. Managed by the 
Sisters of the Good Shepherd (Catholic). 
NEW ENGLAND MORAL REFORM SOCIETY (1836) Young women 
Woman’s Temporary Home and office, 6 Oak Place, Ward 
XII. Apply to Matron, L. A. Bascom, 
Labors for moral purity by aiding in the right training of children* 
in the preservation, enforcement and formation of just laws, and by 
reclaiming the wanderer. Publishes the “ Home Guardian,” a monthly 
magazine, @1.25 a year, 10 cts. a copy. The Home receives girls and 
young women (assists if penniless), and makes every effort to restore 
them to society, to friends, or to find them good homes. Managers. 
Pres., Mrs. Nathan Drake; Sec’y, Miss M. Y. Ball; Treas., Mrs. Chas. 
D. White. 
CHILDREN; 
TRUANT SCHOOL DEPARTMENT, Deer Island, Ward Truant boys. 
11. 
Separated from the House of Reformation (see below) in 1877. Tru- 
ant boys committed by Police Courts on sentences of 6 to 24 months. 
Average number of inmates, 155; average age, 11 years; average cost of 
each inmate, $2.04 per week. In charge of the Directors of Public Insti- 
tutions, 30 Pemberton Sq. Supt., Guy C. Underwood. 
STATE REFORM SCHOOL (1848), Westboro1, Mass. Boys, sentenced 
v ' by courts. Tram- 
A training school for boys committed until majority for larceny, stub- ins school, 
bornness, etc. Five grades. Some are employed in chair-bottoming, 
making sleighs, sleds, etc.; the production is sold to the public or on con- 
tract. °ln 1879, average number of inmates, 258; in May, 1880, 200. 
Towns pay SI.OO a week for each case charged to them. Managed by the 
Trustees of the State Primary and Reform Schools (seven trustees, 
two women), under the supervision of the State Boat d of 
Health, Lunacy, and Charity, page 13. Supt., Rev. Luther H. Sheldon. 
HOUSE FOR THE REFORMATION OF JUVENILE 
OFFENDERS, Deer Island, Ward 11. courts. Training 
school. 
Children of both sexes are committed by Police Courts, for larceny and 
minor offences, on sentences of from 3 to 24 months, or for minority, four- 
fifths being for minority. Library, 700 volumes. Common school instruc- 
tion. For the boys (nine-tenths of the inmates), military drill, farm- 
work, and, for a small number, instruction in instrumental music and in 
printing. For the girls, sewing, knitting, and general housework. Sick 
cared for in the hospital. Catholic and Protestant services on Sunday. 
Agents for discharged prisoners procure homes, or give temporary relief. 
Average number of inmates, 156; average age, 13£ years; average cost 
of each $2.01 per week. In charge of the Directors of Public Institu- 
tions, 30 Pemberton Sq. Supt., Guy C. Underwood. 
MARCELLA STREET HOME, page 53. S’au^re.nced 64 
REFORM TEMPERANCE. 
Home for boys, BOSTON CHILDREN’S AID SOCIETY (incor. 1865). 
teuced.° Girls”' Home for boys at Pine Farm, West Newton. Apply for boys 
boarded out. to Oeril Agent, “Uncle” Rufus R. Cook, 86 Woodbine St, 
Roxbury; for girls, to Miss Lawrence, care of A. A. Lawrence, 
Boston. 
Rescues vagrant, destitute, and exposed children, of tender age, from 
moral ruin. At the Farm, 30 boys, from 10 to 13, are under home influ- 
ence, and are taught farming, printing, etc., besides common school 
branches; when fitted, good homes are secured for them. Visitors wel- 
come. There is a committee on admissions, discharges, and subsequent 
supervision. Girls are placed in good private homes, and board is paid if 
necessary from the Shaw Fund foe Gikls. The general agent gives 
bail in City Courts for boys who are most in need, and will be most 
benefited by the reformatory influences of Pine Farm; also for many 
others who are carefully guarded, although they remain in the city. His 
assistant, Miss S. P. Burnham, visits children in the City Jail daily, loans 
them books, and learns their history, home and family; also visits at their 
homes, after discharge. Publishes annual report in June. Spends 
about $4,000 yearly. Directors. Pres., William Claflin; Sec'y, Edward 
W. Hooper, 40 State St.; Treas., Edward Jackson, 178 Devonshire St, 
Girts. Sentenced STATE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (1856), Lan- 
dusUiafsciiooi. caster, Mass. 
For girls under 17, committed until majority, for larceny, stubbornness, 
etc. About 25 girls employed in machine knitting, with some gardening 
work during the season; others, in housework. Average number of 
inmates in 1879, 73; in May, 1880, 81. Towns pay f 1 a week for each 
case charged to them. Managed by the Trustees of the State Primary 
and Reform Schools (seven trustees, including two women), under the 
supervision of the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity, page 13. 
Supt., N. Porter Brown. 
Boys and girls. STATE PRIMARY SCHOOL, page 81. 
Primary school. x ° 
Boys and girls. NEW ENGLAND MORAL REFORM SOCIETY, page 63. 
Aid in moral a 
training. 
TEMPERANCE; 
Men. Mutual SONS OF TEMPERANCE, page 73. 
benefit. r ° 
Men. Mutual TEMPLARS OF HONOR, page 74. 
benefit. 
Men. Home. WASHINGTONIAN HOME (1857, incorp, 1859), 41 Wal- 
tham St., Ward XVII. Apply to Supt. and Physician, Albert 
Day, M. D.,, with a recommendation by some responsible per- 
son. 
Aims to cure intemperance by medical, moral, and hygienic treatment. 
Each patient pays from $lO to $2O per week, unless special arrangement 
is made; this includes board and medical care only. The interest of two 
funds ($5,617.33), is devoted to the support of patients having a perma- 
nent home within the State. Only applicants-who purpose to reform are 
admitted, and must obey the rules, which forbid the use of intoxicants, 
drugs and nostrums, discourage the use of tobacco, and place the patient REFORM—TEMPERANCE. 
65 
entirely under the care and control of the Superintendent. Accommo- 
dates 40 inmates. Visitors are admitted at any time. Report published 
annually, in April. 306 patients during the year ending March, 1880; 38 
being free. Directors. Pres., Otis Clapp; Clerk, Samuel W. Sargent; 
Treas., Thos. J. Skinner. 
NEW ENGLAND HOME FOR INTEMPERATE WOMEN Women- Home- 
(lB79), 112 Kendall St., Ward XIX. Apply to the Matron, 
Mrs, M. R. Charpiot, 9 to 6 daily. 
Aims to cure intemperate women who want to do better, by medical 
and moral treatment. The poor work for board, etc.; others pay accord- 
ing to their means. The women are taught to work skilfully, and places 
are usually secured upon discharge. Partly supported by laundry and 
sewing-room. Receives laundry work at 75 cts. per doz., or on special 
terms. Public unsectarian services Sunday and Wednesday evenings. 
From Jan., 1879, to Feb., 1880, 125 inmates; average stay, 15 days; ex- 
penditure about $2,000. Dr. Albert Day, M. D., gives services. Report 
published annually, in February. Managers. Pres., Mrs. J. Wesley Bar- 
ber, Newton; Treas., Mrs. O. N. Chase, 86 Boylston St.; Sec’y, Mrs. B. 
F. Redfern, 333 Columbus Av. 
NICKERSON HOME, page 58. 3?tempenratethe 
INDUSTRIAL AID SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTIONHome- 
OF PAUPERISM, page 6. orferms?vessels 
MASSACHUSETTS TEMPERANCE ALLIANCE (incor influences 
1866), 28 School St., Ward X. legislation, etc. 
Aims to prohibit the sale and discountenance the use of intoxicating 
drinks, by influencing legislation and popular opinion. Pres., Rev. A. A. 
Miner, D.D.; Treas. and Sec’y, Chas, A. Hovey. Executive Committee 
of about 100. 
MASSACHUSETTS TOTAL ABSTINENCE SOCIETY Lectures, tracts, 
(incor. 1875), 11 Congregational House, cor. Beacon andSSo-e c’ 
set sts., Ward X. Apply to Oeril Agent and Sec'y, Benj. R. 
Jewell. 
Advocates and extends the principles and blessings of total abstinence 
by moral and religious agencies, and aids in the suppression of intemper- 
ance. Gives addresses (especially before public and Sitnday schools), 
distributes tracts; also offers prizes for composition. Annual expenditure 
about $lO,OOO. Pres., Wm, B. Spooner; Treas., Chas. L. Hey wood, 96 
Tremont St. 
BOSTON INDUSTRIAL TEMPORARY HOME, page 62. Temperance 
’ x ° meetings. 
BOSTON NORTH END MISSION, page 23. Temperance 
0 meetings. 
CHRISTIAN WORKERS, page 90, Temperance 
1 ° meetings. 
PORTLAND STREET MISSION, page 23. Temperance 
meetings. 
WOMAN’S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION OF BOS-Temperance 
TON (1874). Apply at Head-quarters, Room 3, Odd Fellows meetings- 
Hall, Tremont St, cor. Berkeley, from 10 to 2. 66 
REFORM—LITE RATURE. 
Aims to spread total abstinence principles, especially socially. Re- 
ligious temperance meetings, evenings, in different sections. Helps drunk- 
ards who are willing to reform, by visits at their homes. Distributes 
temperance literature. In 1878-79, spent $5,671.78. Pres., Mrs. A. J. 
Gordon; Sec’y, Mrs. A. Jennie Jones, 11 Revere St.; Treas., Miss E. J. 
Webster, 28 Greenwich Park. 
Temperance CITY MISSIONARY SOCIETY, page 84. 
pledges procured. a 
Both sexes. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS (1859, 
secret. incor. 1877 ; reorganized). See Boston Directory for location 
of lodges. 
Spreads temperance principles, aids the members of the Order to help 
the fallen, and to save others from falling. Material aid given to mem- 
bers, and to others, as far as means allow. G. W. C. Templar, F. A. 
Ellis, Brighton; G. W. Sec’y, Mrs Annie G. Brown, 28 East Canton St. 
Both sexes. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS (1858), 
secret. secret. See Boston Directory for loQation of lodges. 
Aim to “ save the fallen, and keep others from falling,” by advancing 
the cause of temperance. Membership, about 7,000. G. W. C. Templar, 
Joshua Gill; G. W. Seo’y, Sarah A. Leonard, 28 School St., Room 36. 
LITERATURE: 
Literature purl- NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION 
fied- OF VICE (1878). Apply to Sec'y, Rev. F. B. Allen, care 
Allen, Lane & Co., 266 Devonshire St. 
Endeavors to purify literature and check the spread of immoral agen- 
cies, by appeals to publishers and dealers in newspapers and cheap nov- 
els, and by influencing legislation. Special cases investigated, and when 
necessary, prosecuted. Pres, Col. Homer B. Sprague; Treas., Charles 
J. Bishop, 121 Devonshire St.; Agent, Anthony Comstock. HUMANE. 
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CLASS X.-HUMANE. 
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ization, but of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of 
the page.] 
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION Animals Pro- 
OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (incor. 1868), 96 Tremont St.,tected- 
Ward X,, open, 9to 6. Appiy to any agent, in cases of cruelty, 
giving name and residence of offender when known, and number 
of team if licensed; if possible, names of two or more witnesses 
and a full statement of facts. All communications to the 
society are confidential. 
Enforces laws against cruelty to animals, and does what it can for 
humane education. Offers prizes, and distributes tracts gratuitously. 
Publishes “Our Dumb Animals” monthly. In 1879-80 spent $10,525; 
3,545 cases. Directors. Pres., George T. Angell; Treas, O. W. Pea- 
body ; Sec’y, A. Pirth. 
THE MASSACHUSETTS CHILDREN’S PROTECTIVE Children pro- 
SOCIETY (1877, incor. 1878). Merged in the Society follow-tecte<L 
ing. 
THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREYEN- Children pro- 
TION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN (incor. 1878), 1 Pem-tected- 
berton Sq., Room 7, Ward X. 
Receives cases of cruelty and abuse against any person under 21 years 
of age; investigates them and brings the perpetrators before the_magis- 
trates when necessary; influences better treatment of children in their 
homes, and removes deserted and neglected children to hospitals, private 
families, or institutions. Accepts no fees. Slavery of Italian children, 
under the cruel padrones, has been largely prevented. Supports a tempo- 
rary home, 145 Chambers St., where children are placed under the care of 
a Matron, until otherwise provided for. All persons who know or sus- 
pect instances of neglect, abuse or cruelty to children in any part of the 
State are requested to report the same. Annual membership, $5; life, 
$5O. Pres., R. E. Apthorp; Treas , Geo. B. Dorr; Gen. Agent, Frank 
B. Fay ; Sub-agent, Edwin R. Smyth. 
LOST OR STOLEN CHILDREN, INQUIRY OFFICE 
(1879), 6 Pemberton Sq., Ward X. Apply to Oeril Agent, 
John Dixwell, M. D., day or night, by mail or telegraph, or in 
person. 68 
HUMANE. 
Discovers lost or stolen children for parents, friends or guardians, at as 
small expense as possible. Liberates Italian slaves from their padrones. 
Insures to those wishing to board out infants or older children, their 
proper care and maintenance, and to the women who receive the children 
into their homes, prompt payment of the board. 
Life-saving. THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE COMMONWEALTH 
OF MASSACHUSETTS (1786, incor. 1791). Apply to Thos. 
Motley, chairman of standing committee, 62 State St. 
Aims to preserve human life, on the sea-coast and elsewhere. Rewards 
of merit, not exceeding $2O, are given to any citizen of this Common- 
wealth who by signal exertion or peril saves or attempts to save human 
life, or to any person who does the same for the life of a citizen of this 
Commonwealth. Sec'y, H. A. Whitney; Treas., H. H. Hunnewell, 87 
Milk St. 
Public baths. PUBLIC BATHS. Open Ist of June to 30th Sept.; for 
males, on week days 5. A, M. to 9P. M.; and on Sundays 5 to 
9a,m. ; for females, on week days 6A.M.to 8 P. M.; on Sun- 
days 6to 9-| A. M. Expenses, 1878-9, $21,676. The following 
schedule shows the situation of the bathing-houses, and for 
whose use: 
Ward IX., West Boston Bridge, for males. 
Ward yill., Cragie’s Bridge, for males. 
Wards VI and VII., Charles River Bridge, for males. 
Wards VII. and VIII., Warren Bridge, for females. 
Ward 11., Border Street, East Boston, for males and females. 
Wards XII. and XIII., Mount Washington Av. Bridge, for males. 
Ward XIV., City Point, between Fourth and Fifth streets, for females. 
Ward XIV., foot of L Street, for males. 
Wards XIII. and XVI., Dover Street Bridge, for males and females. 
Ward XXIV., Commercial Point, Dorchester District, for females. 
Ward 11., foot of Maverick Street, for males. 
Ward 111, Chelsea Bridge, Charlestown District, for males. 
Ward 111., Chelsea Bridge, Charlestown District, for females. 
Ward IV., Malden Bridge, for males and females, at different hours. 
Under the Board of Health, page 13. 
Public health. MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION 
(incor. 1879), Tremont St., Ward X. 
Objects: To procure for its members, at the lowest rates, chemical 
analyses of such articles, manufactured or on sale, as are supposed to be 
poisonous or injuriously adulterated; to check the importation, etc., of 
adulterated articles, protecting all innocent dealers from loss by compelling 
importers and manufacturers to take them back and pay damages; to 
collect publications and facts relating to sanitary science; to procure, at 
the lowest cost, sanitary inspection of the premises of members; to pub- 
lish important facts relating to the preservation of health; to send out 
lecturers; to offer annual prizes for practical application of sanitary sci- 
also for essays on subjects pertaining to public health; to organize 
training schools for cookery, diet kitchens for the sick, and such other 
establishments as experience may suggest. Fifteen Directors. Not yet 
in active operation. HUMANE. 
69 
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, LUNACY, AND CHARITY, |ta^tary mattors- 
page 13. 
CITY PHYSICIAN, S. A. Green, M. D. Office, basement vaccination and 
Charity Building, Hawkins, cor. Chardon St. Open, 10 to 12,re vaccma lon’ 
daily. 
Vaccinates and re-vaccinates, free of expense, over two thousand per- 
sons yearly. Examines children and furnishes a certificate of vaccina- 
tion entitling them to enter the public schools. 70 
MUTUAL BENEFIT—FOR ALL CLASSES. 
CLASS XI.—MUTUAL BENEFIT (chiefly Money). 
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ization, hut of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of 
the page.] 
FOR ALL CLASSES: 
heirsfnd their BOSTON BENEFIT SOCIETY (1839). 
Gives $5 per week for 13 weeks in one year to sick members; on death 
of a member, .fIOO to heirs. Initiation fee, $5; assessment, 50 cts. a 
month; members must pay $ll before receiving benefits. Directors. 
Pres , James T. Tancred, 63 P St.; Sec’y, William Creighton, 12 Hotel 
Warwick; Treas., J. Lee Frost, 243 Tremont St. 
Men. HILDISE BUND SECTIONS OF THE PRUDENTIAL 
LEAGUE, BOSTON. Apply to Agent, Marcus Kallman, Room 
89, Charity Building, Hawkins, cor. Chardon St., 10 to 12; 72 
Westminster St., evenings,'s to 7. 
Insurance for life or number of years, and sick benefits from $4.50 to 
$6O per week (according to amount of insurance) to members who pay a 
small sum regularly each week. 
Young men. BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION, 
page 88. 
Young men. BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN UNION, page 88. 
Young men. SOUTH BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S CATHOLIC ASSOCIA- 
TION, page 89. 
Young women. BOSTON YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA- 
TION, page 92. 
Mutual. MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL AID SOCIETY. Pres, H. 
A. Willis, Fitchburg, Mass.; Sec’?/, F. C. Currier, Fitchburg, 
Mass.; Treas., E R. Rockwood ; Agent for Boston, L. Stephen- 
son, Jr., 19 Congress St., Room 13. 
women. WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL UNION, 
page 91. 
noth sexes. THE NEW ENGLAND EQUITY UNION (1879), 7 Boyl- 
purchases!'6 ston St., Room 2. Open 10 to 5. Apply to the Sec'y, Christel 
Orvis, 7 Boylston St, or any authorized agent. 
By means of a combined and organized system, its members purchase MUTUAL BENEFIT—FOR ALL CLASSES. 
71 
supplies of all kinds at first hand, at lowest wholesale prices, from stores 
already established. Aims at an ultimate system of co-operative produc- 
tion, and will include lyceums and healthful recreations for the industrial 
classes. Annual membership, $1; shares, $5; life membership, $100; 
the last two include a voice in the management. Branch unions through- 
out New England. Executive Committee. Pres., John Orvis; Treas., 
Chas. H. Codman, 34 Bromfield St. 
BOSTON CO-OPERATIVE STORE (incor. 1878), 9 Corn- Both sexes 
hill, Ward VII. Apply for shares or information to Treas., D. operatic/.C 
Eldredge, 30 Cornhill. 
Purposes to induce consumers to buy of themselves, at their own store, 
and thereby save. Sells pure groceries for cash only, at market-prices. 
Shares, $4, upon which six per cent, interest is first paid from the earnings. 
“ Purchasers’ Dividend ” is divided quarterly among the customers, in pro- 
portion to the amount purchased by each ; non-shareholders receiving a 
dividend on but one-half of their purchases. Each shareholder is en- 
titled to but one vote, and cannot hold more than fifty shares. Report 
published annually, in June. Capital paid in, $6,000; 675 shareholders, 
17 Directors. Pres., Hon. Josiah Quincy; Clerk, N. L. Harding; Store- 
keeper, G. L. Pierce. 
HOMESTEAD CO-OPERATIVE SAVING FUND AND Both sexes. 
LOAN ASSOCIATION (incor 1877). Apply for shares or savTngT 
information to Sec'y, D Eldridge, 30 Cornhill, daily. 
Purposes to induce poor persons to save, and to own their houses. 
Shares, $2OO, paid for in monthly instalments of $l, and by the crediting 
of interests and profits. All money paid in at the monthly meeting is 
loaned on the evening of its receipt, to shareholders giving as security 
dwelling-houses, or, under certain restrictions, shares in the corporation. 
Each shareholder has but one vote. Monthly meetings, Stacy Hall, 186 
Washington St., second Wednesday of each month, 7.30 p. m. Report 
published annually, in September. Directors. Pres., Joseph S. Ropes, 
Treas., T. Swadkins, Jr. 
PIONEER CO-OPERATIVE SAVINGS FUND AND Both sexes. 
LOAN ASSOCIATION (incor 1877). Apply for shares or sa°vTngs.ative 
information to Sec'y D. Eldredge, 30 Cornhill, daily. 
Purposes to induce poor persons to save. Shares, $2OO, paid for in 
monthly instalments of $l, and by the crediting of interest and profits. 
All money paid in at the monthly meeting is loaned on the evening of 
its receipt to shareholders, giving as security real estate, or, under cer- 
tain restrictions, shares in the corporation. Each shareholder is enti- 
tled to but one vote. Monthly meetings, Stacy Hall, 186 Washington St., 
first Monday of each month, 7.30 p. m. Report published annually, in 
April. Directors. Pres., Hon. Josiah Quincy; Treas., A. J. Mercer. 
WORKINGMEN’S BUILDING FUND AND LOAN ASS’N, Men. . 
. Qrr Co-operative 
®7 • savings. 
SAYINGS BANKS: Both sexes. 
Boston Five Cents, 88 School St. savings Banks. 
Boston Penny, 1371 Washington St, 
Brighton Five Cents, Wash. St., cor. Chestnut Hill Av., 
Brighton. 72 
MUTUAL BENEFIT—FOE ALL CLASSES. 
Charlestown Five Cents, Thompson Sep, Charlestown. 
Dorchester, Exchange, Harrison Sq. 
East Boston, 16 Maverick Sq., E. B. 
Eliot Five Cents, 114 Dudley St. 
Emigrant, 590 Washington St. 
Franklin, 20 Boylston St, 
Home, Tremont, cor. Boylston St. 
Institution for Savings in Roxbury and Vicinity, 2343 Wash- 
ington St. 
North End, 57 Court St. 
Provident Institution for Savings, 36 Temple Place. 
South Boston, 368 W. Broadway, So. B. 
Suffolk, 47 and 49 Tremont St. 
Union Institution for Savings, 37 Bedford St. 
Warren, 25 Main St., Charlestown. 
West Boston, Receivers of, 17 Pemberton Sq. 
Both sexes. AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR (1878, incor. 1879). 
Secret. Supreme Council, 5 Temple Place, Ward X. Apply to the 
Supreme Commander, Darius Wilson, or the Supreme Secre- 
tary Miss Nettie F. Mosher. 
Men and women (not colored), between 18 and 65 years of age, of good 
social and moral standing, and of sound bodily health, may become bene- 
ficial members by paying initiation fee, not less than $3; quarterly dues, 
not less than 50 cents; and an assessment upon the death of any member, 
varying with the age and degree. Weekly sick benefits, not less than 50 
cents a week. Death benefit, |5OO to $5,000, according to the degree of 
the deceased member. Publishes the “Journal of the A. L. of H.,” month- 
ly, 25 cents a year. 
Both sexes. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS, page 
Secret. gg 
Men and their BENEVOLENT AND PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS, 
heirs. Secret. Bostori) Lodge No. i 0 (1878, incor. 1879). Secret, 
Gives assistance to members sick or out of employment, according to 
the discretion of the relief committee. Also $lOO, when needed, for burial 
of member. Initiation fee, |2O; and yearly assessment, $6. 
ELKS MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION.—At the death of a 
member, each member pays |1; the amount being given to the heirs of 
the deceased. 1879, 150 members. Sec’y, J. Frank Davidson, 109 State 
St. 
Men and their THE ANCIENT ORDER OF UNITED WORKMEN (1868 ; 
heirs. Secret. *n Massachusetts, 1879). For information, etc., apply to 
Grand Master Workman, Thos. F. Temple, Registry of Deeds. 
Death benefit, $2,000; in most lodges, sick benefits $5 a week, for not 
more than 13 weeks. Average annual cost to members, $l7, paid in assess- 
ments of 75 cents or |l. Applicants for membership must be white male 
citizens, over 21 and under 50, of sound health, and good moral char- 
acter. 
Six lodges in Boston. MUTUAL BENEFIT—FOE ALL CLASSES. 
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KNIGHTS OF HONOR (secret), 730 Washington St., Wts of Honor 
Ward XII. See Boston Directory for locations of Lodges. secret. 
Aid any member or his family when sick or in need of assistance, and 
pay funeral expenses. 
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS (secret), 176 Tremont St., Ward Knights of Pyth- 
X. See Boston Directory for locations of Lodges. 'secret?families' 
Aid any member or his family when sick or in need of assistance, and 
pay funeral expenses; provide watchers. Members can secure life insur- 
ance, fl,OOO, $2,000 or $3,000. 
BOSTON MASONIC MUTUAL BENEFIT ASSOCIATION families- 
(incor. 1879), Masonic Temple, Room 30, cor. Boylston and cre' 
Tremont sts.. Ward X. Apply to Pres, and Directors, at the 
office, any evening excepting Saturday and Sunday. 
Gives as many dollars as there are members, to the family of deceased 
member, or to the person specially assigned by him. Admission fee, for 
Master Masons under 50, in good standing and health, $3 or more accord- 
ing to age. Each member is assessed one dollar and ten cents whenever 
a death occurs. Directors. Pres., John L. Stevenson; Treas., Albert C. 
Smith; Clerk, Frank L. Stevenson, P. O. Box 949. 
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS MASONIC MUTUAL RE- Masons and fam- 
LIEF ASSOCIATION (1873, incor. 1878). Office, Masonic 
Hall, South Boston ; open from 9 to 5. Apply to Sec'?/, M. C. 
Davy, 48 Summer St., or any director. 
Provides for the expenses of the last sickness of any member, and upon 
his death gives to his family as many dollars as there are members 
(1,400, May 1, 1880). Master Masons, under 50, join by paying $5 or 
more, according to age. Keport published annually, in October. Over 
$6,000 paid out yearly, and about 7 families aided. Directors. Pres., 
Edw. H. Brainard; Treas., P. C. Hersey. 
MASONIC SOCIETIES (secret), Masonic Temple, Tremont Masons and fam- 
St., cor. Boylston, Ward X. See Boston Directory for locationsllies- Secret- 
of Lodges. 
Aid any member or his family when sick or in need of assistance, and 
pay funeral expenses. 
ODD FELLOWS (secret), 515 Tremont St., cor. Berkeley, 
Ward XVII., open from 9to 12. Also, see Boston Directory 
for locations of Lodges. 
Aid any member or his family when sick or in need of assistance, and 
pay funeral expenses. 
ODD FELLOWS’ RELIEF ASSOCIATION. Pres., C. B Odd Fellows. 
Newton; Sec'y, W J Young; Treas., Chas Hayden; Chair- 
man of Aid Committee, C. D. Cole, 515 Tremont St. 
SONS OF TEMPERANCE (secret). See Boston Directory sons of Temper- 
for locations of Divisions. ““ 
Aid any member or his family when sick or in need of assistance. 74 
MUTUAL BENEFIT—FOR SPECIAL CLASSES, ETC. 
Templars of Hon- TEMPLARS OF HONOR (secret). See Boston Directory 
or and families. „ , r. m -i 
Secret. for locations ol Temples. 
Insists upon total abstinence. Aid any member or his family when 
sick or in need of assistance. Grand Worthy Recorder, H. A. Cann, 
5 Dock Square. 
Men. Secret. INDEPENDENT ORDER OF RED MEN (German, secret). 
See Boston Directory for locations of Lodges. 
Men. Secret. ROYAL ARCANUM (secret). See Boston Directory for lo- 
cations of Councils, 
Women. Secret. HOME CIRCLE (secret). Connected with the Royal Arca- 
num. 
FOR SPECIAL CLASSES AND FOREIGNERS: 
Boston Post- BOSTON POST OFFICE MUTUAL RELIEF ASSOCIA- 
andIheTrPheirseS (1878), Post Office Square, Ward X. 
Gives to members, in case of sickness, accident, etc., necessitating ab- 
sence from duty beyond 30 days, f 2 per week, not exceeding 10 weeks in 
any one sickness, and 20 weeks in any one year. The Committee on 
Yisitation investigates. A death benefit, $2 from each member, is paid to 
the heirs of the deceased member. Employes of the Boston Post Office 
join by paying f1; assessments, 25 cts. per month, and f2 at the death of 
any member. Trustees. Pres., T. A. Hutchins; Sec’y, John McDonough; 
Treas., Charles Soule. 
East Boston EAST BOSTON FERRY RELIEF ASSOCIATION. Pres , 
Ferry employees. j0hn L. Ellis, E. B. So. Ferry ; Treas., John Alexandei', E. B. 
So. Ferry, Sec’?/, C.E, Pearson, E B. So. Fen’y; Visiting Com- 
mittee, Frank Johnson, Joseph Meirs, J. C. Pike. 
Sick benefit, $7 a week for 6 weeks; after that, by vote of Association. 
Ferry employes join by paying membership fee, $5; monthly assessment, 
50 cts.; on death of any member, $l. 
Highland Bail- HIGHLAND MUTUAL AID SOCIETY (1874). Address 
pioyeea.'em” any officer at the Highland Railway Office, 827 Shawmut Av. 
Assists members (who must be employes of the Highland Railway Co.) 
by a sick benefit of $6 per week. Average yearly cost to members, $3.76; 
average yearly expense, $333.76. Reading-room. Trustee, J. E. Rugg; 
Sec’y, W. H. Clark. 
Fellows of Mass. MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY 
Medical society (1857, incor. 1871). Apply to Pres., H, W. Williams, M. D , 
andfami es. Arlington, . Sec'y, D. H. Hayden, M. D., 201 Beacon, or 
Treas., F. Minot, M. D., 65 Marlboro’ St. 
Affords pecuniary relief to needy members and their families, and to 
other respectable physicians, their widows and minor children. Bene- 
ficiaries receive a regular quarterly allowance, and occasionally a special 
grant is made to an individual. Annual expenditure about $850; average 
number assisted, 14. The members are Fellows of the Massachusetts 
Medical Society; admission fee, f3; annual assessment, $2; life mem- 
bership, $25. MUTUAL BENEFIT—FOR SPECIAL CLASSES, ETC. 
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SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF WIDOWS AND OR- Widows and or- 
PHANS OF DECEASED CLERGYMEN OF THE PROTES taiit Episcopal 
TANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Diocese of Massachusetts (1840, clersy- 
incor 1841). Apply to Sec'y, Rev. Henry Burroughs, D. D., 82 
Mt. Vernon St. 
Holds property in two separate funds, as follows; The Annuity 
Fund.—The widows and children of deceased clergymen, for whom 
there has been paid $5, $lO, $l5, $2O, or $25, annually, are entitled 
to an annuity of five times the amount of such annual contribution, for 
twice the number of years during which it has been paid. Any annual 
contract contributor can withdraw his money, with simple interest at six 
per cent, per annum, upon surrender of his book, thus cancelling his con- 
tract. The Chanty Fund.—Gratuitous,relief is given from this fund to 
the widows and orphans of clergymen who have died in the communion 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church. About $1,500 distributed annually 
to 10 families. Pres., Rt. Rev. Benj. H. Paddock, D. D.; Treas., Howard 
Stockton, 40 Water St. 
AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF CARPENTERS AND Carpenters and 
JOINERS (1860). Apply to Sec'y and Treas., E. T. Lamb, 6Jomer8’ 
Union Park St. 
Influences the reduction of working hours, increase of wages, adoption 
of codes of working rules, establishment of boards of arbitration, and the 
formation of classes for promoting technical education. Unemployed 
benefit for 12 weeks, $3.50 or $2.10 per week; leaving employment under 
circumstances satisfactory to Society, $5.25 per week; tool benefit to any 
amount of loss, or $35 when a member only six months; sick benefit for 
26 weeks, $4.20 per week, and so long as illness continues, $2.10 per 
week; funeral benefit, $B4, or $24.50 when a member only six months; 
accident benefit, members totally disabled, $700; partially disabled, 
$350; superannuation benefit for life, if a member 25 years, $2.80 per 
week; if member 18 years, $2.45; emigration benefit, $42. Any member 
in distress is entitled to the immediate benefit of the Contingent and 
Benevolent Fund. Entrance fee from $2.63 to $12.25; according to age. 
Members of twelve months’ standing are entitled to all benefits by pay- 
ing 35 cts. per week, and 9 cts. per quarter to the Contingent and Benevo- 
lent Fund; or to all benefits, except sick benefits, by paying 27 cts. per 
week and 9 cts. per quarter. 
CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION OF THE BOSTON FIRE Firemen and 
DEPARTMENT (1829, incor. 1830). Apply to the Secretarytheir famllies- 
of the Committee of Relief, W. E. Delano, 36 Summer St., 
Charlestown. 
Gives to any member, receiving injury while in discharge of fireman 
duties, nor less than $5 per week, and pays his apothecary’s and physi- 
cian’s bills as long as the trustees or committee on relief think reasonable. 
Special Fund for the relief of any past , member, or his family, who has 
been honorably discharged. Annual assessment does not exceed $5; life 
membership, $lO. No member is allowed to apply to the City Govern- 
ment for relief under injury sustained at tires. Pres., John S. Damrell, 
47 Hancock St.; Treas., David Weld, 50 Central Wharf; Sec'y, Rufus B. 
Farrar, 1046 Tremont St. 76 
MUTUAL BENEFIT—FOR SPECIAL CLASSES, ETC. 
Mechanics and THE MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE MECHANIC 
their heirs. ASSOCIATION (1795, incor. 1806), Bedford, cor. Chimney St,, 
Ward X Apply to Committee of Belief Chairman, A W. Fol- 
som, Roxbury. 
Beneficence, good-fellowship, and the promotion of the industrial arts 
are the main objects; also, the education of apprentices of members, and 
to assist in patriotic objects. Upon the death of a member, $75 is pre- 
sented to his heirs or assigns, or used for funeral expenses. The Com- 
mittee of Relief seek out and relieve indigent, aged, and infirm members, 
and sometimes a member who has met with an accident. About $5,000 
spent yearly, and about 50 persons aided. A person, to become a mem- 
ber, must be 21, a mechanic in business for himself, of good moral char- 
acter. Within 90' days after election, he must pay admission fee, $25 to 
$5O, according to age; annual assessment, $2. Triennial Exhibitions. 
Property, about $320,000. Pres., Charles W. Slack, 25 Bromfield St.; 
Treas., Osmyn Brewster, Franklin Sav. Bank, Boylston St.; Seo’y, Jo- 
seph L. Bates, 13£ Bromfield St. Trustees. 
Mechanics and MECHANICS’ MUTUAL AID SOCIETY (1842, incor. 
their heirs. 1846) 
Gives to sick members $6 per week, for not over 13 weeks in one year. 
Additional aid, not exceeding $lO at one time, may be given. The widow 
or representative of a deceased member receives $lOO. New members 
must be mechanics between 21 and 45, pay initiation fee, $6, and monthly 
assessment, 50 cts. Annual expenditure about $l,OOO Pres., A. M. 
Blake, Public Library; Sec’y, John S. Welsh, 700 Harrison Av.; Treas., 
Joseph Haynes, 333 Washington St. 
pilots and their BOSTON PILOTS’ RELIEF SOCIETY (incor. 1866). 
families. Apply to E. G. Martin, Sec'y, 41 Lewis Wharf. 
Helps destitute members, if temperate, and their families, at the dis- 
cretion of the Committee on Relief. The members are acting pilots of the 
port of Boston, approved by the Trustees, who have paid $25 admission 
fee and a subscription of $1 a quarter. Fund, $14,000. Pres., Capt, 
Alfred Nash; Treas , Wm. Babson, Jr. 
Policemen and BOSTON POLICE RELIEF ASSOCIATION (1871, incor. 
their families. 1876). Apply to the Clerk, Geo. A. Walker, at 2.15 P. M., on 
the first Saturday in each month, at the Charity Building, 
Chardon, St,, Ward VII. 
Pays $5OO on death of member, to persons designated by him; $lOO to 
member at death of his wife. Pays $1 per day for not over 180 consecu- 
tive days to sick members. Police'officers of good moral character, and 
able to do active police duty, become members by paying $lO admission 
fee, and $3 semi-annual assessment. The chief source of revenue is the 
annual Police Ball. Spends about $7,000 a year, and aids about 150 per- 
sons. Report published annually, in February. Visiting Committee of 
3 for each station. Directors. Pres., Henry O. Goodwin; Treas., Har- 
vey N. Follansbee, office of the Supt. of Police. 
Printers. FRANKLIN TYPOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY (1824, incor. 
1825). Apply to Sec'y, Henry R. Danforth, Transcript Office, 
or to Visiting Committee. MUTUAL BENEFIT—FOR SPECIAL CLASSES, ETC. 
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Each member, not owing two quarterly assessments, in case of sickness 
or disability, not caused by improper or immoral conduct, is entitled to 
$3 per week, commencing on the eighth day of sickness. Death benefit, 
$75. Library of 2,000, volumes. This Society and the Typographical 
Union, No. 13, are joint owners of a lot in Mt, Hope Cemetery, where a 
place of burial is provided without expense to deceased members of either 
society, or printers not otherwise provided for. During 1879, $1,550 paid 
in benefits to the sick. Any person connected with the printing business, 
between 21 and 45, and in good health, becomes a member by election, 
the payment of admission fee, $5 to $lO, according to age, and quarterly 
assessment of $1.25. Trustees. Pres., James J. Nolan, 4 Pearl St.; 
Treas., Hugh O’Brien. 
BOSTON MARINE SOCIETY (1742, incor. 1754), 13 Sea-captains and 
Merchants’ Exchange, Ward X. Apply in writing to Pres., eir amiies> 
Harvey Scudder, 225 Tremont St., or to Committee of Belief: 
Octavius Howe, 73 Court St.; R. G. F. Candage, 18 Merchants’ 
Exchange; J Henry Sears, 92 State St.; G. B. Smith, 3 
Worthington St ; Nath. Spooner, 62 Long Wharf. 
Relieves unfortunate and aged members of twro years’ standing, who 
are or have been masters of vessels; and on the decease of a member, his 
widow, as long as she remains so, his minor children, and in extreme 
cases older children. Should any member die within two years after 
joining, leaving a destitute widow or children, whatever moneys he has 
paid in may be remitted them; but they have no further claim on the So- 
ciety. Pays funeral expenses of member to the amount of $5O, when 
needed. The Committee of Relief inquires into the circumstances of all 
applicants, and commends aid. The trustees grant relief, not exceeding 
$5O in any one case. Payments are made quarterly. Persons who have 
been commanders of vessels can become members by election, on pay- 
ment of $25, and an annual assessment of $3; life members pay from 
$lO to $45, according to age. Members of 70 years are exempt from annual 
payments. About $1,700 is given quarterly to about 50 applicants. Sec’y, 
Henry Howard, 13 Merchants’ Exchange; Treas., Thomas Lamb, New 
England Bank. 
UNITED STATES MARINE HOSPITAL SERVICE, page sick seamen, not 
gg naval. 
COLUMBIAN CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF SHIP- shipwrights and 
WRIGHTS & CAULKERS OF BOSTON & CHARLES- “ers- 
TOWN (1820, incor. 1822). 
Gives $5 per week during sickness to any member not more than three 
months in arrears, and $5O funeral benefit. The Relief Committee visits 
and provides watchers for the sick. .Admission fee to industrious, sober 
and healthy persons, ss;‘ monthly assessments, 50 cts. Trustees. Pres., 
Charles H. Wellock, 464.Sumner St., E. Boston; Sec’y, Jos. S. Dolbeare, 
9 William St., Cambridgeport; Treas., Wm. L. Dolbeare, Atlantic Av., 
head of Fort Hill Wharf. 
WAITERS’ BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION (1863, incor. Waiters. 
1866). 
Gives $5 a week in cases of sickness, and burial benefits for members 
and their families. Spends about $2,000 yearly. Trustees and Relief 78 
MUTUAL BENEFIT—FOR SPECIAL CLASSES, ETC. 
Committee. Pres., Timothy Twomey, 33 Summer St.; Sec’y, Thomas 
Dunn,32l W. Fourth St.; 'Treas., Wm. Sweetman. 
Catholics. Men. BOSTON WIDOW AND ORPHAN ASSOCIATION (1872, 
incor. 1876), 3 Tremont Row. Treas.,' Peter Shearin, 49 
Charter St. 
Gives $5 per week, for not more than 13 weeks, to sick members, who 
are called upon semi-weekly by the Visiting Committee during sickness; 
$5O allowed for burial of member. Members must be from 18 to 40 years 
of age when they join, pay $2 admission fee, and 50 cts. each month. 
Sec’y, Michael Devine. 
Colored men. ALEXANDER DUMAS ASSOCIATION (1870). 
Object: mental and social improvement, and’to care for sick and bury 
dead members. Colored men only admitted as members. Pres., W. H. 
Phillips, 29 Grove St.; Sec’y, David Harold; Treas., J. Harold. 
Colored men and FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION. 
their families. 
Cares for its sick, buries its dead, and aids the widows and orphans of 
members (colored men). Funds, $2,300. Pres., B. F. Janey; Sec’y, 
E. T. Morris; Treas., R. N. Gordon. 
German men and BOSTON TURNYEREIN (1849, incor. 1871), the Turnhalle, 
‘he r(ami,ies- 29 Middlesex St, Ward XVI. 
Promotes intellectual and physical culture. Active members, mostly 
Germans, pay an annual assessment of $9, and are entitled to $5 a week 
sick benefit. Children of poor families are aided periodically by the 
ladies connected with the Society. The building contains a gymnasium, 
billiard rooms, bowling-alley, concert hall, reading-room, with library of 
1,000 volumes, restaurant and parlors. Publishes the “ Turner Zeitung,” 
weekly. Pres., E. Sterr, 2 Bromfield St.; Sec’y, Ph. Davis, 26 Sterling 
St.; Treas., Julius Meyer, 442 Washington St. 
irishmen. AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HIBERNIANS (1857, incor. 
1861), Apply to Chairman of the Visiting Committee, Owen 
Rogan, 96 Leverett St., who examines all cases. 
Gives $3 per week to members while sick, and a death benefit of $25. 
New members must be of good moral character, good bodily health, and 
under 40 years of age. Worthy persons not entitled to benefits often 
receive donations, or funds raised by subscription. 
Italian men. ITALIAN BENEY. SOC., page 31. 
Portuguese and PORTUGUESE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY (1866), Lusitana 
then families. Hall, 161 Hanover St. Apply to any member. 
Gives sick benefit, f5 a week, for not more than 13 weeks in one year, 
and $3O for burial. Members must be natives of Portugal, of good char- 
acter, have a doctor’s certificate, and pay initiation fee, $5 (aged 18 to 45), 
or $lO (aged 45 to 60); regalia, etc., $2.75, and monthly fee, 50 cts. Pres., 
E. J. Barcellos, Hanover St.; Sec’y, Joao It. Carvalho; Treas., 
Antonio G. Farpeilha, 74 Cross St. 
PORTUGUESE UNlON—gives the sum of $1 from each member to 
the widow of any member upon his death. Initiation fee, $1 to $2, ac- 
cording to age. MUTUAL BENEFIT—FOE, SPECIAL CLASSES, ETC 
79 
NEW ENGLAND SCANDINAVIAN BENEVOLENT SO-Scandinavians. 
CIETY, page 81. 
BOSTON CALEDONIAN CLUB (1853, incor. 1869), cor. Scotchmen. 
Chauncy and Essex sts., Ward X. 
Provides for the preservation of the literature and costumes of Scotland, 
the encouragement and practice of athletic games, and the formation of a 
library, and the mental and physical development of its members. Pays 
$3O for funeral expenses of every officer and member. Initiation fee, $2; 
quarterly dues, 50 cts. 
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF ZION (1845), vestry of Zion Colored women. 
Church, North Russell St., first Thursday of each month. 
Members (colored women) paying $8 admission, and 25 cts. monthly, 
receive aid immediately if taken sick; those paying $4 admission, and 25 
cts. monthly, wait one year before receiving full aid, but, if sick mean- 
while, are not neglected. $2O allowed for funeral expenses; if a member 
dies without relatives, the Association takes full charge. _ Pres., Mrs. 
Eliza Lawton, Market St., Cambridgeport; Treas., Miss Eliza Gardner, 
20 N. Anderson St. 
FEMALE BENEVOLENT FIRM (1852). Colored women 
Gives to sick and poor members (colored women) $3 per week sick 
benefit; $25 at death. Pres., Mrs. Emma Gray, Phillips St,; Treas., 
Mrs. Georgena Smith, 86 Pinckney St.; Secy, Mrs. Mary Howard, 42 
Warwick St. 80 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—COLLEGES, ETC. 
CLASS XII.—EDUCATIONAL AND DELICIOUS. 
(The marginal notes do not give a synopsis of all the work done by an organ- 
ization, but of that part only which comes under the class named at the top of 
the page.] 
industrial. See also INDUSTRIAL TRAINING, page 6. 
COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, AND MU- 
SEUMS ; 
Dental. BOSTON UENTAL COLLEGE (incor. 1868), 485 Tremont 
St , Ward XYI. Infirmary—apply from 9to 1, except Sun- 
day, from Oct. to May. 
For the advancement of dental science and art, by means of lectures, 
clinical instruction, library, and museum. THE INFIRMARY affords 
gratuitous dental treatment to poor persons, who pay for the gold or 
other material used. Trustees. Pres., Isaac J. Wetherbee, D. D. S.; 
Sec'y, C. H. Osgood, D. D. S., 147 Tremont St.; Treas., Robert L. Rob- 
bins, D. D. S., 708 Tremont St. 
Normal art MASSACHUSETTS NORMAL ART SCHOOL (1878) 28 
School St., Ward X. Probably not here after July Ist, 1880. 
Mai drawing. Apply to W. T. Meek, Curator. 
Qualifies persons, over 16, for teachers of industrial drawing. Residents 
of the State pay no tuition ; others, $lOO a year. Day school, 9tol a. m., 
2t04 p. m., Oct. to June. Evening school, Monday, Wednesday, and 
Friday, 7to 9. Open in October for 5 months. Fee, $6 a year. Under 
the State Board of Education. Director, Walter Smith. See Drawing 
Schools, page 82. 
Normal schools. STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS, Bridgewater, Framingham, 
Salem, Westfield, and Worcester, Mass Apply to Sec’y State 
Board of Education, State House, Boston, or to the Principals 
of the Schools. 
Prepare pupils to teach in the public schools of Massachusetts. 
Tuition free. The State Board of Education gives aid to needy students. 
Lectures, labor- LOWELL INSTITUTE. Founded 1838, by the will of 
sohoofot practi- John Lowell, Jr., who left $237,000 in trust for the raainten- 
oai design. ance and support of public lectures in Boston, for the pro- 
motion of the moral, intellectual, and physical instruction 
and education of the inhabitants. Trustee, John Amory 
Lowell. 81 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—COLLEGES, BTC. 
The chief purpose of this foundation is the delivery of free courses of 
lectures on religious, scientific, and literary subjects. The lectures are at 
present delivered at Huntington Hall, 187 Boylston St. Tickets may be 
obtained as advertised in the newspapers. 
At the Institute of Technology, in addition to instruction in Practical De- 
sign (see below), there are given under the auspices of the Lowell Institute, 
and at its charge, courses of lectures and instruction for advanced students. 
Applicants of either sex must be over 18 years of age, and apply to 
Robert H. Richards, Sec’y Institute of Technology, 191 Boylston St., in 
their own hand-writing, stating age, occupation, and previous preparation. 
The details of the courses are announced annually, in October. 
LOWELL SCHOOL OF PRACTICAL DESIGN, Mass. Practical design. 
Institute of Technology, 191 Boylston St. Applicants must 
present themselves on the Wednesday or Thursday preceding 
the last Monday in September, and bring specimens of their 
work. 
Provides free instruction to students of both sexes in making patterns 
for prints, silk, paper-hangings, carpets, etc. Students supply their own 
instruments and materials. Looms provided for weaving the designs. 
Director, Charles Kastner. 
STATE PRIMARY SCHOOL (1866), Monson, Mass. fc“y Boys’*"8 
Intended as a training school forwards of the State (boys or girls), and Birls- 
whom it is necessary to support by reason of poverty. A few children 
committed until majority to the care of the State Board of Health, 
Lunacy and Charity, for minor offences, supposed to be caused by their 
surroundings, are sent here. For these, towns pay fl a week for each child 
charged to them. A few pauper women, having children here, assist in 
the work of the institution. Seven schools. In 1879, average number of 
pupils, 450; 121 were put in places. May, 1880, 413 inmates. Managed 
by the Trustees of the State Primary and Reform Schools. Seven 
Trustees, including two women. Under the supervision of the State 
Board of Health, "Lunacy and Charity, page 13. Sup't, Col. Gardiner 
Tufts. 
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Apply at the nearest school- rubiic^ehoois. 
house, or at the special school desired. mar, high, Latin, 
. normal, evening, 
Any child over five years of age, residing m Boston, and showing a licensed minors, 
certificate of vaccination (see City Physician, page 69), admitted free. deaf. 
When preparing for college, boys at eight years, and girls at twelve, are 
admitted to the Latin Schools. Besides primary, grammar, and high 
schools, there are 23 evening schools (intended for adults and such chil- 
dren as are not attendants at day schools), normal school for girls, Dart- 
mouth St., 2 schools for licensed minors, North Margin St. and East St. 
Place, and the Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Warrenton St. 
THE EVENING SCHOOLS are located as below: 
HIGH SCHOOL, SOUTH ST. 
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. 
East Boston, Basement of Lyman School-house. 
Charlestown, Basement of Warren School-house. 
North Bennet St., Ward Room. 
Anderson St., Ward Room. 82 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—COLLEGES, ETC. 
Blossom St., Wells School-house. 
Old Franklin School, Washington St., near Dover. 
Hudson St., Ward Room. 
South Boston, 331 Broadway and Lincoln School-house. 
Highlands, Ward Room, Dudley St. 
Cabot St., Bath-house. 
Jamaica Plain, Village Hall, 
Dorchester, Almshouse. 
Brighton, Wilson’s Hotel. 
Neponset, Vestry Unitarian Church, Walnut St. 
DRAWING SCHOOLS. 
Rice Primary Building, Appleton St. 
Starr King School Tennyson St. 
City Hall, Charlestown. 
Savings Bank Building, East Boston. 
Old Washington School, Roxbury St., Roxbury. 
Old Florence School Building, Florence St., Roslindale. 
NOTE. 
S'lducat?onChes If insfcruction in the higher branches is desired by those of 
small means, it may be obtained through scholarships or other- 
wise, 
By young men at 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY (1638, incor 1650), Cambridge, Mass. 
Dean, Chas. F. Dunbar. 
Law School, n 
Scientific School, £ Apply to Dean. 
Divinity School, j 
Medical School (1782), No. Grove St., Boston, Ward IX Dean Dr 
Calvin Ellis. ’ 
Hussey Institution. School of Agriculture and Horticulture 11870’! 
Jamaica Plain, Ward XXIII. Dean, Prof. Francis H, Storer. ’ 
Dental School (1868), 50 Allen St., Boston, Ward IX Been T tt 
Chandler, D. M. D. 
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY fincor 18611 
191 Boylston St., Ward XI. Seo'y, Rob’t H. Richards. ' ’ 
TUFTS COLLEGE (1854), College Hill, Medford. Pres., Elmer H 
Capen. ' 
BOSTON UNIYERSITY. 
College of Liberal Arts, 20 Beacon St. Apply to Dean John W 
Lindsay, S. T. D. 
College of Music, Music Hall, Winter St. Apply to Dean Eben 
Tourjee, Mus. D. 
College of Agriculture, Amherst, Mass. Apply to Pres Wm S 
Clark, LL. D. ’ ‘ * 
School of Theology, 36 Bromfleld St. Apply to Dean, James E 
Latimer, S. T. D. 
School of Late, 36 Bromfleld St. Apply to Dean, Edmund H 
Bennett, LL. D. 
School of Medicine, East Concord St. Apply to Dean, I. Tisdale 
Talbot, M. D. EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—COLLEGES, ETC. 
83 
School of All Sciences, 20 Beacon St. Apply to Dean, John W. 
Lindsay, S. T. D. 
By young women at 
WELLESLEY COLLEGE (1875), Wellesley, Mass. Pres., Ada L. 
Howard. 
BRADFORD ACADEMY, Bradford, Mass. 
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, page 82. 
NOTE. 
For those desiring to read in Libraries, the following are Libraries and 
open and free. See also pages 86 to 92 : reading-rooms. 
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY (1852, incor. 1878), 40 Boylston St., 
Ward XII. 
Branches: 
Brighton, Holden Library, Rockland St., Ward XXV. 
Charlestown, City Hall, City Sq., WardY. 
Dorchester, Arcadia St., cor. Adams St., Ward XXIY. 
East Boston, Lyman School-house, Meridian St., Ward 11. 
Jamaica Plain, Ward XXIII. 
Lower Mills Delivery, Ward XXIY. 
Roslindale Delivery, Florence St., Ward XXIII. 
Roxbury, Milmont St., cor. Lambert Av. 
South Boston, Broadway, cor. E St., Ward XIV. 
South End, West Newton St., cor. Tremont, Ward XYIIL 
STATE LIBRARY OF MASSACHUSETTS (incor. 1826), State 
House, Ward X. 
MEDICAL LIBRARY, 19 Boylston PI. 
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (1791), 30 Tremont 
St., Ward X. 
THE CONGREGATIONAL LIBRARY (1853), Congregational 
House, cor. Beacon and Somerset sts , Ward X. 
NOTE. 
INSTRUCTIVE COLLECTIONS are free to the public at Museums, etc. 
BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS (incor. 1870, opened 1876), cor. 
Dartmouth St. and St. James Av., Ward XI. Saturdays and Sundays, 
from 1 to 5. 
BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY (incor. 1831), Berke- 
ley St., between Boylston and Newbury sts., Ward XI. Wednesdays 
and Saturdays. 
WARREN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (1846, incor. 
1858), 92 Chestnut St., Ward IX. Apply to Dr. J. Collins Warren, 58 
Beacon St., or Dr. Thomas Dwight, 70 Beacon St. 
MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY (incor. 1829), 
Hall, Tremont St., cor. Bromfield, Ward X. Exhibition every Saturday 
during growing season, 12 to 3 p. m. 84 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—MISSIONARIES, ETC. 
MISSIONARIES, TRACT SOCIETIES, ETC.: 
See also CHURCHES, page 93. 
Missionaries. AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY (1816), 23 Franklin St. 
Apply to the Sec'y, Rev. Jas. P. Kimball. 
Distributes gratuitously reading matter of a moral and religious char- 
acter, and supports missionaries. Annual expenditure $90,000. Agent, 
Robert F. Cummings. * 
Bible readers. SOCIETY FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF BIBLE READ- 
ERS IN BOSTON (1868, incor. 1874). Apply to the Readers: 
Miss Waterbury, 66 Pinckney St.; Mrs. Chapin, 6 Garland St.; 
Miss Cutler, 7 Oak St., or any Manager. 
The Readers, assisted by a monthly Executive Committee of four 
ladies, visit the poor in their homes, read to them, assist in providing em- 
ployment, and get needed help from other charities. In 1878, $275 
distributed to the poor. Report published annually, in December. 
Managers. Pres., Mrs. E. G. Tucker; Treas., Miss A, T. Reynolds, 
.Hotel Pelham; Sec'y, Miss Alice Farnsworth, 23 Mt. Vernon St. 
me.uagivensta‘ MASSACHUSETTS BIBLE SOCIETY (1809, incor. 1810), 
away. 8 Beacon St., Ward X. Apply to Executive Committee: Rev. 
John O. Means, Charles Henry Parker, and Hon. Jacob Sleeper, 
at 8 Beacon St.; to the Recording Sec'y, Rev. Daniel Butler; or 
to Agent, Rev. Elijah Cutler. 
Bibles and Testaments, in 30 languages, sold at cost, or distributed 
gratuitously. Report published annually, in May. In 1878-79 over 20,000 
sold at $7,000; over 11,000 given away, at a cost of about $20,000. Trus- 
tees : Pres , Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, LL. D.; Corresponding Sec'y, Rev. 
G. W. Blagden, D. D.; Treas., Chas. H. Parker, 33 Chestnut St. 
etc°kgiv*en<away. WILLARD TRACT REPOSITORY (1866), 2 Beacon Hill 
“ A'Vork of PL, Ward X. 
Faith.” 
Publish, sell, and distribute gratuitously, tracts, books, and two monthly 
publications. A part of “ A Work of Faith,” page 86. 
“andetracts THE CITY MISSIONARY SOCIETY (1816, incor. 1820). 
given away. Office, 19 Congregational House, cor. Beacon and Somerset 
sts., Ward X. Apply to Sup't, Andrew Cushing, 9toll a. m., 
or Rev. D. W. Waldron, 11 to 12 A. M. 
Object; the moral and religious instruction of the poor; particularly by 
maintenance of Sabbath schools, distribution of tracts, and employment 
of missionaries. Supported by Congregationalists, but unsectarian in its 
operations. Temporal relief given by missionaries from private dona- 
tions, the Society making no appropriations for this purpose. Report 
published annually, in January, In 1879, 42,316 visits, by 19 mission- 
aries ; 166,272 papers and tracts and 942 Bibles and Testaments distrib- 
uted; 600 children gathered into Sabbath schools; 1,640 chapel and 
neighborhood meetings held; 410 persons furnished with employment; 
1,640 families afforded pecuniary aid, amounting to $8,142. Pres., Jas. 
White; Sec’y, Rev. Sam’l E. Herrick, D. D.; treas., Sam’l F. Wilkins, 
Howard National Bank, 19 Congress St. EDUCATIONAL, AND RELIGIOUS—FREE CHAPELS. 
85 
CONGREGATIONAL PUBLISHING SOCIETY, Congre- 
gational House, cor. Beacon and Somerset sts., Ward X. Apply 
to the Sec'y, Rev. J. O. Means. 
Distributes religious literature gratuitously. Annual amount of gra- 
tuitous grants about #3,000. Pres., J. Russell Bradford; Treas., Edward 
Gay; Agent, George P. Smith. 
EVANGELICAL BAPTIST BENEVOLENT AND MIS-Baptists. 
SIONARY SOCIETY", Tremont Temple, Ward X. 
When the indebtedness of the Society is reduced to #lOO,OOO, one-half 
the net revenues will be appropriated for benevolent and charitable pur- 
poses. Sec’y, Solomon Parsons, 1 Tremont Temple; Treas., J. H. Con- 
verse, 47 Equitable Building. 
See also, FOR SPECIAL CLASSES, page 86. 
FREE CHAPELS: 
See also CHURCHES, page 93. 
EPISCOPAL CITY MISSION (1829, incor. 1844), Mission Episcopal. 
House, 6 Tyler St., Ward XVI. Open all the time, except 
Sundays. Apply to Missionary, Rev. F. S. Harraden. 
Provides religious worship and Instruction to the poor; also, to a 
limited extent, ministers to their bodily necessities. Relief is given from 
6 Tyler St., on Friday mornings, to the sick and aged of any creed, 
chiefly in food, fuel, and clothing; occasionally in the partial payment of 
rent. Persons are assisted in finding work, and principles of independ- 
ence frugality, and self-respect are inculcated. Visitors welcome. Sun- 
day-school and Bible Class. In 1878-79 about #l,OOO spent, and about 
25 families relieved regularly, besides occasional aid to others. _ Pres., 
the Bishop of the Diocese; Sec’y, Henry W. Nelson, 68 Devonshire St.; 
Treas., John S. Blatchford, 13 Exchange St. 
BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF CHURCHES. Uni-Unitarian, 
tarian. Supports 4 chapels; 
Bulfinch Place Chapel, Ward X., Rev. S. H. Winkley. 
New South Free Church, cor. Tremont and Camden sts., 
Ward XVIII, Rev. W. P. Tilden. 
Hanover St. Chapel, 175 Hanover St., Ward VI., Rev. E. 
J. Gerry. 
Washington Village Chapel, Dorchester St., near Dor. Av., 
Ward .XV , Rev James Sallaway. 
Aims to carry religious instruction and influence to such as have not 
the means to pay for them. Regular Sunday worship and school at each 
chapel and visiting at home by ministers and assistants. Charitable aid 
Hven to very needy, as far as means allow. SEWING SCHOOLS at the 
Hanover St. Chapel and New South Free Church give the garments made 
to the girls instructed. Report published annually, in March. Delegates 
from 8 churches appoint monthly visiting committees to the chapels. 
Pres., Rev. John F. W. Ware, Hotel Brunswick; Sec’y, John Capen, 5 
Worcester Sq.; Treas., Edw. S. Grew, 51 Franklin St. 86 
EDUCATIONAL AND RLLTQTOUS —SPECIAL CLASSES. 
Mission work. LEWIS STREET MISSION (1878), cor. Richmond and Ful 
ton sts., Ward VI. Rev. D. M Stearns. 
Distributes tracts, etc. Sunday and week-day meetings. Unsectarian 
A part of “ A Work of Faith ” (see below). 
Faith!”lkof X WORK OF FAITH (1864), Dr. Charles Cullis, 16 Somer- 
set St. Works and is supported by prayer. Includes 
Beacon Hill Church, page 108. 
Cancer Home, Walpole, page 39. 
Children’s Homes, page 39. 
Coffee Room, page 113, 
Consumptives’ Home, page 39. 
Cottage St. Church, page 108. 
Faith Training College. 
Grove Hall Church, page 108. 
Lewis St. Mission (see above). 
Spinal Home, page 39. 
Willard Tract Repository, page 84. 
inZsmar- UNION FOR CHRISTIAN WORK (incor. 1876), Wards 
“etc’. XXII, and XXIII. Apply at the Chapel and headquarters 
cor. Centre and Waldron sts., Roxbury. 
Provides good homes for children; supplies opportunities for industrial 
education and social intercourse; helps find employment; encourages 
emigration to agricultural districts; cares for the sick; sustains a free 
unsectarian place of Christian worship. Sawing and splitting wood is 
furnished for men and boys, at the Industrial Wood Yard 194 Centre St 
Roxbury. The wood is sold directly to the public at market rates the 
receipts nearly paying expenses of the wood yard. Women are assisted in 
obtaining work, and a few of the more needy supplied with sewing. The gar- 
ments made are given mostly to nursery children, and the industrious poor 
Visitors admitted during working hours. Report published annually in 
May. For the year ending April 14, 1880, over $l,OOO worth of work 
was given. Directors. Pres., Rev. Wm. Bradley, Chestnut Av near 
Sheridan Av., Jamaica Plain; Treas., D. S. Waterman, 24 Dorr St. ’Rox- 
bury; Sec’y, Dr. H. B. Cross, Seaverns Av., cor. Maple PI.. Jamaica 
Plain. ’ 
unsectarian. BETHEL CHAPEL, BOSTON PORT AND SEAMEN’S 
AID SOCIETY, page 26. 
FOR SPECIAL CLASSES: 
Beading distrib- HOSPITAL NEWSPAPER SOCIETY, pao-e 33 
uted to the sick, > 
insane, and pris- 
oners. 
Newsboys’and A READING-ROOM FOR NEWSBOYS AND BOOT- 
ing-room.Vames,BLACKS (1879), 35 Bromfield St., Ward X. Open from 10 
talks, classes, a. M. to 10 P. M. EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—SPECIAL CLASSES. 
87 
A resort where books, papers, games, regular entertainments, practical entertainments, 
talks, drawing-class, etc., will be furnished. Improvement and cleanli- inducements to 
ness are encouraged, and inducements offered to save. Treas., Charles save' 
Davis, Jr., 35 Oliver St. 
AMERICAN SEAMEN’S FRIEND SOCIETY (1828, incor. seamen, chaP- 
-1838). Congregational House, Ward X. Apply to District iries!"Bibies!°n’ 
Seo'y, Rev. S. W. Hanks. tracts, and libra- 
J ries given. 
Sustains chaplains, missionaries, Bible and tract distributers, colpor- 
teurs and others to befriend sailors, both for their temporal and spiritual 
good; places libraries, of about thirty volumes, on sea-going vessels 
leaving New York or Boston, as a loan to the ship’s company. Each 
library contains a Bible and a few religious books, books of biography, 
travel, adventure, science popularly written, history, narrative, etc. Report 
published annually, in May. Since 1858, 6,799 new libraries have been 
loaned, and 6,733 reshipments made; the whole number of volumes afloat 
is 376,442; the books having been available to 266,466 seamen. Twenty 
dollars sends a library to sea in the donor’s name, Pres., Richard P. 
Buck; Cor. Sec’y and Treas., Rev. S. H. Hall, D. D. 
BOSTON SEAMEN’S FRIEND SOCIETY (incor. 1829). Seamen. Mis- 
sionary. Bibles 
Employs a missionary to visit the shipping, who holds meetings in ancl tracts given, 
vestry, 39 No. Bennet St., Wednesday and Sunday evenings. Gives 
Bibles, tracts, and occasional aid. Managers. Pres., Jos. C. Tyler; 
Sec’y, Bradford Torrey; Treas., Geo. Gould, 19 Congress St. 
BOSTON PORT AND SEAMEN’S AID SOCIETY, page Seamen and their 
on children. Read- 
zu‘ ing-room and li- 
brary. Tracts 
distributed and 
books loaned. 
BOSTON NORTH END MISSION, page 23. Unemployed 
men. Beading- 
room. Temper- 
ance and prayer 
meetings. 
WELLS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION (incor. 1879), Wells workingmen. 
Memorial Workingmen’s Club and Institute, 1125 Washington bra^readtng^1" 
St., cor. Dover St., Ward XYI. Open 9A.M.t010 P. M. Sun- ro°m; classes, 
days, 2to 10. Apply to the Supt., John Colwill. etc. Saving so- 
ciety. 
Affords workingmen who pay f 1 a year (or 25c. quarterly) cheerful 
and comfortable club-rooms, with reading-room well furnished with daily 
and weekly papers and the best magazines and mechanical journals. A 
library is in progress. Classes of instruction, social gatherings, debates, 
lectures, entertainments. Savings will be encouraged. All methods of 
inducing workingmen to help themselves will be used. In connection 
with the Club and Institute, the Workingmen’s Building Fund and Loan 
Ass’n (co-operative) has been started. Managing committee of 7 trustees 
and 42 workingmen. Treas., Chas. W. Dexter. 
ROXBURY YOUNG MEN’S FREE UNION (1877), 4 working young 
Pynchon St., Ward XIX. Open every evening, 7to 9.30 ; Sun- “®n. .Library, 
days, 3 to 9. classed enter! 
, . , . . . tainments, etc. 
Aims to aid its members in every way possible in their common in- 88 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS SPECIAL CLASSES. 
terests. Membership free to working young men oyer 17. Library 
reading, and amusement rooms, classes in history, penmanship, etc., en- 
tertainments, employment bureau. Members are encouraged to save, and 
to speak freely to the Superintendent or assistant of any way they may 
Uie Union can help them. Average evening attendance, 73; in 
1879, permanent employment found for 37. Maintained by the First Re- 
ligious Society, but no “ religious work ” is attempted. Supt., Edmond 
T. Dooley. 
£n/iLi- , BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 
room, classes, (1851}, cor. Tx'enxoiit and Eliot sts., Ward X. 
lectures, gymna- 
slum. Bibles, Provides a library and reading-room, social entertainments, lectures 
etc” given c!assesi» book-keeping, music, drawing, etc. Employment bureau; gymna- 
y‘ siura; boarding-house reference list (country and city). Distributes 
tracts, papers, and Bibles. Last annual expenditure, $16,992.40; employ 
ment found for 330. Directors. Pres., Geo. A. Miner: Sec’y, M. R. 
Demmg; Ireas., W. G. Corthell. 
Similar Organizations: 
Charlestown.—Pres., John Addie; Sec’y, J. H. Blanchard; Treas., 
B. Frank Hatch. 
South Boston, 361 W. Broadway.— Sec’y and Treas., Charles H. 
Dalrymple. 
Young men Li- BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN UNION (1851 
roomciassesf incor. 1852), 18 Boylston St,, Ward X, Open every day, in- 
lectures, enter- eluding Sundays, from BA.m.tolo p. m. 
tamments, gym- 
Sun‘ Provides for young men a homelike resort, with opportunities for read- 
■ ’ mg, entertainment, exercise, etc.;, incites its members to mental and re- 
ligious culture, and to practical philanthropy. Library of 5,000 volumes 
newspapers, etc. Gymnasium. Practical Talks during the winter sea- 
son upon Science, Biography, Travel, etc. Dramatic and musical en- 
tertainments. Classes in book-keeping, elocution, languages history 
parliamentary law, vocal music, practical ethics, etc.; free to members’ 
except music. Public religious services Sunday evenings. Members are 
provided with seats in any church, free, or at ainoderate expense. Sick 
members are visited at their rooms, and medical treatment and other aid 
given if needed. Good boarding places are provided at moderate prices. 
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU FOR MEN, open 8 a. m. to 5 p m • 
BUREAU OF REFERENCE FOR WOMEN, open 10 a. m. to 12 m. ’ ’ 
THE COUNTRY WEEK (1875). Miss H. G. Putnam, Sec’y of 
Committee, 18 Boylston St., 10 a. m. to 12 m. daily. Sends poor, deserv- 
ing children, sometimes adults and working girls, for a vacation of a 
week or fortnight to country homes; the Committee visits the country 
and city homes, and selects children by the help of missionaries, teaclmrs 
friends1618’ providing clotllinS if necessary, and paying fares for visits "to 
. Carriages are furnished for drives into the country, to invalids in needy 
cn cumstances; car tickets are distributed through missionaries and Bos- 
ton Flower Mission. Persons in want bringing reliable letters are re- 
lieved by efforts to procure the needed aid from private beneficence or 
trom the properly organized charity. Report published annually, in 
April. In 1879-80, over $BOO for Christmas and New Year’s Festival for 
poor children; nearly $7OO for rides for invalids; $5,663.18 for the Coun- 
try Week; 227 young men and 151 young women found employment. EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—SPECIAL CLASSES. 
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Annual membership to the Society, f1; subscription membership, $5; 
life membership, $25. The payment of fire successive subscription 
memberships constitutes a life membership.. Directors. Pres , Wm. H. 
Baldwin; Sec'y, Frederic S. Clark, 91 Federal St.; Treas., Wm. L. Rich- 
ardson, 76 Boylston St. 
YOUNG MEN’S CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON 
Catholic. It'elig- 
COLLEGE James St, between E. Newton and E. Concord ions, 
sts , Ward XYHI. Open 7.30 to 10 p. m. classes. 
Affords opportunities for the mutual improvement and advancement of 
Catholic young men in religious, literary, musical and dramatic knowl- 
edge. Gymnasium, billiard-room, and reading-room, open every evening 
except Sunday; library; classes open to all, in French, the drama, debate, 
calisthenics and vocal music. Initiation fee, $1; quarterly assessment, 
$l. Directors. Pres., the President of Boston College, ex officio; Re- 
cording Sec’y, Andrew J. Maher; Financial Sec’y, Clarence E. Choate. 
SOUTH BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S CATHOLIC ASSOCIA-elig 
TION (1875), 339 Broadway, South Boston, Ward XIII. Open ions, literary, 
7 to 10 P. M., daily; Sundays, 12 M. to 10 P. M. musical improve 
Affords opportunities for the mutual improvement and advancement of 
■ Catholic young men in religious, literary, musical and dramatic knowl- 
edge. Fee, $l. Pres., Frank Martin; Sec’y, Fred J. Smith; Treas., R. 
T. Murphy; Supt., J. H. Lavery. 
BOSTON YOUNG MEN’S HEBREW ASSOCIATION 
(about 1874). ing-room. 
Special objects; to furnish employment, and to provide a suitable 
reading-room for strangers. Not in working condition, but the directors 
purpose to revive it soon. Pres., Max Fischacher, 37 Tremont St.; 
Sec’y, D. Goodman, 901 Washington St.; Treas., Jacob Fox, 42 Con- 
gress St. 
NEW ENGLAND EDUCATION SOCIETY (1846, incor. Methodist Bpis- 
-1855), 36 Bromfield St, Ward X. 
students aided. 
Loans from $75 to $l6O per year to any indigent pious young man, 
over 16, member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who purposes to 
devote his life to the gospel ministry, and has reached a fixed standard of 
scholarship. Thirteen beneficiaries. Report published annually, in 
March. Pres., D. G. Woodvine, M. D.; Treas., A. S. Weed; Sec’y, Rev. 
N. T. Whitaker. 
AMERICAN COLLEGE AND EDUCATION SOCIETY Proteatan* theo- 
(1816, incor 1874) Office, 10 Congregational House, Ward Kwed. 8U 81 
X. Apply to Corresponding Sec'y, Rev, Increase N. Tarbox, 
D. D. 
Assists worthy young men studying, for the Protestant ministry, and 
young colleges at the West. It is unsectarian, though its funds and its 
students are drawn chiefly from Congregational sources. A candidate 
must be over 16, and show unequivocal testimonials as to his indigence, 90 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—SPECIAL CLASSES. 
his moral and religious character, talents, previous education, and serious 
desire to devote his life to the Christian ministry. No person can be 
aided who uses tobacco in any form. The amount appropriated is the 
least with which a young man can be carried forward, consistently with 
health and a thorough education, after making suitable efforts to assist 
himself and receiving the aid of other public funds and of friends. 
Every beneficiary must promise to refund the whole amount of money 
received from this society, with interest, within one year, if he fails to 
enter into the work of the ministry. Report published annually, in May. 
For the year ending Apr. 30th, 1880, $22,000 was given in appropriations 
to young men. Directors. Pres., Charles Benedict; Treas., James M. 
Gordon. 
rreachers*edu-' THE CHRISTIAN WORKERS (1878). Office, 23 School 
cated. Bibles, St, Ward X., open 9to 6. Apply to Manager, F, S. Clifford. 
tracts, etc., given 1 x J 
away. Publishes religious matter and distributes tracts, religious papers and 
publications, testaments and Bibles, gratuitously; educates converts for 
preachers of the Gospel; and gives pecuniary aid. Religious and tem- 
perance meetings, principally at the Advent Church, Shawmut Av., and 
the Christian Church, Kheeland St. Sec’y, Geo. W. Lewis, Hamil- 
ton PI. 
SentaandnthCeeor AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION (1825, incor, 
gicai students 1847), 7 Tremont Place, Ward X. Apply to Rev. R. R Ship- 
andtrac?sodisS- Pen> or i^3 assistant, 9to 5, daily. 
Publishes tracts and books for free distribution. Other books for sale. 
Aids clergymen, and young men preparing for the ministry. A Ladies’ 
Commission (Mrs. Stephen H. Bullard and others) publishes a Cata- 
logue of Books for Sunday School Libraries, and a list of general reading 
for young persons. Pres., Henry P. Kidder; Treas., Chas. G. Wood, 
7 Tremont PI. 
SfrstudentT10' SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING THEOLOGICAL EDUCA- 
aided. TION (1816, incor. 1831). 
Affords assistance to meritorious theological students. Unitarian. 
Pres., Rev. S. K. Lothrop; Sec’y, Rev. H H. Barber, Somerville, Mass.; 
Treas., Henry G. Denny, 13 Pemberton Sq. 
young people THE MORAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON 
aiuyCincuioatedr' 0871). Apply to Sec'y, Mrs. Caroline P. Nichols, 16 Elm St., 
by lectures and Chelsea, 
conversations; 
books, pamph- Endeavors to instil a respect for the general principles of morality in 
lets, etc., circa- every department of life; disseminates, especially among mothers and 
lated- young people, a knowledge of the divine laws that should govern human 
life in the relation of the sexes; asks of our legislative and executive 
bodies, national, state, and municipal, the enactment of such statutes as 
are needful, and the enforcement of such as exist, for the prevention of 
vice and the promotion of social purity. Works from Nov. to May, by 
means of lectures, conversations, and circulation of pamphlets on physi- 
ology, hygiene, domestic economy, and morality. Pres., Mrs. Abba 
Goold Woolson; Treas., Mrs. S. C. Yogi, 11 Hamilton Place. 
cb°emmusicMl' SIMMONS FEMALE COLLEGE. Provided for by the will 
drawing, design- of John Simmons, in 1870. 
ing, telegraphy, 
etc., to be taught. EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—SPECIAL CLASSES. 
91 
Not yet started. The purpose is the teaching of medicine, music, 
drawing, designing, telegraphy, and other branches of art, science and 
industry, best calculated to enable the scholars to acquire an independ- 
ent livelihood. The Trustees, Benj. F. Brooks, Edw. A. White, Joseph 
Sawyer, hold property valued at $1,400,000. 
WOMAN’S EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (1872, incor. w^emjiar- 
-1877). tions conducted. 
J New fields of ed- 
Promotes the better education of women, by circulation of intelligence ucation opened, 
and discussion, and those wishing to start a new field of education may 
be permitted to bring the matter before this Association. Through its 
endeavors, a Cooking School, a Woman’s Laboratory, Carving and 
Embroidery Schools, etc., have been established. Conducts the Boston 
Branch of the Harvard Examinations for Women, paying the expenses 
of examination, although the women study in their own way, at their 
own expense. Pres., Miss Ellen Frothingham; Sec’y, Mrs. Geo. O. 
Shattuck, 3 Marlboro’ St.; Treas., Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells, 155 Boyls- 
ton St. 
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE UNIVERSITY Mass. 
EDUCATION OF WOMEN (1876, incor. 1877). 
Aims to promote the higher education of women (1) by collecting and 
diffusing information respecting the progress of the movement, and (2) 
by offering pecuniary assistance to young women of promise, encourag- 
ing them to pursue collegiate and post-collegiate courses of study. Aid 
at present given only to students in any university in Massachusetts. 
Pres., Mrs. Wm. F. Warren, Cambridgeport, Mass.; Sec’y, Miss Flor- 
ence M. Cushing, 8 Walnut St. 
WOMEN’S EDUCATIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL UNION women. Free 
(1877), 4 Park St., Ward X. Open 9a.m.to 9 p. m., in winter, ciassel,"iectureg, 
and to 7 P. M. in summer. Apply for employment any day, 
between 11 and 12; written recommendation required; for afternoon, essays 
legal redress, on Wednesday afternoons, between 3 and 6; 
articles for sale received after 10 A. M. 
Object: to increase fellowship among women, and promote the best 
practical methods for securing their educational, industrial and social 
advancement. Free reading-rooms, etc. 
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU,—(References examined and guaran- 
teed) . 
INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT,—Where women’s work is received 
and sold at a small commission. 
PROTECTIVE DEPARTMENT,—Where women defrauded of their 
rightful earnings receive legal redress. 
Classes in various studies, lectures and entertainments, free to mem- 
bers, except in special cases; Sunday afternoon meetings at which essays 
are given by women of different denominational views, to which all 
women are invited. Hygienic lectures * every week during the winter; 
Hygienic room open every weekday between 12 and 1 to young girls who 
cannot pay regular fees, but who need medical treatment and advice. A 
committee" visit the sick. Report published yearly, in May. For the 
year ending May, 1880, $1,643.12 spent; 140 complaints were received by 
the Protective Department; $724.42 recovered; 510 applied for employ- 
ment; and of 220 employers’ applications, 130 were filled. Industrial 92 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—SPECIAL CLASSES. 
Department sold over $450 worth of goods at 10 per cent, commission" 
Board of Administration. Pres , Harriet Clisby, M. D.; Sec’y, Melissa 
Chamberlin, 9 Hanson St.; Treas., Mrs. Sarah E. Eaton, 297 Marlboro’ 
St. 
Eeadl”; BOFFIN’S BOWER, page 29. 
g- BOSTON YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA- 
room, religious TION (1866, incor. 1867~), Boarding House, 68 Warrenton St., 
lielp' Ward XII; apply to Bupt., Miss C. Y. Drinkwater. Indus- 
trial Department, 66 Warrenton St.; apply to Matron, Miss 
Wilder. Employment Office and Transient Home, 92 Carver 
St., Ward XI; apply to Bupt., Miss A. C. Jackson. Open till 
10 P. M, 
BOFFIN’S BOWER, page 29. 
The object is the temporal, moral, and religions welfare of young 
women who are dependent on their own exertions for support; and so 
delicately to bestow services that the self-respect of each shall be main- 
tained. Good moral character and conformity to the rules are required of 
applicants. The Missionary, Mrs. Ellen Montague, seeks out young girls, 
as strangers, destitute, sick or unfortunate, and provides for them. Re- 
port published annually, in March. About 2,000 persons aided yearly, 
besides many destitute families, who receive broken food in return for ex- 
tra work. Pres., Mrs. Henry F. Durant; Sec’y, Miss A. S. Hayes, 68 
Chester Sq.; Treas., Miss Sarah M. Stetson, 48 Worcester St. 
BOARDING HOUSE, 68 WARRENTON ST., —For 175 young 
women. Contains a reading-room, free to any responsible person, and 
Library, 1,000 volumes, for use in house, etc. Board and lodging at cost 
price. Free seats secured, for those unable to pay, in any church. Indi- 
gent students supplied with places to work for their board while at school, 
and with employment during vacation. Sea-side rests free, or for nom- 
inal prices. Relief given in securing employment (not domestic), reduc- 
tion in board bills, care in sickness, and similar works of kindness and 
love. Prayer meetings during the week. 
INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT, 66 WARRENTON ST., —Com- 
bines a boarding-house, adapted in its prices and arrangements to respect- 
able girls of small means, with a free training school, where board can be 
earned while acquiring a knowledge of housework Cooking Classes,—at 
low prices, day and evening. Mme. Favier, instructor. The garments 
made by those learning machine and hand sewing are sold at cost of ma- 
terial to working women. Situations procured. 
EMPLOYMENT OFFICE AND TRANSIENT HOME, 82 CAR- 
VER ST.,—Intelligence office, free to employers and employed; often 
puts the applicant in communication with such avenues as will, by per- 
severing effort on her part, lead to work; transient board to domestics. 
In 1878-79, 875 orders tilled. 
Deaf mutes. DEAF MUTES, SCHOOLS, etc,, page 43. 
Blind' PERKINS INSTITUTION AND MASSACHUSETTS 
SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, page 42. EDUCATIONAL AND EELIGIOUS —CHURCHES. 
93 
CHURCHES ; 
[Many of the churches contribute large sums to the charitable institutions 
of the city. This work is not included in the list. Those marked A, care for 
their own church poor. Those marked B, do not give charity. Those marked 
C, have no organized charity. Those marked D, have not reported. The 
name of the-minister follows the name of the church.] 
Ward. 
BAPTIST. 
VI. BAPTIST BETHEL, Hanover St, cor. North Bennet. Henry d 
A. Cooke. The Ladies’ Bethel Society assists in the work. 
VII. BOWDOIN SQUARE CHURCH, Bowdoin Square, D 
XXY BRIGHTON AVENUE BAPTIST, junction Cambridge St., d 
Allston. Francis E. Tower. 
111. BUNKER HILL BAPTIST CHURCH, Bunker Hill St, A 
Charlestown. Wm. O. Holman. 
Gives annually to the poor of the parish the interest of the “ White 
Fund ” ($1,000); $75 to $l5O raised by the “Ladies’ Benevolent Cir- 
cle ; ” a special collection at Thanksgiving from $4O to $6O, and a 
monthly collection. Apply to the pastor. 
I. CENTRAL SQUARE CHURCH, East Boston. J. Spencer A 
Kennard. 
Provides clothing through the “ Ladies Sewing Circle,” for poor chil- 
dren who may desire to attend Sunday school. Pres., Mrs. Paul Lewis, 
118 Trenton St. 
XYIL CLARENDON STREET CHURCH, cor. Montgomery St. A 
Adoniram J. Gordon. 
XVI. DAY-STAR BAPTIST CHURCH, Appleton, near Tremont d 
St. A. Ellis, 
XX. DEARBORN STREET CHURCH. Chas A. Reese. A 
XIII. D STREET FREE-WILL BAPTIST CHURCH, D, cor. Sil- d 
ver St. Edw. Edmands. 
XXI DUDLEY STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, 137 Dudley St. A 
Henry M King. 
A monthly collection is given to church members, mostly for occa- 
sional relief; a few aged members are allowed appointed amounts. A 
Ladies’ Benevolent Society gives clothing. 
XYIII. EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH, 85 W. Concord St. Wal- d 
lace Webster 
XYIII. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Shawmut Av., cor Rutland St. A 
C. B. Crane. 
V. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Lawrence St., cor. Austin, d 
Charlestown. 
X. FIRST FREE BAPTIST CHURCH, 12 Somerset St. Chas. n 
S. Perkins 94 
EDUCATIONAL AND EELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
Wabd. 
XIY. FOURTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, cor. L St. L. L. a 
Wood. 
Gives about $5O yearly to the church poor; averages 12 persons. 
Apply to Deacon D. D. Alexander, 136 I St. 
XII. HARVARD STREET CHURCH, cor. Harrison Ay. O. T. A 
Walker. 
Gives a monthly collection to the church poor. 
XXIII. JAMAICA PLAIN BAPTIST CHURCH, Centre St., cor. a 
Myrtle, Jamaica Plain. D. H Taylor, 
Gives a monthly collection to the poor, in money or needful articles; 
and a committee of young ladies visit and read with the sick, and fur- 
nish them with fruit and flowers. 
XXIV, NEPONSET AV. CHURCH, Chickatawbut St., Neponset. d 
Jos. Banyard. 
XIX. RUGGLES STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. Robert G. a 
Seymour. 
Gives temporary aid in groceries, clothing, etc., to the church poor, 
and to those in the immediate vicinity. Apply to Pastor's Assistant, 
. E. S. Fletcher, at the office in Reading Room Building, from 8 to 
10 A. M. 
XIV. SOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH, Broadway, cor. F St,, South a 
Boston, Thos. D. Anderson. 
Gives assistance, with the help of the “ Ladies’ Sewing Circle ” to 
members of Sunday school or congregation only, and to members of 
church from church funds. 
XXIV. STOUGHTON STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, cor. Sumner a 
St., Dorchester. Albert T. Dunn. 
A stipulated amount of money is paid out to poor persons yearly. 
XIX. TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH, Shawmut Ay., cor. a 
Madison St. J. Williams. 
11. TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH, Lyceum Hall, East Boston. d 
George F. Warren. 
IX. TWELFTH BAPTIST CHURCH, Phillips St. William C. d 
Dennis. 
X. UNION TEMPLE CHURCH, Tremont Temple. F. M. d 
Ellis' 
XVII. WARREN AVENUE CHURCH, cor. W. Canton St. O. P, a 
Gifford. 
X. CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH, 227 Tremont St. Jas- B 
per F. Wightman. EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES 
95 
Wakd. 
X. CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Tyler, cor. Kneeland St. Perry a 
W. Sinks. 
Gives to the church poor about $lOO yearly. 
CONGREGATIONAL. 
XI. FIRST CHURCH, Marlboro’St., cor. Berkeley. Rufus Ellis. A 
Gives about $5,000 annually to the poor, partly through an “ Em- 
/ ployment Society.” 
X. METROPOLITAN CHURCH, Horticultural Hall, 100 Tre- D 
mont St. H. A. Shorey. 
XVI. TWENTY-EIGHTH CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY,* A 
Berkeley St., cor. Appleton. 
VII. WEST CHURCH, Cambridge St,, cor. Lynde. Cyrus A. A 
Bartol. 
Gives about $5OO yearly to the poor, in money, clothing, food, etc. 
CONGREGATIONAL TRINITARIAN, 
[All Congregational Trinitarian churches work chiefly through the 
agency of the City Missionary Society,—one or more of its missionaries 
laboring in connection with each church.] 
XVII. BERKELEY STREET CHURCH, cor. Warren Av. Win, A 
Burnet Wright. 
XXIII. BOYLSTON CONG, CHURCH, Curtis St., near Boylston A 
Station, Jamaica Plain. S. Sherberne Mathews. 
Aids a large number of the poor through the deaconesses and the 
“ Ladies’ Benevolent Society,” 
XXV. BRIGHTON CONG. CHURCH, Washington St,, opposite a 
Cattle Fair Hotel, Brighton, 
Gives about five or six hundred dollars annually to the poor, with- 
out respect to age, sex, denomination or nationality. 
XI. CENTRAL CHURCH, Berkeley St., cor. Newbury. Jos. T. d 
Duryea. 
XXIII. CENTRAL CONG. CHURCH, Elm St, cor. Seaverns Av., a 
Jamaica Plain. Geo. M. Boynton. 
The Church Treasurer distributes the funds to the church poor; 
the “ Ladies’ Benevolent Society ” gives many garments; and the 
four deaconesses co-operate with them in this work, 
X. CHURCH OF THE PURITANS, 176 Tremont St, Lucius d 
R. Eastman. 96 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
Wakd. 
XXIV. DORCHESTER SECOND CHURCH, Washington St, cor. A 
Centre, Dorchester. Edward N. Packard. 
Distributes annually, in money, among the poor of the Church and 
Parish, about $4OO. 
XXL ELIOT CHURCH, Kenilworth St. Augustus C. Thompson d 
and B. F. Hamilton. 
XV. E STREET CHURCH, South Boston. S. S. Hughson. c 
V. FIRST PARISH CHURCH AND SOCIETY, Harvard Sq., a 
Charlestown. 
XXII. HIGHLAND CHURCH, Parker St., near Tremont. Albert A 
• E Dunning. 
Gives between $3OO and $4OO yearly to poor members of the Church 
and congregation. The district is divided into small sections, with a 
trustworthy individual in charge of each. 
XXII. HOLLAND CHURCH, Parker St, cor. Ruggles. G. Van a 
De Kreeke. 
Gives a weekly collection, about $lOO yearly, to,poor Hollanders, 
especially those belonging to the Society, through the Deacons, who 
investigate all cases of need, and aid such as are worthy. Apply 
to the Deacons, any time after 6 p.m., or to the Pastor, 11 Drury PI. 
XXI, IMMANUEL CHURCH, Moreland St., cor. Copeland. Ly- a 
man H. Blake 
XIX. LENOX STREET CHAPEL. W. L. Lockwood, d 
I. MAVERICK CHURCH, Central Square, East Boston. A 
X MOUNT VERNON CHURCH, Ashburton PI. Sam’l E. a 
Herrick. 
About $4OO are distributed annually, to about 20 families of the 
Church or congregation. “Ladies’ Sewing Circle” and Sewing 
School for Girls. In the season of 1879-80, 332 garments distributed 
to 45 families. 
XII. OLD COLONY CHAPEL, Tyler St, near Harvard D. W. d 
Waldron. Under City Missionary Society, page 84. 
XL OLD SOUTH CHURCH, Dartmouth St., cor. Boylston. a 
Jacob M. Manning. 
Charity is given through the Deacons, chiefly to members of the 
congregation. 
XVIII. OLIVET CHURCH, Concord Hall, W. Springfield St. Fred. d 
H. Allen. 
X. PARK STREET CHURCH, cor. Tremont. John L. a 
Withrow, 
Over $l,OOO, and about 500 garments, are given yearly to an average 
of 400 persons, or 100 families. EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
97 
Ward. 
XIV. PHILLIPS CHURCH, Broadway, near Dorchester St., South d 
Boston. R. R. Meredith. 
XXIV. PILGRIM CHURCH, Stoughton St., Upham’s Corner. Stacy d 
Fowles. 
XVII. SHAWMUT BRANCH CHAPEL, 642 Harrison Av. D. W. D 
Waldron. Under City Missionary Society, page 84. 
XVIII. SHAWMUT CHURCH, Tremont St, cor. Brookline. Edwin A 
B. Webb. 
The Church poor are aided privately, through the Deacons. About 
fl,OOO expended yearly. 
XXIII. SOUTH EVANGELICAL CHURCH, Centre St, cor. Mt. A 
Vernon, AV. Roxbury. Edw. Strong. 
Cares for the poor of its part of Ward XXIII., as occasion requires, 
with the help of the “ Ladies’ Benevolent Society,” and of benevolent 
individuals. 
XXIV. TRINITY CHURCH, Walnut St., Neponset. Robert F. c 
Gordon. 
XVIII. UNION CHURCH, 485 Columbus Av. Frank A. AVarfield. d 
XXIV. VILLAGE CHURCH, River St., near Temple, Lower Mills, a 
Dorchester. 
Between f 100 and |2OO are given to poor widows, maiden ladies, and 
infirm men; also food and clothing to the poor. 
XXI. WALNUT AVE. CHURCH, cor. Dale St, Albert H. Plumb. c 
V. WINTHROP CHURCH, Green St., Charlestown. Alexander a 
S Twombly. 
Gives between $5OO and $l,OOO yearly to the sick and poor of the 
Society, and of the Mission Sunday School; also clothing, through the 
“ Ladies’ Sewing Society.” 
CONGREGATIONAL UNITARIAN. 
XI ARLINGTON STREET CHURCH, cor. Boylston St. John a 
F. W. Ware, 
“ The Ladies’ Union ” gives'sewing to about 125 women, from Nov to 
May, on $8 “ rights ” purchased by ladies or gentlemen, who name the 
recipients; Sec’y, Mrs. S. E. Guild, 80 Beacon St. “ The Channing Cir- 
cle” gives sewing to about twenty women; Sec'y, Miss Alice Jaques, 
83 Boylston St. 
XL BRATTLE STREET CHURCH, Commonwealth Av,, cor. d 
Clarendon St. 98 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
Ward, 
XIY. BROADWAY UNITARIAN CHURCH, between G and H A 
sts. Geo. A. Thayer. 
Gives about $2OO yearly to the poor, mostly outside the Church, 
through the “ Charity Committee,” Chairman, Dr. H. M. Dearborn. 
Also garments made by the “ Sewing Society.” 
X. BULFINCH PLACE CHAPEL, Bulfinch St. Sam’l H. a 
Winkley. See “ Benevolent Fraternity of Churches,” 
page 85. 
11. CHURCH OF OUR FATHER, 50 Meridian St, East Boston, A 
Warren H. Cudworth. 
Missionary Department (1870) open at the Church every Tuesday. 
Gives money, food, fuel, clothing, medicines, etc., to the temperate, 
honest, and industrious poor, mostly of the Church and Sunday 
school. Sometimes sewing is giving out, paid for in money; employ- 
ment is obtained. “ Sewing School ” every Saturday afternoon. 
About $4OO are spent yearly, and from 60 to 80 families, and 150 
children, are aided. Apply to the Missionary, Miss Susan C. Damon, 
to the Pastor, or to any one of the twelve lady managers. 
XVII. CHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES, W. Brookline St,, cor. A 
Warren Av. James Freeman Clarke. 
Between $2OO and $3OO yearly is given to the Church poor, through 
the Almoner, Mrs. Martha D. Prentiss. Between $2OO and $3OO yearly 
is given to the poor of the district, mostly in cloth and clothing, which 
the recipient usually pays for in sewingl About fifty applicants each 
year, who are visited in their homes. Apply to the Committee on Ben- 
evolent Action, Chairman, S. M. Reed, 3 Billings PI., Roxbury; Sec’y 
and Treas., Geo. W. Taylor, 36 Chauncy St. The Sewing Circle (1870) 
works for the New England Hospital, page 37. 
XVIII. CHURCH OF THE UNITY, 91 W. Newton St. Minot J. a 
Savage. 
The “ Ladies’ Benevolent Association ” gives sewing, paid in money, 
to poor women of assured respectability and good character; also, 
mostly to the better class of the poor, clothing, food, fuel, and occa- 
sionally money. From $5OO to $7OO spent yearly. Apply at the vestry, 
Pembroke St., from 2tosp. m. ; Mondays, from Nov.till April. Sec’y, 
Miss E. M. Dinsmoor, 27 Chester Sq. 
XXIY. CHURCH OF THE UNITY, Walnut St, Neponset. A 
About $lOO in money, food, clothing, etc., is given to the poor yearly. 
XXIII. FIRST CONG. SOCIETY, Centre, cor. Eliot St., Jamaica d 
Plain. Jas. W. Thompson and Chas. F. Dole. 
XXIII. FIRST PARISH, Centre St, cor. Church, W. Roxbury. Au- a 
gustus M. Haskell. 
XXY. FIRST PARISH OF BRIGHTON, Washington St., cor. Mar- c 
ket, Brighton. Wm Brunton. EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
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Ward. 
XXIY. FIRST PARISH, Winter St., cor. East, Meeting-House Hill, A 
Dorchester. Sam’l J. Barrows. 
“ The Benevolent Society ” (1865), on alternate Fridays, from Oct. to 
May, gives sewing to 25 temperate, honest, absolutely needy women, 
well known, chiefly Protestants, who are paid at fair rates in money or 
clothing. Some garments are sold to ladies for charitable distribution, 
others to servant girls, and a few to the poor; the rest are given to 
charitable institutions. Also execute orders for fine hand sewing. Food, 
fuel, etc., are provided in extreme cases, and help in sickness. Less 
than $l,OOO are spent annually. 
XXI. FIRST RELIGIOUS SOCIETY, Eliot Sq. John -G. Brooks. A 
The “ Roxbury Female Benevolent Society ” gives sewing through 
the winter, 40c. cash and 10c. clothing each, per week, to about 50 wo- 
men, chiefly those recommended by the Roxbury Charitable Society. 
Fund, about $l,OOO, and $lOO a year from the church. Pres., Mrs. 
Wm. Blanchard, Lambert Av.; Sec’y, Miss L. D. Rogers, 85 Cedar St. 
VI. HANOVER STREET CHAPEL, 175 Hanover St. Edwin J. A 
Gerry. 
Gives about $4,000 to the poor, annually. See “ Benevolent Frater- 
nity of Churches,” page 85. 
XXIV. HARRISON SQUARE UNITARIAN CHURCH, Neponset l> 
Av., cor. Mill St. Caleb Dims Bradlee. 
Y. HARVARD CHURCH, Main St., cor. Green, Charlestown. a 
Pitt Dillingham. 
Gives about $5OO yearly, in money and clothing, to the poor, sick, 
and suffering, with the help of the “ Harvard Benevolent Circle.” 
XY. HAWES PLACE CONG. SOCIETY, K Street, cor. East A 
Fourth, South Boston. 
The “ Home Circle ” (1874) gives about $2OO yearly, in clothes, 
food, etc., and finds employment, if possible, for all needy cases inves- 
tigated by the Committee. Pres., Mrs. Henry Harrington, 152 K St. 
XII. HOLLIS STREET CHURCH, Hollis St. Henry B. Carpenter. a 
The “ Charitable Society ” gives sewing, about 30 cents a week, to 
poor women through the winter season. Pres., Mrs. Joseph Greely, 109 
Pinckney St. 
X. KING’S CHAPEL, Tremont St., cor. School. Henry W. A 
Foote. 
Cares for the Church poor. Pres, of Committee on Charities, Thos. 
B. Hall. The “ Employment Society ” spends nearly $2,000 annually. 
See Ward VI., workrooms, page 9. 
XX. MT. PLEASANT CONGREGATIONAL, 221 Dudley St. d 
XVIII. NEW SOUTH FREE CHURCH, Camden St,, cor. Tremont, a 
William P Tilden, 
Over $l,OOO yearly is given privately for the special assistance of 
those over whom a friendly and helpful oversight is kept. See “ Ben- 
evolent Fraternity of Churches ” page 85. 100 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
Ward. 
XI. SECOND CHURCH, Boylston St., near Clarendon. Edw. a 
A. Horton. 
The “Sewing Circle” furnishes work to many poor women, once a 
fortnight, during the winter. Pres., Mrs. John P. Wetherell, 4 Han- 
cock Av. 
XVII. SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL, Union Park St, Edward E. A 
Hale. 
Give between $2,000 and $3,000 annually, in money, food, clothing, 
sewing, etc., to the Protestant poor of its district, through the Board of 
Charities and the South Friendly Society. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Andrews, 
XXIV. THIRD RELIGIOUS SOCIETY, Richmond St,, Lower Mills, A 
Dorchester. Geo. M, Bodge. 
About $l5O yearly are given to the Church poor, besides the work of 
the “ Sewing Circle.” 
XII. WARREN ST. CHAPEL (1836, incor. 1863), 10 Warrenton A 
St. William G. Babcock. 
A free church for the young. Gives a few hundred dollars each year 
for the relief of needy Chapel children. Free day and evening schools 
with a sufficient number of volunteer teachers for six or eight scholars 
in a class. Free kindergarten supported by Mrs. Pauline Shaw. Holi- 
day festivals at Music Hall. Chairman Standing Committee, Hon. 
Geo. C. Richardson; Clerk, J. Thomas Yose.- 
XV. WASHINGTON VILLAGE UNION CHAPEL, Dorchester a 
St. James Sallaway. 
See “ Benevolent Fraternity of Churches,” page 85. 
DISCIPLES. 
XV. SOUTH BOSTON CHURCH OF CHRIST, Howe’s Hall, d 
876 Broadway. 
EPISCOPAL. 
XXIV, ALL SAINTS CHURCH, Dorchester Av., near Lower Mills, a 
Dorchester. Geo. S. Bennett. 
VIII. CHAPEL OF THE EVANGELISTS, 286 Charles St. B. B. a 
Killikelly. 
The “Relief Committee” (1877) gives between $2OO and $3OO 
yearly in groceries and fnel to the Chapel poor; also, clothing. Over 
$5OO expended during the year ending April 1, 1880, and 70 families 
aided; the ladies of the Church volunteering to visit a few families each. 
Pres., Mrs. Robtf. M. Cushing; Sec’y and Treas., Mrs. J. S. Copley 
Greene. Apply to Miss C. Harmon, who visits each case, at Room 37, 
Charity Building, Chardon St., from 9 to 1, except Saturdays. “ The EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
101 
Ward. 
Children’s Sewing School ” meets at the Chapel from Nov. till May, on 
Saturday, 11 a. m. Average attendance, 100; teachers, 20. Sewing 
taught in classes, and each piece given to the child when she has finished 
it neatly and properly. ST. ANDREW’S GUILD has a free reading 
and amusement room, open day and evening, at Chapel. 
VI, CHRIST CHURCH, Salem St. Henry Burroughs. A 
Gives about $2OO yearly in clothing, food, etc., to about 25 families. 
The Sunday school teachers and others are visitors. 
X. CHURCH OF THE ADVENT, Bowdoin St. C. C Grafton. a 
Cares for its own poorer members, through the agency of District 
Visitors, and the Sisters of St. Margaret ( see Society for the Relief of 
the Sick Poor, page 33). Gives sewing through the Ladies’ Guild. 
XI. CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, Cortes St, George A 
J. Prescott. 
Gives about $350 yearly in work, clothing, coal and groceries, to 
about 25 families, who, upon careful investigation, seem to be absolute- 
ly needy. During the winter a “ Sewing School ”is held on Saturdays, 
from 10.30 to 12 a. m. A few women receive sewing in summer, and 
are paid by contributions for that purpose. The clothing made is given 
away, or sold to the poor for the cost of material. Permanent employ- 
ment is found when possible. A few widows and orphans receive pen- 
sions from Emmanuel Church through the Church of the Good Shep- 
herd, not included in above sum. Apply at the Rector’s residence, 49 
Chestnut St., between 1 and 2, or at the Church after any service. 
XVI. CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH, Florence St. Henry F. A 
Allen. J 
Gives about $l,OOO yearly to the Church poor and others. Clothing 
made and distributed. Apply to the Rector. 
XI. EMMANUEL CHURCH, Newbury St. Leighton Parks. A 
“Dorcas Committee of the Parish Association” (1865). 
Apply to Mrs C. O. Whitmore, Pres., at the Church on 
Fridays, Nov. to May, 10 A. m. to 1 p. m. 
Spends about $l,OOO yearly in sewing and clothing for poor women 
recommended by a member or the Rector. Any person who pays into 
the treasury $l2 is entitled to send a woman from any part of the city 
to receive work once a week through the season; $6 pays for work 
once a fortnight. Clothing is sold for the value of material. Sec’y, 
Mrs. E. G. Tucker; Treas., Miss H. B. Ridgway. 
XV. GRACE CHURCH, Dorchester St., Washington Village. A 
Gives money, food, fuel, clothing, and medicines to the poor. Means 
very limited. 
X. REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 12 Somerset St. c 
James M. Gray. 
XX. ST. ANNE’S CHAPEL, Cottage, near Dudley St. Percy d 
Browne. 102 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
Ward. 
XXL ST. JAMES CHURCH, St. James St. Percy Browne. D 
“ St. James Employment Society” furnishes poor women in Roxbury 
with work. Money given when required. Directress, Mrs. H. C. Has- 
brouck, 368 Dudley St.; Treas., Mrs. C. H. Bolles, 34 Clifford St. Ap- 
ply at Chapel, Wednesday, at 11. 
V. ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, Bow St., cor. Richmond, Charles- d 
town. Thos. R Lambert. 
XXIII. ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, Centre St., Jamaica Plain. Sumner v 
U. Shearman. 
11. ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, Paris, cor. Decatur, E. Boston. Wm. b 
H. Munroe. 
XIX. ST. JOHN’S CHURCH, 1262 Tremont St. Geo, S. Converse. A 
Gives food, fuel, and money to deserving poor of the Church; also, 
•to those living within the district, bounded by the Roxbury line, 
Jamaica Plain, Brookline, Longwood, and Washington St. In the 
winter the “ Employment Society ” gives out sewing, paying in food 
and fuel. Tries to find work for those who are able. Apply to the 
Pastor. 
XXV. ST. MARGARET’S CHURCH, Washington St., cor. Church, d 
Brighton. 
XVIII. ST. MARK’S CHURCH, W. Newton St. L. B. Baldwin. d 
XXIV. ST. MARY’S CHURCH, Bowdoin St., Dorchester. L. W. D 
Saltonstall. 
VI. ST. MARY’S CHURCH, Parmenter St. F. S. Harraden. d 
XIV. ST. MATTHEW’S CHURCH, 408 Broadway, South Boston. a 
John Wright. 
Gives about |5OO yearly to about 100 poor families. 
X. ST. PAUL’S CHURCH, 134 Tremont St. Wm. Wilberforce A 
Newton. 
“ St. Paul’s Guild ” (1877) gives food, fuel, and money, through an 
advisory board of ladies and visitors, to the needy and worthy poor; 
also, sewing, paid in money. “ Sewing School ” Saturday mornings, at 
the church. Spends about |5OO yearly, and aids from 60 to 80 families. 
Pres., Rev. Wm. W. Newton; Trcas., Wm. Appleton, M. D., 5 Walnut 
St.; Visitor, Mrs. Allen, 129 Charles St. Apply to the Sec’y, C. Henry 
Sampson, 8 Newbury St. 
XII. ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH, Tyler St., cor. Kneeland. F. d 
S. Harraden. 
XL TRINITY CHURCH, Huntington Ay., cor. Clarendon St. A 
Phillips Brooks and F. B. Allen. 
Two “EMPLOYMENT SOCIETIES” spend over 93,000 yearly, 
and give sewing to the Church poor, and about 100 others. Clothing EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
103 
Ward. 
given to charitable institutions, or sold. Visitor, Miss Harmon, Room 
37, Charity Building, Hawkins, cor. Chardon St. 
TWO LARGE SEWING SCHOOLS meet every week one for 
women, one for children. 
FRIENDS. 
X. FRIENDS’ MEETING AT WESLEYAN HALL, Brom- d 
field St. 
JEWISH. 
All Jewish churches are united in the “United Hebrew Benevolent 
Association,” see page 31. 
VI. BATH ABRAHAM, 193 Hanover St. a 
XIX. CONGREGATION HAR MORIAH, 72 Westminster St. A 
XT. CONGREGATION SHAARAY TEIFILA, Church, cor. Win- a 
Chester St. L. Crown. 
XII. MISHKAN ISRAEL, Ash St. S. Reinstein. A 
XI. OHABEI SHALOM, 76 Warrenton St. R. Lasker. A 
SHOMREY SHABOS, 9 Elm St. Isaac B. Reinherz. a 
XI. TEMPLE ADATH ISRAEL (German), 139 Pleasant St. a 
Solomon Schindler. 
LUTHERAN. 
All Lutheran churches are united in the “Association of the Evan- 
gelical Lutheran Church for Works of Mercy,” see page 55. 
XVI. EMMANUEL’S (Swedish), Emerald St. C. F. Johansson. a 
XVII. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN ZION CHURCH, Shawmut a 
Av., cor. Waltham St. C. J. Hermann Fick. 
VI. FIRST SCANDINAVIAN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN, a 
Parraenter St. 
11. IMMANUEL’S GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH, 77 A 
Chelsea St., E, B. 
XXII. TRINITY CHURCH (German), Parker St., near Tremont. a 
Adolf Biewend. 
METHODIST EPISCOPAL. 
Every Methodist church takes a monthly collection for its poor. 
XXV. ALLSTON M. E. CHURCH, Harvard Av., cor. Farrington a 
St., Allston. Wm. G. Leonard. 104 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
Wakd. 
XXIY. APPLETON CHURCH, Walnut St., near Neponset Ave., A 
Neponset. Edward W. Virgin. 
Cares for church poor through the Board of Stewards or the Ladies’ 
Society. 
XIY. BROADWAY CHURCH, Broadway, near F St., South Bos- A 
ton. John H. Twombly. 
XIY. CITY POINT MISSION, Emerson St., cor. L, South Boston. a 
Joseph S. Mansfield. 
XXIY. DORCHESTER CHURCH, Washington St., near Sanford, a 
Dorchester. PL D. Weston. 
Gives about $350 yearly, mostly in its own congregation, to about 
twelve families. 
XY. DORCHESTER ST. CHURCH, Dorchester St., cor. Silver, a 
South Boston. Nicholas T. Whitaker, 
XXIII. EGLESTON SQ M. E. CHURCH, Washington, cor. Bee- a 
thoven St. 
XIX. GERMAN M. E. CPIURCH, 777 Shawmut Av. F. W. a 
Flocken. 
X. GRACE CHURCH, Temple St, S. F. Upham. A 
XVI. HARRISON AVENUE CHURCH, 375 Harrison Av. a 
XXIV. HARRISON SQUARE M. E. CHURCH, Parkman St. L. a 
I). Bragg. 
XXI. HIGHLAND CHURCH, 160 Warren St. F. K. Stratton. a 
XXIII. JAMAICA PLAIN M. E. CHURCH, Elm, cor. Newbern St., c 
J. P. J. W. Bashford. 
11. MERIDIAN ST. M. E, CHURCH, Meridian St., cor. Havre, a 
E. Boston. Lewis B. Bates. 
Meridian St. Methodist Clothing Society (1855) clothes children and 
others for church. Occasionally gives groceries or fuel, or pays rent. 
Pres., Mrs. Wm. Seaver; Sec’y, Mrs. Arey. Apply to the Pres’t and 
the Board of Managers. 
XXIY. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Norfolk St„ Matta- a 
pan. 
Y, MONROE MEMORIAL CHURCH, Charlestown. A 
111. MONUMENT SQ. M. E CHURCH, Charlestown. James a 
O Knowles. 
XX. MT. PLEASANT CHURCH, Howard Av. Franklin Fur- a 
ber. EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
105 
Wakd. 
XI, PEOPLE’S CHURCH, Columbus Ay., cor. Berkeley, J. W. A 
Hamilton. 
Gives about $2OO yearly to about five families. 
IX. REVERE ST. M. E. CHURCH, 73 Revere St. T. B. Snow- a 
den. 
Gives about $3O yearly to members. 
XXIII. ROSLINDALE M. E. CHURCH, Ashland St., near Roslin- A' 
dale, West Roxbury. Joseph H Thompson. 
XIX. RUGGLES ST. CHURCH, Ruggles St., cor. Windsor. Wm. a 
H. Hatch. 
I. SARATOGA ST. M. E. CHURCH, Saratoga St., E. Boston. A 
Samuel L. Gracey. 
X. SECOND METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Bromfield a 
St. A. B. Kendig. 
Gives about $5OO yearly. 
SWEDISH MISSION. Otto Anderson. D 
XVIII. TREMONT ST. M. E CHURCH, Tremont St., cor. W. Con- a 
cord. Wm, E. Huntington. 
IV. TRINITY M. E. CHURCH, High St,, Charlestown. Horace A 
W. Bolton. 
XV. WASHINGTON VILLAGE CHURCH, Washington Vil- a 
lage 
XXI, WINTHROP ST. M, E. CHURCH, Winthrop St., Roxbury. a 
Andrew McKeown. 
METHODIST. 
IX. FIRST AFRICAN CHURCH, 68 Charles St. W. H. Hun- d 
ter. 
VI. MARINERS’ CHURCH, North Square. E, R. Watson. d 
VIII. ZION CHURCH, North Russell St. R, H. Dyson, b 
PRESBYTERIAN. 
XI. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN, Berkeley St., cor. Columbus Ay. d 
11. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN OF EAST BOSTON, Meridian a 
St. F. E. Marsten 
“ The Helping Hand Society ” clothes children for the Sunday 
school. 106 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
Ward. 
XI. FIRST REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN, Ferdinand St., cor. D 
Isabella, Wm. Graham. 
XI. FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN, Berkeley St., cor. x> 
Chandler. 
XIV. FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN, Fourth St., between G and H, D 
South Boston. W. H. Sybrandt. 
X. SECOND REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, New C 
Era Hall, 176 Tremont St, David McFall. 
XI. SHAWMUT STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 88 A 
Shawmut St. P. M. Macdonald. 
REFORMED. 
XI. GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH, 8 Shawmut St, Louis B. c 
Schwarz. 
ROMAN CATHOLIC. 
[The names marked Pres.* are the Presidents of the Conferences of the “ St. Vincent 
de Paul Society” connected with the respective parishes. See page 22.] 
XVII. CATHEDRAL OF THE HOLY CROSS, Washington St., A 
cor. of Malden. John B. Smith. Pres.,* N. M. Williams, 
1386 Washington St. 
XIV. CHURCH OF GATE OF HEAVEN, I, near Fourth St M. a 
F. Higgins. Pres.,* James Mahar, 9 Jay St. 
XVI. CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, 140 Shawmut Av. a 
(German.) Francis X. Nopper. 
“ St. Joseph’s Society ” gives from $5OO to $6OO yearly in cash, 
mostly to widows and orphans of the parish. “ St. Elizabeth’s So- 
ciety” gives from $l5O to $2OO yearly in clothing to the needy, mostly 
children. About 20 persons receive a monthly support. 
XVIII. CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, Har- a 
risen Ay., cor. E. Concord St. Jeremiah O’Connor. Fres.,* 
Henry McQuade, 26 E. Brookline St. 
11. CHURCH OF THE MOST HOLY REDEEMER, Maverick a 
St., East Boston. James Fitton. Pres.,* John Hartnett 
128 London St. 
I. CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART, Moore St,, cor. Ben- a 
nington, East Boston. L. P. McCarthy. Pres.,* Thomas 
F Doherty, 34 Saratoga St. 
XXII. OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP (Mission Church), a 
1545 Tremont St. Wm. Loewekamp. Pres.,* M, J. Dono- 
van, 7 Delle Av, EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
107 
Ward. 
11. OUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION, Sumner St„ East D 
Boston. Jos. H. Cassin. 
I. STAR OF THE SEA, Saratoga St. Pres.,* R. A. Baldwin, D 
Moore, near Saratoga St. 
XY. ST. AUGUSTINE, Dorchester St., near Eighth. Dennis A 
O’Callaghan. Pres.,* Patrick F. Burke, 4 Yinton St. 
XXV. ST. COLUMBKILLE, Arlington St., cor. Market, Brighton. d 
P. J. Rogers. 
IV. ST. FRANCIS DE SALES, Bunker Hill St., Charlestown, a 
M. J. Supple. Pres.,* John Conway, 327 Bunker Hill St. 
XIX. ST. FRANCIS DE SALES, 103 Yernon St. John Dela- A 
hanty. Pres.,* Thomas Riley, 15 Linden Park. 
XXIY. ST. GREGORY, Dorchester Ave., near Richmond St. W. H. D 
Fitzpatrick. 
XII. ST. JAMES, Harrison Ave., near Kneeland. Thos. H. Sha- A 
han. Pres.,* M. J, Purtell, 30 Ash St. 
AIL ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, No. Bennet St. (Portuguese.) d 
Henry B. M. Hughes. ° 
YHI. ST. JOSEPH’S, Chambers St. Wm. J. Daly. Pres.* John a 
B. O’Brien, 35 Poplar St. 
XXI. ST. JOSEPH’S OF ROXBURY, Circuit St. P. O’Beirne. a 
Pres,* Wm. Meagher, 125 Centre St. 
VI. ST. LEONARD’S OF PORT MAURICE, Prince St, (Italian.) d 
C. Boniface. 
YIT. ST. MARY’S, Endicott, cor. Thaoher St. Wm, H. Duncan. a 
Pres.,* Michael Carney, 172 Salem St. 
V. ST, MARY’S, Rutherford Ave., Charlestown. Wm, Byrne. a 
Pres.* John A, Finnegan, 48 Austin St. 
XX. ST. PATRICK’S, Dudley St., cor. Magazine. J. H. Gallagher. a 
Pres.,* Edward Ryan, 17 Forest St. 
XIII. ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL, Broadway, South Boston, a 
Wm. A. Blenkinsop. Pres.* Wm. Peard, 46 West Broad- 
way. 
XXIY. ST. PETER’S, Church St., Meeting-House Hill, Dorchester. i> 
Peter Ronan, 
YL ST. STEPHEN’S, Hanover St., cor. Clark. Michael Moran, a 
Pres.,* Martin Griffin, 6 New Prince St. 
XXIII. ST. THERESA, Spring St,, W. Roxbury. D 108 
EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
Ward. 
XXIII. ST. THOMAS, South St., cor. Jamaica, Jamaica Plain. A 
T. J Magennis Pres.,* John H. Cronin, Hyde Park Ave. 
XIII, ST VINCENT DE PAUL, E St., cor. Third. Wm. J. Cor- A 
coran. Pres ,* Edw. J. Roach, 114 W, Third St 
SECOND ADVENT. 
XVI. ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 87 Shawmut Ave. D 
V. ADVENT CHURCH, Union St., cor. Lawrence, Charlestown. d 
XX. BRANCH CHAPEL, 2029 Washington St. d 
XII. EVANGELICAL ADVENT CHURCH, Hudson St„ cor. d 
Kneeland. Cyrus Cunningham. 
XIV. SOUTH BOSTON CHURCH, Dorchester St., cor. National. d 
SWEDENBORGIAN. 
X. FIRST NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, Bowdoin St. James d 
Reed. 
XXL SECOND NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, St. James St., cor. a 
Regent. Abiel Silver. 
UNION. 
X. BEACON HILL CHURCH, 2 Beacon Hill Place. A part of d 
“ A Work of Faith,” page 86, 
X. BOSTON DEAF MUTE SOCIETY, Boylston Hall. See a 
page 43. 
X. CHURCH OF CHRIST, Wesleyan Hall, 36 Bromfield St. d 
Edmund Squire. 
XXIV. COTTAGE ST. CHURCH (1877), Athenamm Hall, Cottao-e 
St., Dorchester. F. D Sanford. 
Visits the poor In their homes, distributes clothing, etc. A nart of 
“ A Work of Faith,” page 86. 1 
XXI. GROVE HALL CHURCH, Warren St., cor, Blue Hill Ave. d 
Charles Cullis A part of “ A Work of Faith,” pa<re 86. 
VI. NORTH END MISSION CHURCH, 201 North St.° John a 
Currie. See page 23. 
VII. NORTH ST. UNION MISSION, 144 Hanover St. Philip A 
Davies. See page 45, 
VII. PORTLAND ST. CHAPEL, 90 Portland St. F. C. Hatch. a 
See Portland St. Mission, page 23. EDUCATIONAL AND RELIGIOUS—CHURCHES. 
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Waed. 
XXII. UNION FOR CHRISTIAN WORK, Heath St. Wm. Brad- A 
ley. See page 86. 
UNIVERSALIST. 
11. CENTRAL SQUARE UNIVERSALIST, Central Sq., E. A 
Boston. John G. Adams. 
XIII. CHURCH OF OUR FATHER, Broadway, S, Boston. John D 
J. Lewis. 
V. FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, Warren St, Charles- a 
town. C. F. Lee. 
The Deyens Benevolent Society (1819, incor. 1856). Apply to the 
Trustees. Gives temporaiy relief in clothing, fuel and money to the 
worthy poor of Charlestown, mostly Protestants of any sect. Trus- 
tees visit the poor and give fuel and money only to those thoroughly 
known. Clothing made by Sewing Circle. Annual expenditure, inter- 
est of $4,300. Annual membership, $l. Pres., Mrs. Jesse Stevens, 
12 Franklin St.; Secy, Mrs. Geo. W. Stevens, 12 Franklin St.; Treas., 
Mrs. Richard Williams, 190 Main St, 
XXI. FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, Guild Row, cor. Dud- a 
ley St. Adoniram J. Patterson. 
XXI. GROVE HALL UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, Blue Hill Aye., D 
cor. Schuyler St. F. A. Dillingham. 
IV. MURRAY CHAPEL, Bunker Hill St., opp. Walnut, Charles- d 
town. 
XI. SECOND UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, Columbus Aye., cor. a 
Clarendon. Alonzo A. Miner. 
Gives about $5OO yearly in clothing, fuel, food and money (for rent 
only) to the poor, through the ladies of the parish. Pres., Mrs. J. M. 
Lincoln; Sec’y, Mrs. M. A. Mayhew; Treas., Miss Ella A. Fairbanks! 
XI. SHAWMUT UNIVERSALIST, Shawmut Aye., below Brook- d 
line St. 
See FLOWER MISSIONS, page 46. 
XXIV. ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, Adams St., cor. d 
Gibson. J. Hatton Weeks. 
XXIII. UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, Centre St., near Greenough c 
Ave, Jamaica Plain. 
XXV. UNIVERSALIST CHURCH, Union Square, Brio-hton. B. i> 
F. Eaton. 110 
POLICE STATIONS—PARKS AND SQUARES 
POLICE COMMISSIONERS 
Police Commis- Henry Walker, Edward J. Jones, Thomas J. Gargan. Office, 
siouers. 7 Pemberton Sq., Ward X. 
POLICE STATIONS. 
Police Stations No. 1.—209 Hanover St.; Capt. John W. Chase, 
and Captains. “ 2.—21 Court Sq.; Capt. William A. Ham. 
“ 3.—Joy St.; Capt. Horace M. Ford. 
“ 4.—23 La Grange St.; Capt. James Quinn. 
“ 5.—East Dedham St.; Capt. Lyford W. Graves. 
“ 6.—Broadway, South Boston ; Capt. Paul J. Vinal. 
“ 7.—Meridian St., near Paris, East Boston; Capt. Romanzo H. 
Wilkins. 
“ B.—Commercial St., cor. Battery; Capt. James W. Twombly. 
“ 9.—Dudley St., cor. Mt. Pleasant Av.; Capt. Martin L. White. 
“ 10.—Tremont, cor. Pynchon St.; Capt. Hawley Folsom. 
“ 11.—Adams St., Field’s Cor.; Capt. H. C. Hemmenway. 
“ 12.—Fourth St., near K; Capt. Elijah H. Goodwin. 
“ 13.—Seaverns Av., Jamaica Plain; Capt. Alexander McDonald. 
“ 14.—Washington St., Brighton Centre; Capt. David W. Herrick. 
“ 15.—Harvard St., cor. City Square, Charlestown; Capt. Oliver 
Ayres. 
District (State) DISTRICT (STATE) POLICE, 35 Pemberton Sq. Apply 
Felice. Chief Inspector, Rufus R. Way. 
Complaints received of lack of safety in public buildings and factories, 
or of violation of any law relating to employment of women and minors 
in manufacturing establishments. 
PARKS AND SQUARES. 
I.—West End. 
Parks and 
Squares. Lowell Square, Ward VII., Cambridge, cor. Lynde St 
Boston Common, Ward X., bounded by Tremont, Boylston, Charles, 
Beacon and Park sts. 
The Public Garden, Ward X., bounded by Charles, Boylston, Arling- 
ton, and Beacon sts. 
Commonwealth Av. Park, Ward XI. 
ll.—South End. 
Union Park, Ward XVII., between Tremont St. and Shawmut Av. 
Blackstone Square, Ward XYIII., bounded by Washington, West 
Brookline, West Newton sts., and Shawmut Av. 
Chester Square, Ward XYIII., between Tremont St. and Shawmut Av. 
Franklin Square, Ward XYIII., bounded by Washington, James, East 
Brookline, and East Newton sts. 
Worcester Square, Ward XYIII., between Washington St. and Harri- 
son Av. PARKS AND SQUARES. 
lll.—South Boston. 
Independence Square, Ward XIV., bounded by Broadway, Second, M 
and N sts. 
Lincoln Square, Ward XIY., bounded by Emerson, Fourth and M sts. 
Thomas Park, Ward XIV., Telegraph Hill. 
IY.—East Boston. 
Putnam Square, Ward 1., at Putnam, White and Trenton sts. 
Belmont Square, Ward 11., bounded by Webster, Sumner, Larason and 
Seaver sts. 
Central Square, Ward 11., at Meridian and Border sts. 
Maverick Square, Ward 11., at Sumner and Maverick sts. 
Y.—Roxbury. 
Madison Square, Ward XIX., bounded by Sterling, Marble, Warwick 
and Westminster sts. 
Orchard Park, Ward XX., from 34 Orchard to 37 Adams St. 
Fountain Square, Ward XXI., Walnut Av., from Monroe to Town- 
send St. 
Old Fort Lot (Cochituate Stand Pipe), Ward XXI., between Beech- 
glen and Fort Avenues. 
Walnut Park, Ward XXI., from 3044 Washington St. to 355 
Walnut Av. 
Washington Park, Ward XXI., between Dale and Brainbridge sts., 
near Walnut Av. 
Bromley Park, Ward XXII., from Albert to Bickford St. 
Meeting-House Hill Square, Ward XXIV. 
Mount Bowdoin Square, Ward XXIY. 
Eaton Square, Ward XXIY., at Church and Bowdoin sts. 
YIL—Charlestown. 
Sullivan Square, Ward IV., bounded by Main, Cambridge, Sever and 
Gardner sts. 
City Square, Ward Y., at Bow, Main and Chelsea sts. 
Winthrop Square, Ward Y., bounded by Winthrop, Common and 
Adam sts. 
YllL—Brighton. 
Jackson Square, Ward XXV., at Chestnut Hill Av., Union and Win- 
ship sts. 
Chestnut Hill Reservoir, affords drives and walks. 
IX.—Longwood. 
Longwood Park, Ward XX., between Park and Austin sts. 112 
CEMETERIES. 
X.—West Roxbury, 
Jamaica Pond, Ward XXIII. 
CEMETERIES. 
City Proper. 
Cemeteries. King's Chapel Burying-Ground, Tremont St., Ward X. 
Old Granary Burying-Ground, Tremont St., Ward X. 
Central Burying-Ground, on the Common, Ward X. 
Copy's Hill Burying-Ground, between Charter and Hull sts., Ward VI. 
Charlestown. 
Old Burial-Ground, Phipps St,, Ward V. 
Catholic Burying-Ground, summit of Bunker Hill, Ward IV. 
East Boston. 
Israelitish Cemetery, cor. Byron and Homer sts., Ward I. 
Cemetery, cor. Swift and Bennington sts., Ward I. 
South Boston. 
St, Augustine Cemetery. 
Roxbury. 
Catholic Burying-Ground, Circuit St., Ward XXI. 
Roxbury Burying-Ground, cor. Washington and Dudley sts., Ward XXI. 
West Roxbury. 
Forest Hills Cemetery, entrances Morton, Canterbury and Walk Hill 
sts., Ward XXIII. 
Mount Hope Cemetery, entrances Walk Hill, Berry and Back sts., 
Ward XXIII. 
Gethsemane Cemetery, Brook Farm, Baker St., Ward XXIII. 
Mount Calvary Cemetery, adjoining Mount Hope, Ward XXIII. 
Mount Benedict Cemetery, close to Brookline and Newton lines, Ward 
XXIII. 
Dorchester. 
Cedar Grove Cemetery, entrances Granite, Milton and Adams sts 
Ward XXIV. 
Brighton. 
Evergreen Cemetery, near Chestnut Hill Reservoir, Ward XXV. MISCELLANEOUS. 
113 
NOTE. 
Useful information not properly included in any of the 
Classes. 
Lists of Good Boardinq-Houses at moderate prices are kept Boarding- 
ky . J v r Houses. Lists of. 
Boston University, 20 Beacon St.; 
Boston Young Men’s Christian Ass’n, cor. Tremont and 
Eliot sts.; 
Boston Young Men’s Christian Union, 18 Boylston St.; 
Cunard Steamship Office (emigrants), 99 State St. 
Holly Tree Inns. Established 1870 in Boston. One may be Holly-Tree inns 
found at 202 Cambridge St. The influence of these restaurants Kestaurants’ 
has proved to be a genuine assistance to people in the localities 
where, before 1870, only liquor could be bought at prices now 
paid for better things. 
Coffee-Boom, cor. Lewis and Commercial sts., Ward YI. Coffee. 
Good hot coffee, 2 cents a cup. A part of “ A Work of Faith,” 
page 86. 
NOTE. 
No information has been obtained conceniing the follow-No information 
jjjg. concerning. 
Appleton Temporary Home. 
Friendly Aid Association. 
Massachusetts Colonization Society. 
Massachusetts Friendly Aid Association. 
St. Jean Baptiste Society. 
Union Industrial Aid Society. 114 
SELECT LIST OF BOOKS AND PAPERS. 
SELECT LIST OF BOOKS AKD PAPERS 
OK CHARITABLE WORK. 
Books marked * are in the Boston Public Library. (If not found in the card cata- 
logue, inquire at the Pamphlet Room.) All others in the list have been recommended 
to the Library, and will probably soon be added. 
1. *Our common land, and other essays. By Miss Octayia Hill. Lon- 
don, 1877. 
2. *Le visiteur du pauyre. Paris, 1826. By Joseph Marie de Gerando, 
*The visitor of the poor. (Same as above.) Translated by Mrs. 
Horace Mann, with introduction by J. Tuckerman. Boston, 1832. 
(Out of print in English.) 
3. *Treatment of the poor, report of commission. Boston, 1878. 
4. *The elevation of the poor. By Joseph Tuckerman, with intro- 
duction by E. E. Hale, Boston, 1874. 
5. *Wisdom in charity. Paper read before the Philadelphia Social 
Science Association, by Charles G. Ames, Dec. 7, 1876. In “Penn. 
Monthly,” January, 1877. 
6. *Handy book for visitors of the poor in London. By Charles B. P. 
Bosanquet, M. A., secretary of Charity Organization Society. Lon- 
don, 1874. 
7. Manual for visitors to the poor. By John W. Kramer, M. D. New 
York, 1876 Pamphlet. 
8. Systematic visitation of the poor in their own homes, an indispensa- 
ble basis of an effective system of charity. By Sir Charles Trevel- 
yan. London, 1870. Pamphlet. 
9. *Suggestions to the charitable for systematic inquiry into the cases of 
applicants for relief. By C. J. Ribton-Turner. London, 1872. 
10. ““Thoughts and experiences of a charity organizationist. By J. N. 
Hornsby Wright. London, 1878. 
11. *Enion Belief Society, Germantown, Penn. Report, 1879. (See page 
9, Miss Kay’s report.) Pamphlet. 
12. Organization of charitable relief in Philadelphia. Report of the 
committee to prepare a plan, appointed at a meeting of citizens held 
March 1, 1878. Pamphlet. 
13. ““Organization of charity in Philadelphia. By Rev. D. O. Kellogg, in 
“ Penn. Monthly.” Sept., 1878. 
14. *The Philadelphia Charity Organization Society. Rev. Win. H. 
Hodge in “ Penn. Monthly,” March, 1880. 
15. Suggestions to ward visitors. By Mrs. Susan I. Lesley. Philadelphia, 
October, 1879. SELECT LIST OE BOOKS AND PAPERS. 
115 
16. Richmond county, N. Y. Semi-annual report of the Castleton com- 
mittee on out-door relief. By Mrs. C. R. Lowell. July, 1879. 
Pamphlet. 
17. Charitable organization and administration. By Rev. Henry C, Potter, 
D.D. Paper read before the church congress of the Episcopal 
Church. New York, Nov. 2, 1877. Pamphlet. 
18. *The importance of uniting individual and associated volunteer effort 
in behalf of the poor. By Miss Schuyler. State Charities Aid 
Association. New York, May, 1878. Pamphlet. 
19. Phases of charity. By Rev. S. Humphreys Gurteen. Buffalo, N. Y., 
1877, Pamphlet. 
20. Provident schemes. By Rev. S. Humphreys Gurteen. Published by 
the Charity Organization Society, Buffalo, N. Y., January, 1879. 
Pamphlet. 
21. What is charity organization? By Rev. S. H. Gurteen. Buffalo, N. 
Y., 1880. 
22. Guardians of the poor of St. Marylebone: report of Miss Octavia Hill; 
from third annual report of the local government board. London, 
1873, 1874. Pamphlet. 
23. The poor-law system of Elberfeld ; report by Andrew Doyle. Lon- 
don, 1871. Pamphlet. 
24. *The poor-law experiment at Elberfeld. By Rev. W. W. Edwards in 
“ Contemporary Review,” July, 1878. 
25. Homes of the London poor. By Octavia Hill. London and New 
York, 1875. 
26. *A hundred thousand homes. Descriptive of the small houses of 
Philadelphia, and the system by which poor people became their 
owners. By Charles Barnard, in “Scribner’s Magazine.” New 
York, February, 1876. 
27. *A building system for the great cities. By Hon, Lorin Blodget. 
“ Penn. Monthly,” Philadelphia, April, 1877. 
28. Improved dwellings for the laboring classes; the need and the way to 
meet it on strict commercial principles in New York, Brooklyn, 
and other cities. By Alfred T. White. New York, 1877, 1879. 
Pamphlets. 
29. Tenement-house system in New York. Facts and statistics prepared 
by a committee, H. E. Pellew, chairman. New York, February, 
1879. Pamphlet. 
30. 15 cent dinners for families of six. By Juliet Corson. New York, 
1877. 
31. ,*Letters and other writings of the late Edward Denison, M. P. for 
Newark ; edited by Sir Baldwyn Leighton, Bart. London, 1872. 
32. *Sisters of Charity. By Mrs. Jameson. London, 1859. 
33. *Charles Kingsley. Letters and memories of his life. By his wife. 
(Especially pp. 223-6 and 292-6.) 
34. *Life and work of Mary Carpenter. By Joseph Estlin Carpenter, M. 
A. London. 116 
SELECT LIST OF BOOKS AND PAPERS 
35. *Sister Dora: a biography. London, 1880. The life of Dorothy 
Wyndlow Pattison, sister of Mark Pattison, and member of the 
sisterhood of the Good Samaritans, an order of the Church of 
England. 
86. *Un a and her paupers : memorials of Agnes Elizabeth Jones, by her 
sister, Josephine M. Higinbotham. Introduction by Florence 
Nightingale. London, 1871. New York, 1872. 
87. A few words to the daughters of the middle classes on work and use- 
fulness. By Louisa Twining. London, 1864. Pamphlet. 
38. Essays on woman’s work. By Bessie Rayner Parkes London, 1866. 
39. The unemployed in great cities, with suggestions for the better organ- 
ization of laborers and the more effectual prevention of pauperism 
at industrial centres. By Alsager Hay Hill. London, 1877. 
Pamphlet. 
40. *Unremuuerative industry. In “Fraser’s Magazine,” November, 
1878. 
41. ““Relations of education and industry to crime and pauperism. Ad- 
dress by Henry W- Lord, secretary of the State Board of Charities, 
to the Michigan superintendents of the poor. Lansing, Michigan, 
1877. Pamphlet. 
42. *Pauperisra: its causes and remedies. By Plenry Fawcett, M. P. 
London, 1871. 
43. *London alms and London pauperism. “London Quarterly Review,” 
October, 1876. 
44. Pauperization, cause and cure. By Sir Baldwyn Leighton, Bart. 
Shrewsbury, 1871. Pamphlet. 
45. The parochial system and pauperism. By Dr. Thos. Chalmers. 
46. The civic economy of large, towns. By Dr. Thos. Chalmers, 
47. *The Jukes : a study in crime, pauperism, disease, and heredity. By 
R. L. Dngdale. With an introduction by Elisha Harris, M.D. New 
York, 1877. 
48. ““Dangerous classes of New York, and twenty years’ work among them. 
By Chas. Loring Bi-ace. New York, 1872. 
49. *Out-door relief and tramps. By Professor Francis Wayland. Paper 
read at the Conference of Charities, Saratoga, September, 1877. 
New Haven, Conn., 1877. Pamphlet. 
50. *The causes of pauperism. By Chas. S. Hoyt, M.D., secretary of the 
New York State Board of Charities. Extract from tenth annual 
report of the Board. Albany, 1877. Pamphlet. 
61. *Extracts from a report on pauperism. By Chas. S. Hoyt, M.D. With 
suggestions by Mrs. C. R. Lowell, Commissioner for the county of 
New York. January, 1878. Pamphlet. 
62. Report on Assembly Bill No. 79, January, 1877, to provide for the 
custody and reformatory treatment of vagrants; made to the New 
York State Board of Charities by Mrs, C. R. Lowell, September, 
1877. Pamphlet. SELECT LIST OF BOOKS AND PAPERS. 
117 
53. Report on vagrancy; submitted at a meeting of the New York State 
Board of Charities by Mrs. C. R. Lowell, December, 1877. Pamphlet. 
64. Workhouse girls: notes of an attempt to help them. By Margaret 
Elliott. London, 1875. Pamphlet. 
55. Female mission to the fallen ; annual reports Reformatory and Refuse 
Union, London. 
56. Work among the lost, by the author of Home thoughts for mothers. 
London. 
67. Day industrial feeding schools. Mary Carpenter. 
58. *The children of the State. The training of juvenile paupers. By 
Miss F. Davenport Hill. London, 1868. 
59. Hampden County Children’s Aid Association, Mrs. Clara F. Leonard, 
president; constitution, and report of progress. Springfield, Mass., 
1879. 
60. *Suggestions as to the proper guardianship of girls taken from indus- 
trial schools. By E. C. P. Boston, 1879. Pamphlet. 
The following reports and journals contain interesting papers : 
1. of London Charity Organization Society, and of its district 
committees. 
2. American Social Science Association, Proceedings of the Conferences 
of Charities, 1874, *1875, 1876, 1877, *lB7B, 1879. 
3. State Charities Aid Association of New York. Annual reports, 
4. *Mass. State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity. Annual reports. 
5. “ Charity Organization Reporter,” published weekly by the Charity 
Organization Society, London. 
6. “ The Monthly Register,” published by the Philadelphia Society for 
Organizing Charitable Relief and Repressing Mendicancy. 
PUBLICATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF BOSTON. 
Free, except No. 8 (price 10 cents). Nos. 3, 4, and 12 are out of print. 
L Constitution. December, 1879. 
2. * Rules and suggestions for visitors of the Associated Charities. 
December, 18/9. 
3. Reasons why visitors must not give alms, and their relations to reliev- 
ing agencies and to benevolent individuals. 1879. 
4. *The work-rooms in Ward VL Report for the summer of 1879 ; and 
a paper entitled “Can work-rooms be made to benefit without 
pauperizing ?” by Dr. J J. Putnam. 1879. 
5. Circular letter to sewing societies. 1879, 118 
SELECT LIST OF BOOKS AND PAPERS. 
6. *Address of Robert Treat Paine, Jr., President. 1879. 
7. Extracts from a sermon by Rev. J. L. Withrow. January, 
1880. 
8. *Essays by Octavia Hill. (Reprint from “Our Common Land.”) Feb- 
ruary, 1880. 
9. *The relation of private almsgivers to the Associated Charities. Feb- 
ruary, 1880. 
10. 
11. *Hints to a conference. February, 1880. 
12. “Not Alms, but a Friend.” (Reprint from the “Boston Sunday 
Herald.”) January, 1880. 
18. *Report from conference of Wards XYII. and XYIII. February, 
1880. 
{Visiting during the summer. "j 
Visiting families that become self-supporting. V April, 1880. 
Mutual benefit societies. J 
15. Practical hints. April, 1880, 
16. Cost of funerals. June, 1880. LEGAL SUGGESTIONS. 
119 
LEGAL SUGGESTIONS.(1 
[Questions in regard to the legal rights, duties and liabilities of those with whom 
visitors come in contact often arise, and the purpose of the following pages is to offer 
some general information as to those of the greatest importance and most frequent occur- 
rence. It must he remembered that this information cannot be always complete or pre- 
cise. The suggestions now made must be taken as a guide for action in emergencies 
only, and—when immediate action is not required—to fuller sources of information and 
advice, while care should be taken not to assume responsibilities or liabilities without 
application to such sources. G. S. H.] 
The first inquiry which naturally presents itself is : On whom has a per- 
son in need a legal right to call for aid, and who is under obligation to fur- 
nish or pay for it ? 
Liability op the Pauper or the Husband or Estate, 
A person who needs relief, and receives it from a town or city, is not 
liable to an action by the town or city to recover compensation, although 
he had property at the time when it was furnished. (1 Allen, 23 ; 3 Allen, 
515.) But a husband is liable for relief furnished to his wife (14 Mass., 
227; 5 Gray, 28; 6 Gray, 416; 6 Allen, 685; St. 1878, c. 199). And 
on the death of a pauper, then chargeable to any place in the State, the 
Overseers (2) thereof may take or recover possession of his property, and, 
if administration is not taken out in thirty days, sell and convey enough to 
pay expenses incurred for him. (G. S, c. 70, § 21.) 
(1) The following abbreviations in references are used : 
“G. S.” The General Statutes of Massachusetts of 1860. 
“ St.” The statute of the year and chapter named. 
“ c.” Chapter. “§ ” Section. 
“Mass.” Massachusetts Reports. 
“ Pick.” Pickering’s Massachusetts Reports. 
“ Allen.” Allen’s Massachusetts Reports. 
“ Gray.” Gray’s Massachusetts Reports. 
“P. M. R.” Manual of Statutes, etc., as to the Police, the number indicating the rule re 
ferred to. 
(2) In Boston out-door relief is administered by the (12) Overseers of the poor (p. 20) • in-door 
relief by the (12) Directors for public institutions (p. 12). The former are herein referred to as 
Overseers,” the latter as “Directors.” Por enactments, etc., in regard to the latter see St 
1857, c. 35; St. 1858, c. 112; City Ord. 1862, 1866, 1869, 1875. By out-Aoor and wi-door relief re- 
spectively, relief to persons supported in and out of public institutions is here meant. 120 
LEGAL SUGGESTIONS. 
Treasurers of savings banks are required to inform an Overseer, upon a 
written request, of the amount, if any, deposited in such banks to the credit 
of any person, named in such request, and at the time a charge as a pauper 
on the State, or on any city or town. (St. 1876, c. 203, § 25.) And the 
price fixed by law for tire board of lunatic paupers in a State hospital may 
be recovered by the treasurer of the Commonwealth, of the lunatics them- 
selves if of sufficient ability to pay the same, or of any person of kindred 
obligated by law to maintain them, or of the place of their settlement in the 
State, (St. 1870, c. 106.) As to reimbursement to secure a settlement, see 
p. 122. 
Kindked of the Pooe. 
By the law of this State the kindred of poor persons in the line or degree 
of father or grandfather, mother or grandmother, children or grandchildren, 
by consanguinity, living in this State, and of sufficient ability, are bound to 
support them in'proportion to their respective ability, and proceedings may 
be taken to enforce this duty before the Superior Court in the county where 
any of such kindred reside. (G. S., c. 70, §§ 4-11, 15, and page 122.) See 
supra, as to the liability of kindred for the board of lunatic paupers ; infra, 
page 134, as to their liability for burial expenses; and for provisions in re- 
gard to the maintenance of bastard children, see G. S,, c. 72; St. 1862, c. 
213; St. 1863, c. 127; St. 1865, c. 161; St. 1866, c. 292; St. 1871, c, 42; St. 
1875, c 15, c. 109; St. 1876, c, 227 ; St. 1878, c. 48. As to the support of 
the family or children of persons under guardianship, see G. S,, c. 109, §l9; 
St. 1880, c. 166. 
Duty of City, Etc., to Settled Pooh. 
Every city or town, through its overseers of the poor, is required to re- 
lieve and support poor persons lawfully settled therein, when in need, in a 
workhouse or almshouse, or as the city or town directs, or otherwise at the 
discretion of the Overseers (G. S., c. 70, §§ 1-3), and is held to pay any ex- 
penses necessarily incurred for the relief of a pauper therein by any person 
not liable by law for his support, after notice and request to the overseers 
thereof, and until provision is made by them (G. S , c. 70, § 16). 
City Hospital of Boston. 
The city of Boston is authorized to maintain a hospital for the reception 
of persons, who, by misfortune or poverty, may require relief during tem- 
porary sickness; and the city council have power to make such ordinances, 
rules and regulations, as they may deem expedient for the appointment of 
trustees and all other necessary officers, agents and servants, for its manage- 
ment. (St. 1858, c. 113 ; St. 1873, c. 192.) 
The council has provided for the election of a board of five trustees (now 
incorporated, St. 1880, c. 174), who are charged with the management of 
the hospital, and appoint a superintendent, physicians and surgeons, and 
other officers. They are allowed to admit, besides persons inquiring tem- LEGAL SUGGESTIONS. 
121 
porary relief during sickness, other persons, temporarily, when necessity 
requires; but such other persons are to be removed to "other appropriate 
public institutions as soon as their condition will permit; and the trustees 
may, for compensation, atford separate apartments and more accommoda- 
tions than those which are customai'y when no compensation is made. 
(City Ord., 1862, 1863, 1864, 1866, 1869, 1871.) In practice, citizens of 
Boston who have a settlement there, suffering from sickness, except acute 
syphilitic disease, or mania a potu, if unable to pay, are treated gratuitously 
in this hospital. Others must pay what they can. Incurables are not ad- 
mitted, unless with urgent symptoms capable of being relieved. Applica- 
tion should be made at the hospital (p. 35). 
Removal of Paupers. 
Provision is made by law for the removal of paupers to their places of 
settlement (G. S., c, 70, §§ 17-19; c. 71, §§ 36, 52, 53; St. 1868, c, 328; St. 
1869, c. 268), and the removal of minor children (St. 1868, c. 279 ; St 1870, 
c. 859 ; St 1871, c. 370). 
When a pauper, having a settlement in another place in this State, is 
willing to go there, application may be made to the Directors, who will 
provide for his removal. If unwilling, and in the receipt of relief, a vote of 
the Overseers is necessary to legalize his removal by force; but upon 
pi-oper legal proceedings, which should be taken under the direction of the 
legal counsel of the authorities, any person needing relief, not otherwise 
provided for, and not too ill for removal, can be removed by force to his 
place of settlement in the State; if he has no settlement here, to a State in- 
stitution ; or if he was not born in this State and has no settlement here, 
sent out of the State,—subject to the provisions of law in regard to separat- 
ing married persons (pp. 122, 123) and in regard to children (p. 131). 
Paupers who have received permits from Overseers to enter a State alms- 
house or hospital, and express a preference to be sent to any State or place 
where they have a legal settlement, or friends willing to support them, may 
be x-emoved thex*eto, if, in the opinion of the Agent of the State Boax-d of 
Health, Lunacy and Charity, liable to become a State chax-ge for a year. 
(St. 1860, c 83; St 1863, c. 240; St. 1879, c. 291.) And it is the practice 
for the State authorities to remove to other States and countries paupers be- 
longing to or brought froxxa them, not settled in this State, in certain 
cases. 
_ Whenever a case arises in which such removal seems desirable, applica- 
tion should be made to the Overseers, who will direct the applicant to the 
proper officer. 
Law of Settlement. 
The law of settlement cannot be conveniently stated in full here. Ques- 
tions as to the settlement of a person requiring aid should be referred to the 
Overseers. 
As a general rule, wives and children follow the settlement of their hus- 
bands and parents, if any. 122 
LEGAL SUGGESTIONS. 
Certain offices, residence, with property or payment of taxes, or military 
service, give a settlement (St. 1878, c. 190.) 
The most frequent mode of acquiring a settlement among those who need 
relief is residence by any person of the age of 21 in any place in the State 
for five years together, and payment of all taxes duly assessed on his poll 
or estate for three years during that time (§ 1, cl, 5), and for a woman of 
that age, not settled by marriage, residence in any such place for five years 
together, without receiving relief as a pauper. (§ 1, cl 1, 6, St, 1879, 
c. 242.) The receipt of relief as a pauper in any of those years prevents the 
acquisition of a settlement, unless, within five years alter the receipt of such 
relief, its cost is reimbursed to the city or town by which it is furnished. 
(St. 1879, e. 242.) 
Poor Settled in Other Towns. 
Persons falling into distress in any place, and in need of immediate relief, 
are to be provided for by the Overseers of that place until they are removed 
to the place of settlement, which is to be held liable therefor on proper pro- 
ceedings (G. S., c. 70, §§ 12-14), under certain limitations. 
Poor not Settled, or State Paupers. 
The Overseers of each place are to relieve poor persons therein, having 
no settlement in the State, until removed to a State almshouse (p. 48), for 
which their kindred, or the Commonwealth, are made liable within certain 
limits (G. S., c. 70, § 15) ; or the Overseers may, under certain limitations, 
give temporary aid, to be repaid by the State, if immediate notice is given 
to the State authorities, who continue the aid, direct the removal of, or re- 
move the pauper to some institution, or remove him out of the State. (St. 
1877, c. 183.) 
State paupers are, in general, to be supported in State almshouses or in- 
stitutions, under the management of the State Board of Health, Lunacy and 
Charity; the Trustees of the State Primary and Reform Schools, and the 
Boards of Trustees of the State Almshouse and Workhouse. (G. S., c. 71, 
§§ 32-57 ; St. 1879, c, 291; St. 1880, c. 208, pp. 13, 48, 63, 81.) Temporary 
aid is given to State paupers too ill for removal, under the direction of the 
proper officer, the superintendent of out-door poor (p. 14), who has charge 
also of the temporary aid to the out-door poor in general; of those ill from 
contagious diseases ; foundlings and destitute infants, and unsettled paupers 
of Indian descent; and also audits claims for the burial of out-door poor. 
The superintendent of the in-door poor (p. 14) looks after State paupers in 
institutions, wards of the State, alien passengers, and cases of bastardy, and 
attends the courts in cases of juvenile offenders. Visitors, however, 
in the city may apply to the Overseers, who will direct the necessary 
steps in regard to the cases which may be presented. The office and 
address of each of these State officers is at the State House. 
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settlement, he being a State pauper, both are to be supported by the place 
of her settlement. (G. S. c. 71, §§ 43, 44; St. 1866, c. 234.) 
Lunatic Paupers. 
Provision is made for the care of lunatic paupers at the various State 
hospitals at Worcester, Taunton, Northampton, and Danvers, and for the 
mode of commitment, etc. (G. S. c. 73, c. 74 ; St. 1862, c. 223; St. 1863, c. 
240, § 9; St 1864, c. 288; St. 1865, c. 268; St. 1867, c. 355; St. 1870 c 
105 ; St. 1871, c. 321; St. 1873, c. 276 ; St. 1874, c. 258, c. 293, § 16, c. 363 c 
392, §l6 ; St. 1879, c. 88, c. 132, c. 195, c. 222; St 1880, c. 250 (pp. 13, 44), 
and these institutions are under the general supervision of the State Board 
of Health Lunacy and Charity. (St. 1879, c. 291, § 4.) The Inspector of 
Ghaiities (office and address at the State House) has special charge of these 
(p. Lf), Boston has a lunatic hospital at South Boston,under the supervision 
ol the Directors, where persons having settlements in Boston, and some 
paying patients, areTeceived (p. 44). 
In addition to the Statutes above cited, reference may be had in regard 
to this hospital to St. 1839, c. 131; St. 1840, c. 79 ; St. 1851, c. 243 ; St 1857 
c. 281, c. 302. 
Course of Proceeding to Obtain Relief. 
The couise to be taken to obtain the benefit of these provisions of law, is 
to present the case in Boston, if temporary or out-door aid is desired, to the 
Overseers; if it is desired to place the poor jierson in a public institution, 
P^re.cto}’s- In either case, if questions arise as to the authorities, 
officer, institution or place which ought to take charge of him, the proper 
reference will be made. If a poor person is in actual and immediate need 
of relief, the Overseers will provide such aid as the law allows, without 
regard to the settlement or jurisdiction, and call upon the place of settle- 
ment or State officers to make due provision. 
Trust Funds in the Charge of a City, Etc. 
Funds left in trust for the poor to cities or towns, may be considered in 
some sense as a public provision. As to these, reference may be had to the 
Directory of Charities, passim. In Boston they are chiefly in charge of the 
Overseers (pp._2o, 21), and are administered by them at their discretion 
not as a provision to which persons in need have a legal right. See also, 
Relief Irrespective of Class (p. 17), and Relief for Special Classes (p, 24)! 
Soup. 
The City Council of Boston authorized to appropriate and expend a 
limited amount in any year, as it may determine, for temporary aid to the 
poor. (St. 1874, c 374.) It has been the practice under this act to pro- 
vide during the winter lor the distribution of soup by the police, to whom 124 
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application is made at the stations. They endeavor to limit the distribution 
to poor and destitute families who appear to be honest and deserving, with- 
out applying any rigid legal rule of settlement or permanent residence 
(p. 17). 
State Aid and Military Aid. 
Any city or town may raise money, and under the direction of its mayor 
and aldermen, or selectmen, may pay sums thereof to or expend them lor 
any worthy person having his settlement under the pauper laws in such 
city or town who served in the army or navy of the United States, and has 
the description and qualification of certain classes described at length in 
the act providing for this relief. (St. 1879, c. 252.) “ Military aid,” so 
called, is also given under another act to certain specified classes of pei’- 
sons, and of dependent relatives of persons who served during the late war. 
(St. 1879, c. 301.) To ascertain whether a person needing relief comes 
within the provisions of these acts, and to obtain the relief authorized, 
application should be made at No. 21, Charity Building, Chardon Street, 
Boston, where the necessary information and assistance will be given (p. 26). 
Pensions. 
The laws of the United States as to pensions cannot be conveniently 
stated here. In general, pensions are granted to_ persons who have con- 
tracted disabilities in military service, and in the line of duty, and to their 
widows, or, in certain cases, children, mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters 
dependent and in need. Information and assistance in regard to all claims 
of soldiers and sailors against the United States, including pensions, in 
behalf of residents in this State who have served in the army of the United 
States, and are credited to the quota of any State, or of residents elsewhere 
credited to the quota of this State, and the proper mode of prosecuting and 
enforcing such claims, will be given without charge, at the office of the 
Adjutant-General of this State, at the State House (p. 16), (St. 1879, c. 
117.) Application may also be made at the United States Pension Agency 
(p. 16). In Boston provision is made for granting pensions to members of 
the Police and Fire Departments, and in certain cases to their widows and 
children {infra, p. 128 ; St. 1880, c, 107). 
Vagabonds, Vagrants and Tramps. 
Rogues and vagabonds, idle and dissolute persons who go about beg- 
ging, Stubborn children, runaways, common drunkards, persons who neglect 
their calling or employment, misspend what they earn, and do not provide 
for themselves or for the support of their families, and all other idle and 
disorderly persons, including therein those persons who neglect all lawful 
business and habitually misspend their time by frequenting houses of ill- 
fame, gaming-houses or tippling-shops, may be committed to the House of 
Correction or Industry, or to the State or Town Workhouse, or fined ; and LEGAL SUGGESTIONS. 
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in such institutions be set to work, if able. And any person found in a 
street, highway, or other public place, in the night-time, committing any of 
these offences, may be apprehended by a sheriff, deputy-sheriff, constable, 
or watchman, or by any other person by the order of any magistrate, or 
either of such officers without a written warrant, and kept in custody for a 
limited time, and proceeded against. (G. S. c. 165, §§ 28-33.) So idle 
persons who, not having visible means of support, live without lawful em- 
ployment; persons wandering abroad and visiting tippling-houses or 
houses of ill-fame, or lodging in groceries, out-houses, market-places, sheds, 
barns, or in the open air, and hot giving a good account of themselves- 
wandering abroad and begging or going about from door to door, or 
placing themselves in the streets, highways, passages, or other public 
places, to beg or receive alms, shall be deemed vagrants, and, if convicted, 
committed to the House of Correction for the County (p. 13), or House of 
Industry (p. 61), or Workhouse where the conviction is had, or (St. 1869, c. 
258) on complaint of the Overseers, etc., to the State Workhouse. (See also 
St. 1866, c. 198; St, 1870, c. 288.) It is the duty of officers to arrest such 
vagrants, carry the same before a magistrate, and make complaint against 
them. Known pickpockets, thieves, burglars, having no visible or lawful 
means of support, found prowling around certain public places, are to be 
deemed vagabonds, taken into custody, and brought before a court or 
magistrate, and punished as pi-ovided. (St. 1866, c 235.) 
The Overseers, or keepers of almshouses under their direction, may 
require any person, not a resident of the place, applying to them for and 
receiving from them food and lodging, either in an almshouse or elsewhere, 
to perform a reasonable amount of labor in return, and may detain him until 
it is performed, but not after eleven in the morning of the day succeeding 
his application ; and if he refuses or neglects, when so required, to perform 
such labor suited to his age, strength and capacity, or wilfully damages 
any property of the place in charge of such Overseers or other officers, 
he shall be deemed a vagrant, and may be punished as provided by St.’ 
1869, c. 258, by imprisonment in the State Workhouse, or as otherwise pro- 
vided by law. (St. 1875, c. 70.) 
If it is desired to enforce these provisions of law, application should be 
made to the Overseers or Directors, or any police officer, for information 
and instruction as to the mode of procedure. 
Homeless wanderers in the streets of Boston are received in all proper 
cases, and provided with a bath, food and lodging; if men, at the “ Way- 
farers’ Lodge,” so called, on Hawkins Street (p. 22), where a task of labor 
is required in return; if women or children, at the City Temporary Home 
on Chardon Street (p. 21). 
Application may be made at any police station, and the case will be at 
once inquired into, and tickets given for admittance at the Lodge or Home, 
in proper cases. 
By a recent act (St. 1880, c. 255) to take effect May 1, 1880, “ tramps ” 
are to be imprisoned in the House of Correction, or in the State Workhouse 
at Bridgewater, tor not less than six months nor more than two years, sub- 126 
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jeet to the provisions of all existing laws establishing and regulating said 
institutions; 
All persons who rove about from place to place, begging, or living with- 
out labor or visible means of support, are to be held to be tramps ; and any 
act of begging or vagrancy by any person having no known residence 
within this Commonwealth, is to be prima facie evidence that the person 
committing the same is a tramp within the act; 
Any tramp who shall enter any dwelling-house or other building without 
the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall wilfully or maliciously 
threaten to injure or injure any person therein, or shall be found carrying 
any fire-arm or other dangerous weapon, or shall threaten to do any injury 
to any person, or to the real or personal estate of another, shall be punished 
by imprisonment in the House of Correction not less than one nor more 
than five years, or in the State Workhouse at Bridgewater not less than one 
nor more than three years; and municipal, district and police courts and 
trial justices shall have jurisdiction of all offences under the act; 
Any shei’iff, deputy-sheriff, constable, or police officer or member of the 
district police, upon view of any offence described in the act, or informa- 
tion thereof, may, without warrant, arrest the offender, and make complaint 
against him before any court or magistrate having jurisdiction of the offence ; 
Mayors of cities and selectmen of towns are empowered and required to 
appoint special police officers, whose duty it shall be to arrest and prose- 
cute all tramps in their respective cities and towns ; and it shall be the duty 
of the district police to make arrests and complaints for offences under the 
provisions of the act; 
The act is not to apply to any female or to any minor under the age of 
seventeen years, nor to any blind person, or to any one asking charity within 
the limits of his own city or town ; 
Any person sentenced to the State Woi'khouse who shall escape or 
attempt to escape therefrom, or from the custody of the officer while being 
conveyed to said workhouse, may be pursued and reclaimed; and upon 
conviction thereof shall be punished by confinement for not more than six 
months in addition to his previous sentence. 
Printed copies of the act are to be posted in conspicuous places; and 
whoever wilfully destroys, mutilates, etc., etc., these posted copies, is to be 
punished by imprisonment or fine. 
Police of Boston. 
The police of the city of Boston is governed by three commissioner s 
(St. 1878, c. 244), whose office is at No, 7 Pemberton Square (p. 110). 
The territory subject to its jurisdiction is divided into sixteen divisions, 
with a station-house in each, located as stated on p 110. Copies of the 
“ Manual containing the Statutes, Ordinances, and Rules and Regulations 
for the Government of the Police of the City of Boston,” may be obtained 
by any visitor at the commissioners’ office. 
Some of the provisions relating to the police are as follows: The com- LEGAL SUGGESTIONS. 
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missioners are empowered to license and regulate theatres and places of 
amusement, hawkers and pedlers, (*) intelligence offices, itinerant musi- 
cians, pawnbrokers and junk dealers, etc,, etc (St 1878, c. 244, S2: St, 
1880, c. 84.) ’ 
Police officers are required to be quiet and civil, and to answer questions 
with courtesy (P. M R. 151, 167) ; to furnish such information and aid 
to all persons as is consistent with their duty; to keep their numbers in 
sight, their badges and uniforms on in court or when on duty, unless by 
permission, and' give their names and numbers to all persons demanding 
them (P. M. R. 68, 90) ; not to refuse assistance near their routes in cases 
requiring immediate attention, but to return as soon as possible (P. M. R. 
65) ; to direct strangers, and cause them, when necessary, to be accom- 
panied by one of the police, not leaving his route; if they hear any cry 
for assistance, to render aid (P. M. R. 68, 69). 
The officer in charge at a station must call (he city or other physician 
for any woman unable, except from intoxication, to take care of herself, 
and, unless she is sent to her home or to the City Hospital without delay, 
call a female attendant. (P. M, R 168.) They are to cause straying or 
abandoned children to be taken to their residences, if known and on their 
routes; if not, to the station-house. Children or families without homes 
are to be directed or sent to the Charity Building on Ghardon Street. 
They are to note of all cases of contagious disease, or of sudden 
death when there is reasonable ground to suspect criminality; to render 
immediate aid in cases of accidental illness on the street, ascertaining and 
reporting to their captains all important particulars. (P. M. R. 70 161 
162.) _ v 
Captains are to report to the superintendent cases of contagious disease, 
and any negligence which may expose the city to fire, and all matters 
requiring the attention of the Board of Health or Superintendent of Streets. 
(P. M, R. 41.) Special provision is made in regard to the relief by them 
of United States seamen. (P. M. R 230.) They are to attend to eases of 
drowning (P. M, R 231, 76) ; to take note of liquor places, etc. (P. M. R, 
72) ; of matters on the street, lamps, dangerous places, buildings, nui- 
sances, etc, (P. M. R 73 ) 
When any person begs in the street, or goes from door to door soliciting 
alms, it shall be the duty of the officer to inquire the name and abode of 
such person, and to note the same for record; and to direct such person, if 
in distress, to the Charity Bureau in Chardon Street, or to any charitable 
association affording relief in similar cases. (P. M. R 77.) 
Policemen are not to interfere in civil cases, except to prevent a breach 
of the peace. (P. M R 87.) 
In certain cases, officers may arrest offenders without warrant (pp. 125,126) 
(P, M. R. 210, 216), including among others those intoxicated in a public 
place, or committing a breach ol the peace, or disturbing others by noise 
C 1) As to what hawkers and pedlers must be licensed, etc., see G. S. c. 50; St. 1862, c. 178- 
St. 128 
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in any place while intoxicated (St. 1876, c. 17) ; those found violating the 
laws as to cruelty to animals (St 1869, c. 344, § 4) ; or fast driving (St. 
1865, c. 81, § 2) ; persons intruding on vessels, or interfering with sailors, 
and landlords detaining the property of sailors, in certain cases. (P. M. R. 
211.) 
Records of places of amusement, pla'ces for the sale of liquors, hearings 
and complaints against them, of licenses to pawnbrokers, etc., lost chil- 
dren (P. M. R. 4, 46, 51, 186), of stolen, lost or recovered property, mur- 
ders, suicides and fatal accidents, suspicious places and persons (P. M. R. 
24, 46), are kept by the police. 
There is a fund for the relief of police officers, called the Police Relief 
Fund, and pensions are allowed to disabled officers, (St. 1878, c. 244; P. 
M. Ord. of 1878, §9 ) (P. 25.) 
Intelligence offices are under the supervision of an inspector (p. 18), and 
are limited to a fee of 60 cents for each female and $1 for each male appli- 
cant for a place, (P. M. R. 277, 285.) Pawnbrokers, etc., are under an 
inspector. (P. 13.) (P. M. R. 286, 294.) Placing criminals on probation, 
and the appointment of probation officers (see p. 61) are provided for by 
a recent act. (St. 1880, c. 129.) Also the binding out of female prisoners. 
(St. 1880, c. 151.) 
Sales of Liquor. 
Sales of spirituous and intoxicating liquors are regulated by law. (St. 
1876, c. 99.) No sales can be made except as provided by law, without 
license—none are to be made between 12 at night and 6 A. M., nor during 
Sunday, except by licensed innholders to guests (§ 6) ; nor to a person 
known to be a drunkard, to an intoxicated person or a minor (§ 6, 4th con- 
dition). And no sale or delivery is to be made to a minor for the use of 
his parent or any other person, or to a person known to have been intoxi- 
cated within the six months next preceding. (St. 1880, c. 239.) 
No liquors, except of good or standard quality, and free from adultera- 
tion, are allowed to be sold. 
If an intoxicated person commits an assault and battery, or injures prop- 
erty, the person furnishing any of the liquor which occasioned the intoxi- 
cation, in violation of the act, is liable as the person intoxicated would be 
< § 14). Sales to minors, and allowing them to loiter on the premises, are 
forbidden. 
The husband, wife, parent, child, guardian, or employer of a person 
in the habit of drinking to excess, may give notice in writing to any 
person not to sell or deliver liquor to the person having such habit, and 
recover damages not less than one nor over five hundred dollars for so 
doing, or allowing the person to loiter on the premises of the person noti- 
fied, within twelve months after the notice, provided that the employer 
giving such notice is injured in his person or property. (§ 16.) Persons 
injured by an intoxicated person, or through the intoxication of any person, 
have a right of action against any one who has, even in part, by selling or 
giving intoxicating liquors, caused such intoxication ; and any person own- LEGAL SUGGESTIONS. 
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ing, renting, leasing or permitting the occupation of premises, knowing that 
such liquors are to be sold therein, or who knowingly permits the sale 
therein of such liquors, is also liable as well as the party selling or giving 
the liquor except for lawful sales, etc ,on premises held under lease 
April 130, 1879, during its continuance. (St. 1879, c. 297.) But no lessor 
of real estate occupied for such sale is liable under this act if the occupant 
holds a license for the sale of such liquors. (St. 1880, c. 256.) 
Children. 
Minor (’) children may be adopted by proceedings in the Probate Court 
by any person of full age, whose wife or husband, if competent, joins in 
the petition therefor, with the written consent of the child, if over fourteen 
years of age; also of any lawful surviving parent, or of the one having 
the lawful custody of the child, if the parents are divorced or living sepa- 
rate, of the guardian, if any, or, if the child is illegitimate, of the mother 
only. (St. 1876, c 213.) The consent of any of these persons, other than 
the child, is not required in certain cases enumerated in the act (§ 4) ; and 
a giving up in writing of the child, for the purpose of adoption, to any 
charitable institution incorporated by law, operates as a consent to any 
adoption subsequently approved by such institution (§ 4). 
Every person having under his control a child between eight and twelve 
years, is required, under a penalty, annually to cause such child to attend 
some public day school in the city or town where he resides, at least 
twenty weeks; but if he is not able because of poverty so to do, or the 
child has attended a private day school approved by the school committee 
of the town, for that period, or is regularly attending a public or private 
day school so approved, known as a half-time school, or the child is other- 
wise furnished with the means of education for a like period, or has already 
acquired the branches of learning taught in the public schools, or his 
physical or mental condition is such as to render such attendance inex- 
pedient or impracticable, the penalty is not incurred; and no objection can 
be made by the committee to any school on account of the religious teach- 
ing therein. (St. 1873, c 279.) 
No person can be excluded from a public school on account of the race, 
color or religious opinions of the applicant or scholar (G. S. c. 41, § 9), and 
no child can be admitted who has not been vaccinated (lb. § 8). Parents 
or guardians must, under a penalty, cause their children and wards to be 
vaccinated before they attain the age of two years, and re-vaccinated when 
the selectmen or mayor and aldermen, after five years from the last vaccina- 
tion, require it. (G. S. c. 26, § 27.) 
No child under ten can be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical 
or mercantile establishment in this State, and any parent or guardian per- 
mitting it is liable to a penalty, (St 1876, c. 52, § 1.) No child under 
fourteen can be so employed, except in vacations, unless during the year 
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LEGAL SUGGESTIONS. 
next preceding such employment he has attended some public or private 
day school, under teachers approved by the school committee of the place 
where it is kept, at least twenty weeks, which may be in two terms of ten 
consecutive weeks each, so far as the arrangements of school terms allow; 
nor shall such employment continue unless the child so attends school in 
each year. No child can be so employed who does not present a certificate 
of its attendance, made by or under the direction of the school committee; 
but a regular attendance during the employment, in any half-time day 
school, or an attendance in any public or private day school as above, may 
be accepted by such school committee as a substitute. (16. § 2.) 
No minor under eighteen can be employed in laboring by any person, 
firm or corporation, in any manufacturing establishment (not used solely 
for a dwelling) in this State, more than ten hours a day, except for repairs 
necessary to prevent stoppage of the ordinary running of machinery; but 
a different apportionment of the time of labor may be made for the sole 
purpose of giving a shorter day’s work one day in the week, the hours 
of labor not to exceed sixty in any week (St. 1874, c. 221.) Manu- 
facturing, mechanical, and mercantile establishments must have cer- 
tificates of the age and birthplace of every minor child under sixteen 
employed therein, and of the amount of his school attendance during the 
year next preceding such employment, if under fourteen, by the school 
committee of the place of such attendance, or some one authorized by them; 
and after May 1, 1880, no child under fourteen can be employed in such 
establishment while the public schools in the city or town where he lives 
are in session, unless he can read and write. (St. 1878, c. 257 ; St. 1880, c. 
137 ) Printed notice of the hours required must be posted, and not exceeded, 
except as allowed. (St. 1880, c. 194.) For information and aid in regard 
to enforcing these provisions, application may be made to the Chief of the 
District Police, Pemberton Square. (P. 99.) (St. 1877, c. 214, §7 • St 
1880, c. 181.) 
Licenses are required for minors in certain occupations (newsboys, boot- 
blacks, etc.), (G, S. c. 50, § 14), and are given by the Board of Aldermen, 
on recommendation of the superintendent of licensed minors. 
Truant and stubborn children, etc., may be placed in an institution, etc. 
(G. S. c. 42 ; c. 165, § 28.) Destitute children may be sent to an almshouse, 
(G. S. c. 70, § 2.) Children under ten are not to be sent to a jail or house 
of correction, except for non-payment of fines, etc., and offenders under 
sixteen may be sent to houses of reformation. (St. 1865, c. 208.) As to 
the jurisdiction and sentences of those under seventeen, see St. 1880, c. 183. 
Cities and towns are to make provision concerning habitual truants and 
children between the ages of seven and fifteen, wandering about, etc., and 
to provide places for their confinement and instruction (St. 1862, c. 207 • 
1873, c. 262), from which they may be discharged (St. 1863, c. 44; 1865, c! 
208) ; also for neglected children under sixteen. (St. 1866, c. 283 ; St 1878 
c. 217 ; St. 1879, c 179.) (Pp 53, 54, 63, 64, 81.) Guardians, to have the’ 
custody of minors, may be appointed by Probate Courts on notice and 
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therefor (St. 1873, c. 367), or if one parent is unfit and the other files in 
Court his or her written consent thereto. (St. 1880, c. 66.) 
The Massachusetts Children’s Protective Society (p. 67) is authorized to 
make complaints under St. 1866, c. 283 (St. 1878, c. 217); and Probate 
Courts may appoint the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty 
to Children (p. 67) guardian of children under fourteen, without guardians, 
entirely abandoned, or treated with gross and habitual cruelty by their 
parents or others having the care and custody of the same (St. 1879, c. 
179, (') and for some other provisions as to the latter society, see this 
Statute). Overseers cannot remove minors who have no settlement in other 
States out of this State, or allow or cause such removal without authority 
of a judge of probate, or withhold information as to the maintenance of such 
minors from any person entitled to receive it. (St. 1868, c. 279.) 
Truant officers (p. 12, office 30 Pemberton Square) are appointed by the 
School Committee to see to the attendance of children in the schools. (St. 
1873, c. 262, c. 279; St. 1874, c. 233; St. 1878, c. 257.) One of these is 
superintendent of licensed minors. 
Charitable institutions receiving from public authorities infants less than 
four years of age are subject to the same laws as such authorities. Such 
institutions may procure suitable persons in this State to take, under a 
written agreement, until fourteen years of age, children lawfully in their 
custody who have been wilfully abandoned and deserted for more than four 
months by their parents or natural guardians—such children being subject 
to the same visitation and control as those put out or apprenticed from State 
institutions, and no lawful rights of parents, guardians and next of kin to 
be diminished by the act. (St. 1870, c. 92 ) As to the Massachusetts In- 
fant Asylum,see p. 55. By St 1880, c. 142, if that institution cannot receive 
infants committed thereto, the State Board of Health, etc., is to provide 
for them. 
Overseers in any city are required to place all pauper children in their 
chax-ge, over four years of age, in some respectable family in the State, ox- 
in some asylum therein, to be supported by the city there according to the 
laws relating to the support of the poor, until they can be otherwise cared 
for, if this can be done without irxordinate expense; to visit them ixx person 
or by agent at least once in three months, and make all needful inquiries as 
to their welfare; but the act does not apply to children xxot having legal 
settlements in the State, or who are idiotic or otherwise so defective, bodily 
or mexxtally, as to make their retexxtion in an almshoxxse desirable, or to 
those xxnder eight years of age whose mothers are inmates of the alms- 
house and suitable persons to aid in taking cafe of them. (St. 1879, c. 
103.) Children may be bound as apprentices by fathers, or, in some cases, 
by mothex's, guardians, overseers, etc. (G. S. c. 71, § 33; c. 75, § 15; c. 
76, §6 ; c. Ill; St. 1865, c. 270 ; St. 1869, c. 302 ; St. 1870, c, 369.) (2) 
0) By St. 1880, c. 231, the Hampden County Children’s Aid Society has like rights as to 
minors residing in that county, subject to the powers given to the State Board of Health, etc. 
(2) See St. 1880, c. 151, as to binding out female prisoners. 132 
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The employment or exhibition in public (with specified exceptions) of 
children underfifteen years of age as acrobats, contortionists, for feats of gym- 
nastics or equestrianism, dancing, playing on musical instruments, singing 
or rope-dancing, is forbidden (St 1874, c. 279; 1877, c. 172), with special 
restrictions on licensing exhibitions where public school children under 
fifteen are employed. (St. 1880, c. 88) As to the supervision by the 
Board of Health of “ baby farms,” or places for the care of very young 
children, see St. 1876, c. 168 (p. 133). As to State paupers, see supra, p. 
122. 
Pawnbrokers, Etc. 
Pawnbrokers and junk dealers must be licensed by the municipal author- 
ities (G. S. c. 88, §§ 25-30) ; in Boston, by the Police Commissioners. (St. 
1878, c. 244, §2 ; St. 1880, c. 84 ; P, M. Ord. 1878, § 10.) They must retain 
articles pawned, unless redeemed, on the premises occupied for their busi- 
ness, for at least four months from the date of deposit, if not perishable ; 
if perishable, for at least one month, and may then sell, if no payment ex- 
tender is made of the payment or duty due, at public auction; and no arti- 
cle worth more than twenty-five dollars shall be otherwise disposed of, 
even by agreement of the parties. The Board licensing them may fix the 
rates of interest, and no larger x-ate shall be taken. (St. 1879, c 102.) 
The premises used by a licensed pawnbroker may be entered by proper 
authority to ascertain the manner in which he conducts his business, and to 
examine the goods in pawn and all books and inventories relating to them. 
(St. 1877, c. 185; P. M. R. 188.) The inspector of pawnbrokex-s is an 
officer of the police. (P. M. Ord. 1878, § 1.) He and the captains of police 
are to see that the laws and ordinances in regard to them are observed 
(P. M. R. 96, 185.) 
Landlord and Tenant. 
All estates in land, including leases, created without writing, are at will 
only (G. S c 89, § 2), and maybe terminated by either party by three 
months’ notice in writing, or, if the rent is payable at shorter intervals, by 
notice, equal to the interval, to leave on a rent day [(G. S. c. 90, § 31) ; (2 
Gray, 224, 228, 335 ; 6 Allen, 221; 14 Allen, 46)] ; and in all cases of neg- 
lect or refusal to pay rent due on a lease in writing, or at will, fourteen 
days’ notice by the landlord, expiring at anytime fixed thereby, determines 
the lease or tenancy (G. S. c 90, §§ 30, 31; 2 Gray, 228), subject to the 
right of a tenant under a written lease to prevent the recovery of posses- 
sion by legal proceedings, based on such notice, by payment of rent, in- 
terest and costs by a certain time (G. S. c 137, § 3). 
A lease at will may also be determined by a deed or lease, under seal, of 
the premises to a third party. (5 Cush. 574; 10 Gray, 292.) After deter- 
mination by notice in writing as above, or after reasonable notice of such 
deed or lease to a third party, possession may be recovered by proceedings 
at law. (G. S. c. 137 ; 8 Cush 410 ; 10 Allen, 621 ; 10 Gray, 292 ) 
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(G. S, c. 187, § 1 ; 4 Allen, 318), and having thus obtained possession, he 
may keep it by force (6 Allen 77). If he obtains possession by force and 
illegally when he has a legal right to it, that possession is probably 
good, although he is liable for the wrong committed. 
The use of leased premises by the tenant for prostitution, lewdness, or 
illegal gaming, or the illegal keeping or sale of intoxicating liquors, avoids 
his lease and authorizes the landlord to enter without process of law, or to 
proceed under chapter 137 of the General Statutes. (G. S. c. 87, §§ 6-8.) 
Distress or seizure of property on leased premises for rent (except by 
attachment as for any debt) is not allowed by law in this State. (7 Pick. 
105.) 
Special provisions to promote health and safety are made by law in 
regard to tenement or lodging houses in Boston, which cannot be given in 
detail in the space here allowed. (St. 1871, c. 280.) 
The Manual or Digest of Statutes and Ordinances relating to the public 
health in Boston, hereinafter referred to, contains this act in full. 
Enactments in regard to the regulation, etc., of buildings in Boston, and 
dangerous or dilapidated buildings in general, may be found in St, 1871, e. 
280; St. 1872, c. 260, c. 371, c. 397 ; St. 1873, c. 298, c. 338 ; St. 1876, c. 69, 
c. 176; St. 1855, c. 469; G. S. c. 87,—adopted by city of Boston March 
17, 1860. 
Board of Health, Etc. 
The Board of Health is authorized to make regulations and orders 
respecting public health and the removal of nuisances, sources of filth or 
causes of disease; the cleansing or abandonment of unsuitable tenements, 
etc.; to grant permits for the removal of nuisances, infected articles or 
sick persons; to provide for the separation and care of infected persons or 
goods; the examination of travellers suspected of infection, and the pre- 
vention of contagion. Provisions are made to secure, through the city 
department for the survey and inspection of buildings, and the Board of 
Health, the proper construction of tenements and lodging-houses, suitable 
ventilation, chimneys, open spaces, water supply, fire-escapes, closets, 
privies and cesspools, drainage and cleanliness, and to regulate and limit, 
under the direction of the Board, the use of underground rooms for dwell- 
ing purposes; and interments of the dead are under their charge. (G. S. 
c. 26, c 28; St. 1870, c. 306; St. 1871, c. 280; St. 1872, c. 189 ; St. 1873, c. 
2, c. 4; City Ord. on Public Health, 1872 and 1873.) Provisions are to be 
inspected (St. 1872, c. 231; St. 1876, c. 180), and adulterations and sale of 
diseased, etc , provisions forbidden. (G. S. c. 166 ; St. 1866, c. 253 ) Vac- 
cination and re-vaccination may be enforced, and quarantines established. 
(G. S. c, 26.) Inhabitants of Boston can be vaccinated, etc., free of charge, 
by the city physician—(City Ord. 1872, 1873), (p. 69). 
Householders and physicians must give notice of inmates or patients 
infected with small-pox and other diseases dangerous to public health. 
(G. S. c. 26.) Persons engaging in the business of taking nursing-infants, 
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Health, which may inspect the premises, and enforce sanitary measures in 
regard to the children and premises. (St, 1876, c. 158.) In regard to 
expenses by such Boards for infected persons, etc., see G. S. c, 26, §§ 23, 
49; St. 1874, c. 121. 
In regard to all these subjects, it is advisable that application should be 
made directly to the Board of Health (p 13), whose officers will investi- 
gate the matter and give more detailed information. 
Copies of a Digest of the Statutes and Ordinances relating to the Public 
Health, may be obtained at the office of the Board, No. 32 Pemberton 
Square. (J) 
Burial of Poor Persons. 
Statutory provisions are made in regard to the burial of paupers settled 
in other places, and strangers, of persons found dead, and of all persons 
without settlements, having died without means of support. (G. S. c. 70, 
§§ 12, 15; St. 1878, c. 256.) And, in practice, the Overseers bury, at the 
expense of the city, out-door poor having settlements here. 
The expenses of the burial in one place of persons settled in another, 
may be recovered of the latter (G. S, c. 70, § 12; St. 1862, c. 223, § 16) ; 
those of the burial of unknown persons, found dead, persons having no 
lawful settlements in the State, persons without settlement, having died 
without means of support, although they have not applied for relief”while 
living, may be recovered of kindred chargeable with their support; and if 
not so paid, a certain sum is allowed by the Commonwealth. (G. S. c. 70, 
§ 15; St. 1878, c 256; subject to St. 1877, c. 200, § 17.) If dead bodies 
are found, notice should be given to the police (P. M. R. 202), or to the 
medical examiner of the district (St. 1877, c. 200, § 8; St. 1880, c. 59, p. 
13), who is to cause dead bodies of strangers, to which he is called, to be 
buried (§ 17). On his certificate that the deceased person was a stranger, 
having no settlement in this State, the Commonwealth pays his fees and°the 
expenses of burial. In other cases the city or town where the body is 
found pays those of the burial; the county, all others. (St. 1877, c. 200, 
§ 17.) 
Provision is also made as to dissections, and the burial of persons djdno- 
in a poorhouse, workhouse or house of industry. (G. S. c. 27, c. leif, 
§§ 37, 38.) G. s. H. 
(i) The examination of this Digest, and of the above suggestions, may call the attention of 
visitors to cases in which a moderate expenditure of money for the removal of poor persons 
from tenements unfit, from sanitary reasons, for occupation, may he a judicious charity, not 
calculated to pauperize them. HEALTH-HINTS. 
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Ventilation. 
Since the common cause of sickness and depressed health among the 
poor undoubtedly is the impurity of the air in which they live, the first 
thing to be taught them is how to improve the ventilation of their houses 
and apartments. But they must likewise be taught why a constant supply 
of pure air is necessary. They should be told that the vital principle of air 
is its oxygen; that this oxygen is taken into the blood by the breath, and 
that another gas, carbonic acid, which is poison, is given back in exchange. 
In a few moments the oxygen of a small room becomes used up, and unless 
fresh air be admitted, the atmosphere grows more and more impure, and the 
inmates rebreathe air which has already been used. Its effect is very de- 
pressing to the system. It is a common, a very common cause of con- 
sumption, as well as of typhoid fever, diphtheria and diarrhoea. It causes 
headache, loss of appetite, and general lack of bodily vigor, and is especially 
dangerous to young children and invalids. Moreover, unrenewed air con- 
tains particles from the lungs and body, animal vapors, dust, etc. If a 
family be obliged to live in a room where cooking is done, so much the 
more need for a supply of pure air. 
Poverty often includes a lack of the proper fuel. As a consequence, in 
winter, every means is employed to prevent the ingress of cold air. In 
such cases, to insist upon open windows would be unavailing; but where 
there is a reasonable amount of warmth, too great stress cannot be laid 
upon the necessity of fresh air. The imperfect carpentry of many houses 
allows the constant entrance of air; but it so often happens that numbers 
of individuals occupy the same room, that this means of supply is quite 
insufficient. 
To estimate the amount of air in a room is an easy matter. Every in- 
dividual should have at least 1,800 cubic feet of fresh air per hour. To 
ascertain how much air a given room contains, multiply its three dimensions 
together. A room ten feet wide by twelve feet long, and eight feet high, 
contains 960 cubic feet. For every person in this room, then, the air should 
be renewed nearly every half-hour. In cold weather, however, it must be 
remembered that air should not be admitted so freely as to create a current, 
and hence a draught. The air of an apartment should have simply a gentle 
motion, otherwise ventilation would be unsafe 
The air-tight stove, economical as it may be in the use of fuel, unless 
carefully managed, is no addition to the health of a family; for, if over- 
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allow the stove to become red-hot, to keep the door open or a cover off 
whenever possible, and never to close tire damper in the smoke-pipe. Since, 
in order to gain its supply of oxygen, it needs a certain amount of air, the 
stove does its little part toward keeping the atmosphere of a room in mo- 
tion, If a furnace be used, the air supplied to it should not be that of the 
cellar, but should come from out-of-doors. 
How Provide a Supply of Fresh Air ? The only means of ventilating 
the rooms of the poor is by the windows, which they keep carefully closed 
during the winter. At other seasons open doors and windows will do the 
work efficiently. In order to ventilate properly by the window, it should 
be opened neither at top nor bottom, because, in either case, the cold air 
which enters falls directly to the floor, and thus creates a draught. The 
safe and convenient method is to raise the lower sash, place beneath it, on 
edge, a strip of thin board three to six inches in width, and as long as the 
sash is wide. Now shut the sash upon the board. The window°is thus 
closed at top and bottom, but remains open at its middle where the sashes 
meet. Here the air spouts in fountain-wise toward the ceiling, whence it 
falls and slowly mingles with the air of the room, thereby creating a gentle 
movement. This method costs nearly nothing. If now there be, near the 
ceiling, a ventilator, or a small hole, in an independent flue of the chimney 
(a single brick may be knocked out for the purpose), the foul, warm air 
will escape, and the room becomes fit for human beings. An open fire- 
place, or grate, of course, is an excellent ventilator. The only other sug- 
gestion is, that there be boards of different widths, so that on days and 
nights of extreme cold a narrow one may be used. 
Sleej)ing Booms.— Ventilation of these rooms at night should be insisted 
upon. Using the window-boards, the sashes, in very cold weather, may be 
separated only an inch or two. The warmth of the persons in the room 
will compensate for the small amount of cold which enters, and both health 
and sleep will be better for the purification of the air. 
When bed-clothing is insufficient, it would be difficult to prevail upon the 
poor to open their windows never so little. But by leaving doors ajar, 
warmth from the lower portion of the house will modify the temperature 
of the chamber. It should be said, that the common belief that night air is 
unhealthful, so far as our climate is concerned, is a mere fallacy In any 
case, every chamber should be thoroughly aired, if possible sunned, during 
the day. 
Sick Rooms.— In all cases of sickness, notably consumption, diphtheria, 
typhoid and scarlet fevers, the amount of fresh air required is nearly double 
that which suffices in health. For, in addition to the normal impurities, 
both the breath and body of the patient give off matters which are deleteri- 
ous to health. The bed being located out of the reach of draughts, a 
gentle stream of fresh air should constantly flow into the room. A sheet 
may be so hung as to protect the patient from direct contact with the cooler 
air. In all fevers the temperature of the chamber should be kept at a moder- 
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every clay, the windows should be thrown wide open for a few moments, 
and the air allowed to sweep out the room. Meanwhile a blanket should 
be hung over the head-board of the bed, and brought down so as to cover 
the patient’s head and face. This must remain until the windows are 
closed Further directions will be found under the mention of individual 
diseases. 
The House, Cleanliness and Clothing. 
Great care should be devoted to keeping the house perfectly clean, not only 
in places which are seen, but in every direction from cellar to garret. Every 
floor should be thoroughly washed at least once per week. Particular at- 
tention should be given to the cellar. No refuse of any sort should be allowed 
to accumulate here. Standing water and decaying vegetables in this place, 
are notorious breeders of disease. The cellar should be whitewashed every 
spring. Fresh air, and, where possible, sunlight, should be admitted every 
day. This will do much to obviate dampness. If, in spite of this care, the 
cellar remains damp, the drainage of the house needs attention, 
Every waste-pipe and ivater-closet should be kept absolutely free of all 
impediments to an abundant flow of water. An occasional flushing of the 
sink with hot water will be beneficial, and a strong current should be 
allowed to purify the water-closet every day. A handful of chloride of 
lime, especially in summer, should now and then be thrown into the basin 
of the latter. A strong solution of copperas will answer as well. If there 
be a privy it should be abolished, at any rate emptied often, and frequently 
supplied with dry ashes and carbolic acid. 
Drainage will require honest and thorough care. If ill smells penetrate 
the house, and cannot be overcame by cleanliness, the owner of the building 
should be requested to remove the difficulty. If he neglect or refuse to do 
this, the case should at once be reported to the Board of Health. 
The Living Boom. If possible this room should be located upon the 
sunny side of the house. The floor should be painted, and where carpets 
can be afforded, strips of bright hue maybe laid down here and there. 
Whenever the room is cleansed they should be hung out of doors. To car- 
pet the whole room would be a needless expense, and only increase the 
impurity of the air, the carpet serving as a reservoir for dust and unhealth- 
ful odors. 
In winter the temperature should not be higher than 68° Fahr., nor lower 
than 60°. A hot, dry air being very prejudicial to health, an evaporating 
dish of water should be kept on the stove, or upon the mantel, and at least 
one of the window-boards should be constantly used. 
Sleeping Booms should be kept thoroughly clean, and slops of all kinds 
removed every morning. Mattresses, especially where there are more than 
one, should be aired every day. Standing washbowls in chambers are in 
direct communication with the sewer, and are bad in any house, whether of 
rich or poor. Their plugs should be inserted at night and the bowl half 
tilled with water The overflow holes at the top may be stopped with putty. 
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Backyards must not be made places of deposit for refuse matter, but 
should be kept absolutely clean. No slops of any kind should be thrown 
upon the ground about the house, but emptied into water-closet or sewer 
opening. It would be well if the gutter before each house were kept clear 
by the inmates. The city invariably neglects the poorer streets. 
Sunlight. Children and invalids should have sunny rooms’, or at least be 
carried into the sunlight during the day. Sunshine is a tonic, a purifier, a 
medicine, to both mind and body. If the living room be in the shade, but 
communicates with a sunny room, by opening the door during the middle 
of the day the air of the shady room will be healthfully modified. 
Damp Garments. In those cases in which the poor have only one or two 
rooms, washed garments and other articles are often dried in the living 
room. This habit is a prolific cause of colds, neuralgia and rheumatism, 
and is seriously injurious to children. When it can not be avoided, but 
few pieces should be dried at one time, so that the air may not be made 
too damp for health. 
Personal Cleanliness, Excellent care of the house would be almost futile 
if its inhabitants neglected the care of their bodies, Bathing and strict 
cleanliness of the person should be earnestly encouraged. Otherwise, skin 
troubles, disturbance of bodily functions and a lowering of the general tone 
of the health will, in many cases, be the result. 
Clothing. During the cold months, flannel garments next the body are 
indispensable, The heavy red flannel is the best, and in the end the 
cheapest, material for this purpose, The woven goods of certain qualities 
are sold at low rates; the poor, therefore, are tempted to purchase them. 
But the home-made garments of flannel will far outwear them. Working 
men should wear flannel the year round, a thinner texture being devoted to 
summer use. It is a protection against chills and lung and throat alfections. 
Even when moistened by perspiration it will allow a person to go from 
warm to cold air with reasonable safety. Many females do not wear entire 
suits of flannel, even in winter. This is an error, and costs health and 
vigor. Too stringent call upon the heat-producing forces is very weaken- 
ing to the system. The true way is, to prevent the loss of bodily warmth, 
and this can be accomplished only by a sufficiency of clothing, which does 
not make heat, but simply preserves it. Linen and cotton garments next 
the body allow a rapid radiation of heat. Wool is the proper material for 
underwear. Among the poor, many children lose their lives because their 
bodies are not kept sufficiently warm. Contrary to the popular opinion, 
children make heat less rapidly and lose it more rapidly than do adults. 
Children which are habitually cold either die or are cei’tain to become 
stunted in growth. Their parents should be taught not only to protect 
them against sudden changes of temperature, but to see that they are prop- 
erly clad. Every child which wears short clothes should also, in winter, 
wear next the body a full suit of flannel. HEALTH-HINTS. 
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The Care oe Infants. 
One-half of all children born die before they reach the age of five years. 
The majority of these perish at a tender age, either from neglect, or 
because of the ignorance of their parents. Infants, even of the very poor, 
may thrive, if only they be kept regularly and properly fed, washed and 
warmed. The main reason of their death and illness is probably the igno- 
rance of their mothers as to how and when to feed them. 
Nursing. Infants, whose mothers are able to nurse them, are far safer 
and more likely to reach maturity than the children which are fed. The 
difficulties and questions as to proper food in their case are settled by 
nature. Their troubles arise principally from irregularity in nursing. It is 
made the panacea for all the complaints and the restlessness of the child, and 
thus too often becomes their cause. If all has gone well, nursing ordinarily 
may begin between the third and twelfth hour after birth. Otherwise, the 
physician’s advice will be necessary. Meanwhile the child may have 
an occasional teaspoonful of warm water sweetened with white sugar. 
During the first few weeks of life the child should be nursed every 
two hours in the day, every three or four hours at night. The intervals 
should then be gradually lengthened until they reach three or four hours 
during the day and six hours in the night. Perfect regularity will give 
child and mother equable sleep at night, for custom will cause the child to 
wake only at the proper time. Whereas, irregular nursing, while it pleases 
the child, will disturb its digestion, fret, weary and make a slave of the 
mother, and give her no opportunity in which to recruit her patience and 
strength. System should be insisted upon. But, whether the child be 
reared at the mother’s breast, or by artificial feeding, it should be kept 
strictly to the food first chosen, until the seventh or eighth month, when 
the teeth begin to appear. Prepared foods of farinaceous order, arrow- 
root, farina, oatmeal, and the numberless other articles of the shops, are all 
premature for infants. Until they are several months old, their stomachs 
lack the proper elements for the digestion of starchy food It may be said, 
however, that some physicians recommend these foods, with the belief that 
they assist in the digestion of milk. But, in any case* they should be used 
only upon medical responsibility. Milk being the only food intended by 
nature for infants, it alone should be used until the teeth appear, when the 
diet may be modified. The quantity of milk required at each meal cannot be 
precisely stated, but varies from four to perhaps twelve or sixteen table- 
spoonfuls. Cases differ, one child being more vigorous, and, therefore, 
requiring more food than another. The child itself will sometimes decide 
the quantity. The effect upon its general health is a reasonably safe guide. 
Suppose the mother cannot nurse her child. In that case, perhaps a kind 
neighbor, who has a large supply of milk, will be glad to nurse the infant 
during the day. At night it must have cow’s milk. This method is often 
very successful, A wet nurse, of course, is out of the question. If nursing be 
impossible, the only other food is cow’s milk. At first, and for a few weeks, 
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tinue this dilution of the milk, as is recommended by some physicians, is 
unnecessary, experience having shown that children thrive as well, if not 
better, on a richer milk diet, Moreover, the poor so seldom have milk 
which has not already been diluted (or at least skimmed), that further 
addition of water is an injustice to the child. If cow’s milk disturb the 
child’s stomach, a teaspoonful or two of lime-water may be mixed with 
the milk. This causes coagulation of the latter in finer particles, and renders 
it more easy of digestion. If a child do not thrive on ordinary cow’s 
milk, condensed milk should be substituted. The best canned article in 
our market is the Eagle brand, manufactured by Borden & Co , the original 
patentees, Better still is the condensed milk which is freshly made, and 
which will be left at the door on order. The former contains sugar. The 
latter does not. In the end, Borden’s milk is the more economical. It 
should be kept in a cool, dry place. The proportion to be used may be one 
teaspoon tul of milk in ten to sixteen teaspoonfuls boiled water, accordino- 
to the age of the child. It will often be found that this milk will agree 
perfectly with a child when all else fails. 
Bow Feed Artificially ? It is best to begin at once with the bottle. But 
all rubber tubes should be discarded. The only safe method is to use, upon 
the mouth of the bottle, a nipple of pure, black rubber. Tubes are certain 
to become foul. White rubber contains poisonous elements, and in feeding 
children should never be used in any form. The bottle should be held to 
the mouth ot the child until enough milk has been taken. Only such quan- 
tity ot milk should be put into the flask as is to be drunk at once. The 
bottle should then be emptied and thoroughly washed. Sour bottles and 
sour milk are a common cause of diarrhoea and vomiting. A safer plan is 
to have two bottles, so that one may be filled with water and allowed to 
stand for some hours 
Weaning. Healthy children should be weaned between the ninth and 
twelfth month, by which time nature has supplied them with teeth, and 
therefore suggests a more solid diet, The change, however, must be grad- 
ual. The first teeth appearing about the seventh or eighth month, a small 
quantity of supplementary food, as gruel or beef tea, may be added daily, 
the usual nourishment being slowly lessened This will accustom the child 
to the transition. Among the poor there exists the custom of nursing chil- 
dren lor two years or more. This is contrary to nature, and a wrong to 
both mother and_ child. For a few months after weaning, the food should 
principally consist of semi-fluid substances, the digestive organs of the 
child being still weak. Oatmeal gruel, beef tea, sweet, stale bread 
crumbed and boiled in milk, a well-baked potato, old bread soaked in the 
juice of meat, etc., occasionally a little scraped apple, the juice of a bit of 
sweet orange, are all useful. 
As the child grows older, and more teeth appear, the diet may include a 
little fish, small bits of meat, especially mutton and chicken. Tea and 
coffee, wine and beer, should be absolutely forbidden. Milk should be the 
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necessity of giving very young children a teaspoonful or two of cold water 
every few hours. This is a need they cannot make known and one often 
forgotten. 
Clothing and Cleanliness. But little need be said on these topics. Cool 
heads and warm feet are a vital requisite, and as children advance in years 
the ignorant fallacy, which supposes they may be hardened by exposing 
the limbs by short dresses and the arms by short sleeves, should be severely 
condemned. It costs many lives. Until it is two years of age every child 
should wear a flannel bandage. So soon as short clothes are adopted, it may 
be repeated, that in winter whole suits of flannel should also be worn. No 
child should be allowed to wear damp and soiled clothing and napkins. 
Daily Bathing increases vigor. Cleanliness, always important, is so 
necessary to the child that, if neglected, the functions of the skin become 
disturbed, and constitutional ailments quickly follow. The baths of infants 
should at first be nearly blood warm—9o° to 95° of the Fahrenheit ther- 
mometer. The child may be laid in the bath, the head be supported by one 
hand of the mother, while her other hand bathes its When the teeth 
appear the temperature of the bath may be beneficially reduced to 85° or 
82°. Upon taking the child from the tub, it should be thoroughly dried, 
and then rubbed into a gentle glow with the bare hand. The more 
cleanly the child, the better will be its physical possibilities. 
Hot Bath in Group and Convulsions. It may properly be said here that 
the hot bath is extremely efficacious in case of an attack of croup or con- 
vulsions, Send for the doctor at once, but meanwhile use the bath. In 
convulsions, while the child is in the bath, the head should be kept cold by 
wet compresses. 
Fresh Air and Plenty of Sunlight are almost as needful to children as an 
abundance of food. After the fourth week, infants may be taken out of 
doors in all seasons, except on days of extreme cold, or when there is 
a high wind. They should, of course, be thoroughly and carefully pro- 
tected. During cold weather they should not remain long in the open air, 
but after a short stay, be taken home, warmed, and sent out again. Ca- 
tarrhal affections are far less liable to occur in winter, if children go much 
into the open air, than if kept in-doors. The latter practice weakens and 
makes them sensitive. 
Sleep. The outrageous habit among the poor of giving soothing syrups 
to sleepless children is, and should be pronounced, criminal. Two drops 
of laudanum have been known to kill an infant child. In one case a few 
drops of paregoric caused the death of a child of nine months. If a child 
pei'sist in crying, its clothing should be examined; it may be uncomfort- 
able. The point of a pin or a tightly-drawn string may be the cause. The 
child may have been overfed, or have taken improper food. After the fifth 
month, the gums should not be forgotten. Premature teeth may be giving 
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an excellent narcotic. Better still, in many cases, is a strip of cotton cloth, 
tour inches wide, well wrung-out in luke-warm water, then bound about 
the chest and carefully covered with a wider bandage of flannel. This 
treatment usually has an almost magical effect in quieting the child, Reo-u- 
--larity of sleep_ should be encouraged. Wakeful children will generally 
tall asleep if given a few mouthfuls of food. Wakefulness is often simply 
a symptom of hunger. Some parents cover the heads and faces of infants 
while they sleep, -Ihis is an nnhealthful practice, for a child thus covered 
not only becomes overheated, but breathes air which is simply poisonous. 
Beds of children should be reasonably soft. An economical and efficient 
manner of keeping a young child warm is to put it into a bag made from 
a light blanket or of heavy flannel. The bag should be drawn together 
under the armpits and pinned to the night-dress. 
Much of the foregoing will apply to older children. They should be 
kept cleanly; their meals and sleep should be regular. Sunlight, exercise 
and fresh air are their imperative daily need. Wet feet should receive atten- 
No child should be allowed to go to bed with cold feet, A nio-Jitly 
rubbing of the whole body is a great benefit to any child, of whatever°ao-e. 
If this ground be covered, many of the sicknesses which decimate the 
children of the poor will be kept at bay. 
Care of Children in Summer. 
_ The chief causes of death among pool’ children in hot weather are of a 
diarrhoeal nature, and arise either from improper or badly-cooked food 
overmuch fruit, or fruit of poor quality; or from uncleanliness of their 
persons and the foul character of the atmosphere of the overcrowded houses 
in which they live _ It is a sad mistake to think that the children of the 
poor are less sensitive during the tender age than children of the wealthy. 
The very best remedies are of the preventive sort. The ounce of prevention 
may be absolutely effectual, while the pound of cure perhaps will prove 
useless. r 
Summer diseases among children are so deadly that overcare of these 
sensitive beings is almost an impossibility. Watchfulness of the dress the 
sleep, the temperature of the body, and especial attention to its food are a 
sine qua non at this season, If the skin be kept cool, if the sleep be regular 
and plentiful, the clothing be adapted to the season, above all, if the&food 
be simple, well-cooked (a vital necessity), and eaten at the proper time, and 
finally, if the children be kept in an airy, shady spot during the hotter hours’ 
of the day, much sickness will be avoided, If a child exhibit a tendency 
to diarrhoea, a moderately loose bandage of light flannel should be 
constantly wr about the abdomen. The important preventive direc- 
tions may be briefly stated: bathe the child daily in tepid water observe 
perfect cleanliness in dress, let the child sleep by itself, give it abun- 
dance of fresh air in the cool of morning and evening houx-s, make use of every 
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poor children. Take the child to South Boston Point between four and 
six o’clock p. m. on hot days. Make frequent use of this fine sea-opening. 
Take the child to Dorchester Heights. Use an open horse-car on these ex- 
cursions. Spend Sunday afternoons with the child or children at one of 
these places. Keep the child out of rooms in which cooking or washing is 
being done. Excessive heat is fatal to children. When it is heated, give 
the child ice water in small quantities, and bathe the head and hands. Keep 
the house perfectly sweet and clean. If possible, do all cooking out of 
doors. Remove all foul odors by disposing of the cause. Never wean a 
child in Summer. If it be nursing, never give it anything, save cold water, 
but breast milk. If an older child be thriving on bread and milk, do not 
change its food. If old enough to eat meat, let it be given only at dinner, 
and then be free from fat. For breakfast, nothing but bread and milk. 
Children over two years of age may eat freely of ripe strawberries and 
peaches. Other fruits should be forbidden until blackberries come into 
market. They ai'e safe. Give no sweets, no cake, no pastry. If milk disa- 
gree with the child, add three teaspoonfuls of lime water to each bottle or 
glass of milk. If pure milk be unobtainable, use Borden’s condensed milk, 
or 4hat freshly made. If the discharges begin to assume a greenish color, 
give a pinch of “ prepared chalk ” three times daily, in a spoonful of milk. If 
the child complain of pain, give a small rectal injection of water as warm as 
can be borne, preceded by a few mouthfuls of hot milk. If diarrhoea come 
on, boil every ounce of milk taken by the child, and apply to the abdomen 
a bandage of cotton cloth, well wrung out in cool water. Cover this with 
a layer of cotton batting' and bind both about the child by means of a 
bandage of flannel. Wet the cotton bandage so soon as it becomes dry, 
and keep up the application day and night. Give the child cracked ice 
freely, and keep it absolutely still. Give no medical remedies. It may, 
however, be taken out of doors to a shady place, and, when weather per- 
mits, be kept in the open air all day. If chalk, ice and the moist bandage 
do not check the diarrhoea, a physician should be called. If the attack be 
severe, this should be done early. In these cases, a change of air is nearly 
always beneficial. 
If vomiting suddenly appear, put the child into a hot bath for a few mo- 
ments, then dry and cover it with blankets. If the hands and feet be cold, 
cover them with bags of hot oats. The bags may be made of any odd 
pieces of cotton cloth Heat the oats in a pan in the stove oven. Hot oats 
may also be applied to the abdomen. The usual manner of applying heat 
to the body, by means of cloths dipped in hot water, is inconvenient, and 
the cloths soon become cold. The hot oats retain their heat for a long time. 
A few drops of brandy may be given to the child. If diarrhoea have been 
caused by improper or too much food, give half a teaspoonful of the spiced 
syrup of rhubarb. But it would be better to leave this matter to the physi- 
cian. Do not allow children to go to bed in a heated condition. See that 
they are as cool as sponging with cool water will make them. A cold, wet 
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Care oe the Sick. 
Undoubtedly one cause of the large death rate among the poor is the lack 
of proper care when they are sick. Good nursing wins half the battle 
against disease. The patient should be kept in a fresh, cleanly condition. The 
face, arms and chest should often be lightly and quickly sponged, but without 
exposure. Sponge one part at a time, under the bed-clothing, and dry it 
before proceeding to another. A few drops of cool lemon juice may occa- 
sionally be dropped upon the tongue. The hair should be kept smooth ; 
likewise the bed-clothing. The room should be kept sweet and clean, and 
abundantly well-aired. Soiled dishes, towels, etc., should be taken away, 
as well as slops of all kinds. Particular care should be given to removing 
fecal discharges at once. In some affections, they serve to convey the dis- 
ease to well persons. The causes of bad odors should be removed, and, air 
being one of the best of disinfectants, the room should be frequently and 
thoroughly aired, as directed under the subject of ventilation. During 
serious periods of illness, visitors, even relatives, should be strictly excluded. 
In convalescence, the patient must not be allowed to become wearied by 
friends. Body clothing should be changed at least twice per week, if cir- 
cumstances admit. The diet should be simple, but nourishing. In nearly 
all cases, beef tea, milk, milk punch, oyster broth (not the oysters), and 
various meat juices are admissible. The stereotyped toast and tea are 
worse than useless. Regularity in feeding is of great importance. In no 
case should the patient be allowed to sleep through the night without eating. 
Patients exhausted by disease generally die at early morning. This may 
often be prevented by giving beef tea or milk punch every three hours dur- 
ing the night This is a vital matter. 
Cases of simple, evanescent fever may be managed by lightly sponging 
the body during the night and day, by giving freely of cracked ice, and by 
keeping the bowels moderately free. 
So-called “ colds,” which are really simple fevers, may frequently be 
broken up by throwing a light blanket over the head of the patient, and in- 
troducing under the blanket the spout of a boiling tea-kettle. The patient 
inhales the vapor: this, together with the heat, creates profuse perspiration 
of the head, generally relieves the sensation of fulness, and prepares the 
way for a general perspiration of the body. This may be brought about by 
the use of a hot foot-bath, containing a teaspooful of red pepper, After 
which, the patient should be wrapped in a blanket, confining the arms to 
the side, and then be covered in bed with twice the usual quantity of cloth- 
ing. At the end of two or three hours, the body-blanket may be removed, 
the body wiped with a moist sponge, and the bed clothing be reduced to 
nearly the ordinary quantity. The dry-pack, as this is called, should be 
preceded by a glass of ice water or hot lemonade. The perspiration may 
frequently be hastened, or assured, by applying a wet cloth about the chest, 
and covering with a dry bandage as already described. Very delicate people 
xand some children cannot well bear a profuse perspiration. 
Scarlet-Fever Cases require especial care, First of all, the patient 
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which is isolated from the inhabited portions of the house. Only the 
doctor and nurse, or the one person who cares for the child, should be 
admitted. If practicable, all other children should be sent away from the 
house until the patient fully recovers; that is, until the skin is renewed. 
The sick-room should be kept moderately warm, and thoroughly aired. 
When the scaling process begins, the germs of scarlet-fever may easily 
be inhaled. Hence the necessity for the very greatest purity of the 
atmosphere. After the fever has declared itself, not one of the well chil- 
dren in the family or house should be allowed to go to school, until per- 
mitted by the attending physician, and this should not be until at least four 
weeks from the beginning of the fever have elapsed. This, besides, is a 
law of Boston. Scarlet-Fever, Scarlatina, Canker-Rash and Rash Fever, 
being names of one and the same dangerous disease, the same rules should 
apply to all of them. All flowing curtains, carpets, etc , should be removed 
from the sick-room. Visitors of adult age should not be admitted to the 
house without warning. The admission of children should be absolutely 
forbidden, Scarlet-Fever is as contagious as Small-Pox, and much more 
dangerous than is popularly believed. When unchecked it is a terrible 
scourge among young children, and the only way to stamp it out is by 
following these rules with the utmost strictness. There are parents who 
not only allow their well children to go to school while scarlet-fever is in 
the house, but conceal the sickness from neighbors, and forbid any mention 
of it. There are physicians who connive at this deceit, or give the disease 
a false name. This is more than wrong: it is criminal. To expose the 
children of an entire school to the possibility of contracting scarlet-fever, 
because parents are unwilling to be troubled with the care of the well chil- 
dren, cannot be too strongly reprehended. 
The following sensible advice is issued by the Boston Board of Health ; 
“ On recovery, the sick person should not mingle with others until all roughness of the 
skin due to the disease shall have disappeared; a month is considered an average period 
during which isolation is needed. All clothing and bedding worn or used by the 
patient or the nurse should be cleansed by boiling for at least one hour; or, if that can- 
not be done, by free and prolonged exposure to out-door air and sunlight. The walls of 
the rooms should be dry-rubbed, and the cloths used for the purpose should be burned 
without previous shaking.” Better still, the room should be repapered. “ The ceiling 
should be scraped and whitened. The floor should be washed with soap and water, and 
carbolic acid may be added to the water (one pint to three or four gallons). The 
infected clothing should be cleansed by itself, and not sent to a laundry. 
“ In case of death from Scarlet-Fever, the funeral services should be strictly private, 
and the corpse should not be exposed to view.” 
Diphtheria. The same rules apply to tills dangerous affection, It is con- 
tagious, and the patient should be quarantined. On recovery, or after 
death, the same process of cleansing, purifying and disinfection of clothing, 
matresses and room, should be thoroughly applied. Funerals should be 
private, and the body should never be exposed. 
So-called “ disinfectants,” as a rule, do nothing more than destroy or con- 
ceal odors. The best disinfectants for inhabited rooms are cleanliness and 
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contagious diseases, may be disinfected by the fumes of burning sulphur. 
“ It should be broken in small pieces, burned over a vessej of water, or 
sand, and in various parts of a large room at the same time' It is better, 
during the process, that the room should be warm. It should be tightly 
closed for six hours, then aired. Most articles of clothing may be disin- 
fected in this way, if hung loosely in the fumigated chamber. Mattresses, 
however, should be exposed to a heat of 240° F. Each one thousand cubic 
feet of space requires the fumes of eighteen ounces of sulphur.” (State 
Board of Health.) 
In regard to the origin of both Scarlet-Fever and Diphtheria it may be 
said, quoting the words of Dr. E M Snow of Providence, “ that impure air 
is one of the factors necessary for the propagation of either of the two 
diseases; and that there is far less danger of either scarlatina or diphtheria 
in those houses in which the premises, and especially the sleeping-rooms of 
the children, are free from the impure air arising from sink-drains, cess- 
pools and privy-vaults. This fact ought to furnish a guide for immediate 
and efficient action on the part of parents and others.” 
Typhoid-Fever, Dysentery and Cholera, In these diseases the important 
and absolutely necessary duty is to remove fecal discharges on the instant. 
Moreover, a large bottle of a solution of carbolic acid in water, in the 
strength of one-eighth acid, should be at hand. Of this a half tea-cupful 
should at once be poured over the dejection, or into the vessel just before it 
is used. These discharges are dangerous from their liability to spread the 
disease. 
Small-Pox. In case of small-pox the authorities should immediately be 
notified, and the patient at once removed from the house. Vaccination 
should be performed on every well child so soon as it reaches the age of 
four weeks. If sickly, the operation may be deferred to a later period, but 
the first safe opportunity must be seized. Vaccination being the only 
protection against small-pox, no other argument will be needed to prevail 
upon parents to have it done In the case of their refusal, the Board of 
Health should be notified without delay. It is a criminal offence. The 
former practice of using human virus for vaccination, has properly fallen 
into disuse. The only suitable virus is that taken from a healthy cow, It may 
be found at the house of Messrs. Codman & Shurtleflf, opposite the Museum, 
on Tremont Street; at the Medical Library, 19 Boylston Street; and at the 
Massachusetts General Hospital. While the temporary effects of cow 
virus are sometimes more severe than those of virus from another child, 
they are more certain, and confer a more enduring protection. But this is 
not enough. Be-vaccination should be.repeated every seven to ten years. 
Within that period of time, the protection derived from former operations 
is used up, and requires renewal. Moreover, no matter how recently a 
child, or grown person even, may have been vaccinated, if exposed to an 
epidemic, or if there be an epidemic in the city, the operation should again 
be performed. The city physician, Charity Building, Chardon Street, vac- 
cinates the poor free of charge. COST OF FUNERALS. 
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COST OF FUNERALS. 
The State pays by law to Overseers of Poor, for burial of every adult 
State pauper, $10; and for children, $5. 
In the City burial, a wagon calls, with the plainest coffin (painted, the 
head part cotton lined, fastened with plain screws) and takes the body to 
Mount Hope, where it is placed in a numbered grave with one or two others. 
The undertaker notifies the family of the probable time of arrival at the 
grave. In summer, by a connecting coach at the railway station, access 
can be easily had to the cemetery. In winter, a half-mile walk must be 
taken. As half-price is paid for infants, their bodies must accumulate until 
a talp can be made with three or four. It is vexy seldom that any one asks 
to be at the burial of a pauper. If friends go with a hack, the City sends a 
hearse; otherwise, a wagon. To city poor, the Overseers of the Poor allow 
$lO in special cases. 
When funeral expenses are paid by the family or friends, the cost need 
not exceed,— 
Coffin such as is supplied by the City, . 
FOR A CHILD. 
. $2 00 
FOR AN ADULT. 
$3 00 
Grave at Mount Hope, .... 
. 3 00 
6 00 
Hearse, 
. 
6 00 
Hack, 
. 5 00 
5 00 
$10 00 
$19 00 
These are prices at which families can supply themselves, and they allow 
little or no profit to an undertaker. Nevertheless, Messrs. Lewis Jones & 
Son, No, 60 La Grange Street, will undertake funerals at these prices. 
For other coffins, a higher pi'ice must be paid. One of white wood, stained, 
polished, and neatly lined, costs, for a child, from $1 to f 6 ; for an adult, $B. 
No deed is given with grave at Mount Hope, and no stone can be placed 
on it; but it is numbered, and the body can be removed at any time by the 
family, and no other body can be placed in it. A grave in Cedar Grove 
(with a deed) costs $l2. It may be re-opened for $5. A grave at Holy 
Cross, in Malden, or in Calvary (near Mount Hope), with title, costs $lO. 148 
RULES AND SUGGESTIONS. 
RULES AND SUGGESTIONS 
FOE, 
YISITOES OF THE ASSOCIATED CHARITIES. 
INTRODUCTION. 
You promise to give no money, or its equivalent, to the families you 
visit,— 
(1.) Because the many relief-giving societies of Boston employ agents and 
visitors in each district, who relieve the deserving poor, 
(2.) And because the object which you have in view as a visitor to the 
poor, is to use time, strength, and your best endeavor to raise them to self- 
dependence and thrift. 
You aim to graduate them from the rolls of relief, and also prevent their 
children from falling into need. 
If they cannot live without alms, either because too old, ill, or feeble, or 
from any other good cause, you encourage them to feel that to one person 
they can turn for counsel as from a friend, without being supposed to ask 
relief,— and thus preserve their self-respect. 
SIX RULES. 
I. —As visitors of this Society, you must give no money, or its equivalent, 
unless in cases of absolute and immediate suffering,— except on consulta- 
tion with your Conference. 
11. —Report at stated times, either in writing or person, to your District 
Conference. 
111. —Do not use your position for any purposes of proselytism. 
IY.—Always approach a family in every call, and especially in your first 
visit, with delicacy, tact, respect, and sympathy. 
Y.—Do not disclose, either to the poor themselves, or to any person not 
charitably interested in the case, the source of information given you through 
this Society; and the information itself, when unfavorable, should be used 
with great discretion. 
Do not show your visitor’s blank, nor take notes in the homes of the 
poor. 
YI,—Do not announce yourself as a visitor of any charitable organization, 
but as a friend or neighbor anxious to know those among whom you live; 
or, if possible, as one bringing work, or desiring to aid them to find work, RULES AND SUGGESTIONS. 
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SUGGESTIONS. 
Study the family and the causes of their need. Insist on temperance, in- 
dustry, thrift, and neatness. Encourage progress. Aid them to make their 
homes more tasteful and attractive. The gift of a growing plant, or a 
colored print for their walls, or the loan of a book, may raise their standard 
of life in a simple and wholesome way. To the sick or aged, some little 
comfort will not be amiss. 
Learn what are the family’s means of support, and from what charities 
they receive relief. Make boys or girls, over fourteen years old, work; and 
if possible in a trade where skill is well paid. Let them come to your house 
occasionally to report progress. Interest their employer. 
Teach in season and out of season, that if a man will resolve to be in- 
dustrious, and will become a skilled workman in his trade, or a woman in 
hers, or boys and girls in theirs, steadier and better paid employment can 
be procured. 
Remember, that while a kindly impulse may prompt you to give relief, 
your duty to the family requires you to consider their moral good, and not 
the gratification of your own emotions, Relief is easy to give. Permanent 
improvement is slow and hard to effect. Let no boy or girl grow up a 
pauper. 
In all cases where distress is due to thriftlessness, indolence, or blamable 
inefficiency, visitors must remember that gratuitous relief is not only pro- 
hibited, but that in nine cases out of ten it is positively hurtful, fostering 
these very faults, lessening self-respect and self-reliance, and injuring char- 
acter. Suggest work Find it, if possible. Insist on it; but beware not 
to let them rely on your finding it for them. 
So far as gratuitous relief is needed, it must come from existing relief- 
giving societies, or with the approval of the District Conference. Do not 
encourage families receiving relief to ask or expect more than the ex- 
perienced visitors of these other societies are giving. Aim to make it less, 
and, as soon as may be, none at all. 
A visitor will do harm if he makes the poor discontented. Their lot is 
hard enough. Do not make it harder. Close rooms, poor fare, thin clothes, 
they are too often accustomed to. 
There is one great want in the life of the poor which we do not sufficiently 
understand the want of healthful amusement Crowded rooms and 
general discomfort drive many a man to the rum-shop, and young persons 
to unhealthy entertainments. Pleasant occasions might be arranged by the 
visitors, which should give their poor friends something to look forward to 
from one week or month to another. A good laugh is a good thing. Help 
them to forget for a time their hard lot. 
Visitors may often wisely influence a wife to keep her rooms and children 
neat, that her husband may enjoy staying at home more. 
Wherever a family—especially with children—is in a foul tenement or 150 
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foul neighborhood, a visitor can perhaps do nothing so wise as to urge (and 
aid) them to move into healthy rooms in a good street. 
Inexperienced visitors are often—very often—deceived, especially if the 
poor think they have anything to gain The confession of an experienced 
visitor is always how often he has been deceived. 
Be careful, but do not show suspicion. 
Before you visit a family, it will be wise to see or write to the visitor 
who has given them relief. 
Information concerning the Dispensai’y Physicians, Overseers of the 
Poor, Police Officers, City Missionaries, Missionaries at Large and Almon- 
ers of Charities, asylums and hospitals which relieve special cases, may 
be found in the Directory of the Charitable and Beneficent Organizations 
of Boston, just published, 1880, which every visitor is advised to get and 
study. 
Every citizen of Boston, and especially every visitor, should know the 
Wayfarers’ Lodge, for men, on Hawkins Street, and the Temporary Home 
for Women on Chardon Street. Men and women can here get bed, bath 
and food, paying for them by work. 
QUOTATIONS. 
Give no alms to vicious persons, if such alms will support their sin, or if 
they will continue in idleness. “If they will not work, neither let them 
eat.”—Jeremy Taylor, 
I believe our irregular alms to the occupant of the miserable room, to 
the shoeless flower-seller, are tending to keep a whole class on the very 
brink of pauperism, who might be taught self-control and foresight, if we 
would let them learn it. 
Let us imagine a case where we give to a man whose income is small. 
What is the effect on his character of these irregular doles ? Do they not 
lead him to trust to them, to spend up to the last penny what he earns, and 
hope for help when work slackens or altogether fails ? Does he try, cost 
what it may, to provide for sickness, for times when trade is dull and 
employment scarce ?—Octavia Hill. 
As wonderful and incongruous things are done in the name of charity as 
were ever perpetrated in that of liberty. If always twice blessed in spirit, 
it is often twice cursed in effect. 
If it covers a multitude of sins in those who give, it too often in another 
and worse sense covers a multitude of sins in those upon whom it is 
bestowed. To the worthless scheming poor, it is a cloak for and incentive 
to the sins of lying and idleness; and although they do not see it in that 
light, it is a curse to them in that it does incite them to those sins—it 
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of human nobility or spirit of independence that might be in their nature. 
—Thomas Wright. 
Do not fear that such needy persons as you refuse to relieve are left 
to starve; they are simply left to apply in another quarter for the relief 
which the law provides for them.—Hints to District Visitors, Bev. F. Hes- 
sey, D. C. L. 
Let the head hold in check the heart—refuse all street charity, all relief 
to that demoralized multitude who spend their lives in going, with artfully 
devised tales of woe, from house to house, and from society to society. 
School yourselves into more rational methods, and let the time come to an 
end when the accomplished cheat is filled with good things, while the 
deserving poor are sent empty away.—Bev. S. Humphreys Gurteen, M. A. 
Mendicancy has become a profession, and the study of paupexnsm a 
science Now, the unnatural increase of the dependent classes, fostered 
by ourselves from a mistaken view of charity, demands, to stem its current, 
associated, organized effort of the highest ability; demands also, that, 
stripped of its false garb of almsgiving, i*aised from its low estimate of 
mSney value, charity itself shall be redeemed, restored, both in word and 
in deed, to its original meaning of love, “ And though I bestow all my 
goods to feed the poor, * * * and have not charity, it profiteth me 
nothing,” says St. Paul. How far have we wandered from that early teach- 
ing, when we use the words charity and almsgiving as synonymous terms ! 
—Louisa Lee Schuyler. 
“ Societies are hard,” say the poor. “ Charity pauperizes,” says the 
political economist. Yes, there are societies which are hard, and there is a 
so-called charity which is weakness. But a society which reaches the poor 
through the warm hearts of hundreds-of volunteer visitors cannot become 
a machine; and the charity which strives to follow in the footsteps of the 
Master, will learn from Him that the truest love will be as firm as it is 
gentle, and can never become weak.—Louisa Lee Schuyler. 
Love and wisdom combined are the great regenerators of mankind.— 
—Susan I. Lesley. 
Never allow your love for the poor to degenerate into weak sentiment, 
or consider a poor man exempt in any way from doing all he can to earn 
for himself and his family an independent living.— T. F. Bing's Essay on 
the St. Vincent de Paul Society, read before the Catholic Union. 
Be always respectful in manner to those whom you visit, remembering 
that you have no more right to enter their rooms without their consent 
than they have to enter yours.—Dr. Hessey, 
Do not force your presence upon those who show unwillingness to receive 
your visits. But express to them in a friendly manner your readiness to 
call again, if they should hereafter wish it.—Dr. Hessey. 152 
QUOTATIONS. 
Never state the object of a visit as being to see whether any relief is 
wanted, for the visits of one who is regarded only as a person from whom 
something is to be got, are rather worse than useless.— Dr. Hessey. 
Avoid anything like dictation in any suggestions, however valuable, that 
you have to make; and be careful not to make such suggestions in the 
presence of neighbors, or even of the children of the family.— Dr. Hessey. 
Beware of any appearance of ill-temper or impatience in your behavior 
towards the poor.— Dr. Hessey. 
Combine patience and courtesy with discrimination and firmness.— C. B% 
P. Bosanquet, M. A. 
Instead of reproving and fault-finding, encourage. 
Approach these poor women as sisters. Learn lovingly and patiently, 
(aye, and reverently, for there is that in every human being which deserves 
reverence, and must be reverenced, if we wish to understand it;) learn, I 
say, to understand their troubles, and by that time they will have learned 
to understand your remedies. For you have remedies.— Charles Kingsley. 
Do not expect always gratitude from those whom you have benefited; 
and, where it is not shown, do not conclude invariably that it is not felt. 
Dr. Hessey. 
Never take squalidness as an evidence of want, or neatness as an evi- 
dence of plenty.— Boston Provident Association. 
Keep those whom you visit informed of their rights and duties as to 
removal of dust, and other sanitary provisions; and if you observe any 
serious sanitary defect in their houses or neighborhood, call the attention 
of the Medical Officer of Health, or the Inspector of Nuisances to it Dr. 
Hessey. (In Boston, apply to the Board of Health, 32 Pemberton Square.) 
The elevation of the poor in their homes! How can we help towards 
it ? How shall we each find the one little niche we are best fitted to fill, 
where earnestly and humbly we may work on, catching perchance, as we 
work, some little glimpse of God’s immortal plan of bringing all His chil- 
dren nearer to him ? Louisa Lee Schuyler. 
Above all, we need the education of ourselves as visitors. Now, in what 
does this education consist? First, we are educated for this work by our 
homes and individual characters; then by our reading and reflection, and 
lastly by experience.— Susan I Lesley. 
You want to know the poor, to enter into their lives, their thoughts, to 
let them enter into some of your brightness, to make their lives a little 
fuller, a little gladder. You might gladden their homes by bringing them 
flowers, or better still by teaching them to grow plants; you might meet 
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their savings; you might sing for and with them; might teach and refine 
and make them cleaner by merely going among them.— Octavia Hill. 
From all the beauty which crowns our lives with loving kindness, has no 
voice come to us bidding us gird ourselves anew for our life-work, and 
enjoining on us both the duty and the privilege of converting the benefits 
we have received to the good of the poor, the weary, the over-worked, the 
sad, the inefficient and the vicious ? Susan I. Lesley. 
But it is a mistake to believe that any letting of ourselves down will 
ever lift them up. The “hail fellow, well met” air which we sometimes 
see in those who would avoid condescension, often leads to rash relations 
with those we would benefit, and consequent disappointment. Let our 
poor friends rather see in our manner that we stand always ready, always 
on the alert to be their friends.— Susan 1. Lesley. 
I have sometimes been asked by rich acquaintances, whether I do not 
remember the words, “ Never turn your face from any poor man.” I may 
deserve reproach; I may have forgotten many a poor man, but I cannot 
help thinking that to give oneself rather than one’s money to the poor is 
not exactly turning one’s face from him.— Octavia Hill. 
Don’t let us despise enthusiasm. There is more lack of heart than of 
brains. We agree with the Indian, who, when talked to about having too 
much zeal, said, “ I think it is better for the pot to boil over, than not to boil 
at all.”— Congregationalist. 
But let us not be too impatient for results, it is not wise. Hope and faith 
are what we want not sight.— Susan I. Lesley. 
Since varieties of needs require varieties of treatment, it is not well for 
any visitor to lay aside as hopeless any family or individual, even when she 
has conscientiously done all she can. Said a good mother of a family to 
me once in a period of much perplexity about a portion of her brood : “ I 
never think we parents have done our whole duty by our children if we 
have only given them ourselves. I thank God that I know of people who 
influence my children, where I fail. What I desire is that they get good 
influence, and what matters it whether it comes through me, or through 
some wiser person to whom I refer them ? ” Would that in our relations to 
our poor friends we could imitate her wisdom ! Susan I. Lesley. 
Will any one who once takes these views of charity, be willing to go 
back to alms-giving without investigation, or to the lazy and vicious way 
of taking money from their pockets to injure their brothers and sisters, 
rather than give their time, their patience, and their personal labor to the 
work of elevating these children of God ? Surely it is not the will of our 
Father that one of these should perish.— Susan I. Lesley. 154 
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GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
Adams Nervine Asylum, PAGfj 
Advent Christian Church ina 
Advent Church, Charlestown, ••• i ina 
Aged and Destitute Clergymen, Society for Relief of, ‘ ’ 97 
Aid Society, Highland, ........ yr 
Aid Society, Spiritualists’ 
Alexander Dumas Association, 70 
All Saints’ Church, .U; 
Allston M. E. Church, ‘ ‘ 
Almshouses, 47 
Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, ! * ’ 7L 
Ambulance Service, ' * " 33 
American Asylum for the Education and Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb' 
Hartford, Conn., ’4*? 
American College and Education Society, aq 
American Legion of Honor, 79 
American Seamen’s Friend Society, * ’ ’ 07 
American Society of Hibernians, 70 
American Tract Society, S4 
American Unitarian Association, qp 
Ancient Order of United Workmen, ’ 72 
Angel Guardian, House of, ’ ' * ' If 
Appleton Church, 104 
Appleton Temporary Home, 
Arcanum, Royal, .... ' 
Arlington Street Church, ij 
Army Services, State Aid and Military Aid, ‘ oc 
Associated Charities of Boston, ... . 
Association, Evangelical Lutheran Church, for Works of Mercy ’. ' ' '’ 55 
Association for the Protection of Destitute Roman Catholic Children ! ‘ * ki 
Austin Farm Almshouse, . ” " 47 
Baldwin Place Home for Little Wanderers, V-j 
Baptist Benevolent and Missionary Society, * ’ ' or 
Baptist Bethel, Hanover Street, \ ’ qo 
Baptist Charitable Society, !!"*** 97 
Baptist Churches, .....*’*]**’*" 
Bath Abraham, | [ 
Baths, Public, * \ 
Beacon Hill Church, . . . . " ’ \ ’ ’ * - ' " iaq 
Beige (Franco), Societe de Secours Mutuels, ! lop1op 
Beige (Franco), Societe de Bienfaisance oil 
Benefit Society, Boston, | 
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, 
Benevolent Firm, Female, \ \ ‘ ‘ ' tq 
Benevolent Fraternity of Churches, . . ! 1. 
Benevolent Society, (First Parish, Dorchester) .’ .* 99 
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Benevolent Society, Howard, 18 
Benevolent Society, Young Men’s, 19 
Berkeley Street Church, • 95 
Bethel Chapel (Boston Port and Seamen’s Aid Society),. ..... 26 
Bethesda Society, 62 
Bible Readers, Society for Employment of, 84 
Bible Society, Massachusetts, 84 
Blind, Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the 42 
Board of Commissioners of Prisons, . 15 
Board of Directors of Public Institutions, 12 
Board of Health (City), etc. (under Legal Suggestions, page 119) ... 13,133 
Note.—The Legal Suggestions are not fully indexed, as they comprise only 
a few pages, which may be read in a short time. 
Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity, 13 
Boarding-Houses, _ 113 
Boffin’s Bower, ' 29 
Bootblacks’ Reading Room, . 86 
Boston Asylum and Farm School for Indigent Boys, 53 
Boston Benefit Society, 70 
Boston Caledonian Club, 79 
Boston Children’s Aid Society, 64 
Boston Children’s Friend Society, .......... 56 
Boston City Hospital, 34) 120 
Boston Cooking School, 10 
Boston Co-operative Building Company, 60 
Boston Co-operative Store, 71 
Boston Deaf Mute Society, 43 
Boston Dental College, 80 
Boston Dispensary, 41 
Boston Fatherless and Widows’ Society, . , 28 
Boston Female Asylum, 54 
Boston Flower and Fruit Mission, 46 
Boston Industrial Temporary Home, . . . ' 52 
Boston Lunatic Hospital, 44 
Boston Lying-in Hospital, 37 
Boston Marine Society, 77 
Boston Masonic Mutual Benefit Association, 73 
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 83 
Boston Musicians’ Relief Fund Society, 25 
Boston North End Diet Kitchen, 40 
Boston North End Mission, 23 
Boston Overseers of the Poor, 20, 120-134 
Boston Pilots’ Relief Society, 76 
Boston Police Relief Association, 76 
Boston Port and Seamen’s Aid Society, 25 
Boston Post Office Mutual Relief Association, 74 
Boston Provident Association, 22 
Boston Public Library, 83 
Boston Public Schools, 81 
Boston Seamen’s Friend Society, 87 
Boston Sewing Circle, 7 
Boston Society of Natural History, 83 
Boston Training School for Nurses, 36 
Boston Turnverein, 78 
Boston University, 82 
Boston Widow and Orphan Association, 78 156 
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Boston Young Men’s Christian Association, 88 
Boston Young Men’s Christian Union, 88 
Boston Young Men’s Hebrew Association, 89 
Boston Young Women’s Christian Association, 92 
Bowdoin Square Church, 
Boylston Congregational Church, 95 
Boylston Education Fund, 21 
Boylston Relief Fund, 21 
Bradford Academy, 83 
Brattle Street Church, 97 
Bridgewater Workhouse, .13 
Brighton Avenue Baptist Church, 93 
Brighton Congregational Church, 95 
British Charitable Society, 
Broadway Church, 
Broadway Unitarian Church, South Boston, 
Brook Farm Orphan Home, .55 
Building Fund and Loan Association, Workingmen’s, ! 87 
Bulfinch Place Chapel, .*9B 
Bunker Hill Baptist Church, 93 
Bureau of Reference for Women (B. Y. M. C. U.), 88 
Burial of Poor Persons, * 134. 
Burnap, Miss, Home for Aged and Friendless, ! 60 
Caledonian Club, 
Cancer Home, .39 
Carney Hospital, .35 
Carpenters and Joiners, Amalgamated Society of, 75 
Cathedral of the Holy Cross, ’ igg 
Catholic Apostolic Church, • ! 94 
Catholic Brothers of Charity, .56 
Catholic Churches, " igg 
Cemeteries, 
Central Church, Berkeley Street, 95 
Central Congregational Church, Jamaica Plain, .95 
Central Square Church, East Boston, 93 
Central Square Universalist Church, ’ 109 
Channing Circle (Arlington Street Church), .97 
Channing Home, . 38 
Chapel of the Evangelists, " iqq 
Chardon Street Home, *2l 125 
Charitable Association of the Boston Fire Department, ’75 
Charitable Fire Society, Massachusetts, 24 
Charitable Irish Society, 31 
Charitable Mechanic Association, 76 
Charitable Society, Roxbury, 19 
Charities of Boston, Associated, ’ 3 
Charity, State Board of, ’ 13 
Charlestown Almshouse, ... 47 
Charlestown Free Dispensary and Hospital, 41 
Charlestown Infant School and Children’s Home Association, . ... 59 
Charlestown Poor’s Fund, .17 
Charlestown Young Men’s Christian Association i 88 
Chelsea Marine Hospital, 36 
Chelsea Naval Hospital, 35 
Children, Legal Suggestions Concerning, " 129 
Children’s Aid Society, 64 GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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Children’s Excursions, 29 
Children’s Friend Society, 56 
Children’s Home, Nickerson, 58 
Children’s Home, Charlestown, 59 
Children’s Homes, (under Spinal and Consumptive Homes) 39 
Children’s Hospital, 39 
Children’s Mission to the Children of the Destitute, 59 
Children’s Protective Society, 67 
Children’s Temporary Home, Chambers St. (S. P. C. C.), 67 
Christ Church, 101 
Christian Church, 95 
Christian Temperance Union, Woman’s, ........ 65 
Christian Workers, 90 
Churches, 93 
Church Home for Orphan and Destitute Children, 56 
Church of Christ, 108 
Church of Gate of Heaven, 106 
Church of Our Father, East Boston, 98 
Church of Our Father, South Boston, 109 
Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 106 
Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, 107 
Church of St. Augustine, 107 
Church of St. Columbkille, 107 
Church of St. Francis de Sales, Charlestown, 107 
Church of St. Francis de Sales, Vernon Street, 107 
Church of St. Gregory, 10/ 
Church of St. James, Harrison Avenue, 107 
Church of St. John the Baptist, 107 
Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, So. Boston, , 107 
Church of St. Theresa, 107 
Church of St. Thomas, 108 
Church of St. Vincent de Paul, 108 
Church of the Advent, 101 
Church of the Disciples, 98 
Church of the Good Shepherd, 101 
Church of the Holy Trinity, 106 
Church of the Immaculate Conception 
Church of the Messiah, 101 
Church of the Most Holy Redeemer . 106 
Church of the Puritans, 95 
Church of the Sacred Heart, 106 
Church of the Unity, Neponset, 98 
Church of the Unity, W. Newton Street, 98 
City Almshouses, 47 
City Hospital, t, 34, 120 
City Missionary Society, 84 
City Point Mission, 104 
City Physician, 69 
City Soup, 17 
Clarendon Street Church, 93 
Clark Institution for Deaf Mutes, Northampton, 43 
Clergymen, Aged and Destitute, Society for relief of, 27 
Clerical Fund Association, 27 
Clothing Club, (House of Good Samaritan), 38 
Coffee Room, 113 
College and Education Society, New Eng., 89 158 
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Colonization Society, Mass., 113 
Columbian Charitable Society of Shipwrights and Caulkers, .... 77 
Commissioners of Prisons, 15 
Concord Prison (State), 15 
Congregation Har Moriah, 103 
Congregation Shaaray Teifila, 103 
Congregational Charitable Society, 28 
Congregational Churches, 95 
Congregational Library, 83 
Congregational Publishing Society, 85 
Congregational Trinitarian Churches, 95 
Congregational Unitarian Churches. 97 
Consumptives’ Home, 39 
Convalescents’ Home, Mass. Gen. Hosp., 35 
Convalescent Home, Wellesley (Children’s Hospital), 39 
Convalescents, St. Luke’s Home for, 38 
Cooking School, Boston, . 10 
Co-operative Building Co. 
Co-operative Saving Fund Association, 71 
Co-operative Society of Visitors among the Poor of Boston, 8 
Co-operative Store, Boston, 71 
Correction, House of, 13 
Cost of Funerals, .' 147 
Cottage Street Church, 108 
Country Week (B. Y. M. C. U.), 88 
Course of Proceedings to Obtain Relief (Government), 123 
D Street Free-Will Baptist Church, 93 
Danvers Hospital (Insane), . 45 
Daughters of Zion, United, 79 
Davis Street Temporary Home, 52 
David Sears Charity, 21 
Day Nurseries, 58 
Day Star Baptist Church, 93 
Deaf, Public Schools for 43 
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Hartford, Conn., 43 
Deaf Mutes, Clark Institution for, Northampton, 43 
Deaf Mute Society (Boston), 43 
Dearborn Street Church, 93 
Deer Island Almshouse, 47 
Dental College, Boston, 80 
Dental Infirmary, Mass. Gen. Hosp., 36 
Department of Health, 13 
Devens Benevolent Society, .109 
Dexter Fund, 21 
Diet Kitchens, ■: 40 
Directors of Public Institutions, 12,120-134 
Directory for Nurses, . 6 
Disabled Soldiers, Mass. Employment Bureau for, 6 
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, National Hornes for, 48 
Discharged Female Prisoners, Asylum for, 62 
Dispensary, (Roxbury Charitable Society) 20 
Dispensary for Diseases of Children 42 
Dispensary for Diseases of Women, 42 
Dispensary for Women and Children, 19 Fayette Street, 38 
District Police 110 
Divinity School, Harvard University, 82 GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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Doane Fund for Nurses, 49 
Dorchester Church, 104 
Dorchester Second Church, 96 
Dorchester Street Church, 104 
Drawing Schools, 82 
Dudley Street Baptist Church, 93 
Dumas Association, Alexander, 78 
Duty of City, etc., to Settled Poor 120 
E Street Church, . 96 
East Boston Ferry Relief Association, 74 
Eastern Massachusetts Masonic Mutual Relief Association, 73 
Ebenezer Baptist Church, . . 93 
Education Fund, Boylston, 24 
Education of Women, Mass. Society for University, 91 
Education Society, American College and, 89 
Education Society, New England, 89 
Educational and Industrial Union, Women’s, 91 
Educational Association, Woman’s, 91 
Egleston Square M. E. Church, 104 
Eliot Church, 96 
Elks’ Mutual Benefit Association, 72 
Elks, Protective Order of, 72 
Emmanuel Church, 101 
Emmanuel’s Church (Swedish), 103 
Employment and Temporary Relief Society, Jamaica Plain, • ... 19 
Employment Bureau for Disabled Soldiers, 6 
Employment Society (King’s Chapel) 99 
Employment Society of First Church, ■ 95 
Employment Society of St. John’s Church, Tremont Street, 102 
Employment Society of Trinity Church, 102 
Episcopal Churches, 100 
Episcopal City Mission, 85 
Episcopal Clerical Fund Association of the Diocese of Massachusetts, . . 27 
Equity Union, New England 70 
Evangelical Advent Church, 108 
Evangelical Baptist Benevolent Missionary Society 85 
Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church, 103 
Evening Schools, Public, 80, 81 
Excursions for Poor Children, 29 
Eye and Ear Infirmary, 42 
Eye Dispensary, Carney Hospital 35 
Farm School, Thompson’s Island, 53 
Fatherless and Widows’ Society, 28 
Female Asylum, Boston, 54 
Female Benevolent Firm, 79 
Female Benevolent Society, Roxhury, 99 
Female College (Simmons), 90 
Females’ Refuge, 62 
Ferry Relief Association, East Boston, 74 
Fire Department Charitable Association, .75 
Fire Fund, Summer Street, *24 
Fire Society, Charitable, 24 
Firm, Female Benevolent, 79 
First African Church, 105 
First Baptist Church, Charlestown, 93 
First Baptist Church, Shawmut Avenue, 93 160 
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First Church, Marlboro’ Street, 95 
First Church Employment Society, 95 
First Congregational Society, Jamaica Plain, 98 
First Free Baptist Church, . 93 
First New Jerusalem Church, 108 
First Parish Benevolent Society, 99 
First Parish Church, Charlestown, 96 
First Parish, Dorchester, 99 
First Parish of Brighton, 98 
First Parish, West Roxbury, . . 98 
First Presbyterian Church, Berkeley Street, 105 
First Presbyterian Church, East Boston, 105 
First Reformed Presbyterian Church, 106 
First Religious Society, Roxbury, 99 
First Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Church, 103 
First United Presbyterian Church, 106 
First Universalist Church, Charlestown 109 
First Universalist Church, Dudley Street, ■ . . . 109 
Flower and Fruit Mission, 40 
Flower Mission (Shawmut Universalist), 46 
Fourth Presbyterian Church, 106 
Fourth Street Baptist Church, 94 
Fragment Society, 17 
Franco-Beige Societe de Bienfaisance, 30 
Franco-Beige Societe de Secours Mutuels, 30 
Franklin Fund, 25 
Franklin Typographical Society, 76 
Fraternal Association, 78 
Free Hospital for Women, 37 
Free Institute, Worcester, 7 
Friendly Aid Association, 113 
Friendly Hand, 17 
Friendly Society, Girls’, 29 
Friends’Meeting, Wesleyan Hall, 103 
Fuel Fund, Pierce, 21 
General Hospital, Massachusetts, 35 
German Aid Society, 30 
German M. E. Church, 104 
German Reformed Church, 106 
Girls’ Friendly Society, 29 
Girls’ Industrial School, Dorchester, 54 
Girls’ Industrial School, North End Mission, 23 
Good Samaritan, House of, 38 
Good Shepherd, House of, 62 
Good Templars, 66 
Grace Church, Episcopal, 101 
Grace Church, Methodist Episcopal, 104 
Grammar Schools, Public 81 
Grand Army of the Republic, 26 
Grove Hall Church, 108 
Grove Hall Universalist Church, 109 
Gymnasiums, 88 
Hanover Street Chapel, 99 
Harbor, Sailors’ Snug, 49 
Harris Fund for the Blind (Perkins Institution), 43 
Harrison Avenue Church, . 104 GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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Harrison Square M. E. Church, 104 
Harrison Square Unitarian Church, 99 
Harvard Benevolent Circle (Harvard Church, Charlestown), 99 
Harvard Church, Charlestown, 99 
Harvard Examinations for Women, .91 
Harvard Street Church, 94 
Harvard University, 82 
Hawes Place Congregational Society, 99 
Health, City Board of, 13 
Health Department, 13, 133 
Health Hints, 135 
Health, State Board of, 13 
Hebrew Association, Young Men’s, 89 
Hebrew Benevolent Association, United, 31 
Hebrew Ladies’ Sewing Society, 31 
Hibernians, Society of, 78 
High Schools, Public, 81 
Highland Aid Society, 17 
Highland Church, Parker Street, .96 
Highland Church, Warren Street, 104 
Highland Mutual Aid Society, 74 
Hildise Bund Sections of the Prudential League, Boston, 70 
Historical Society, Massachusetts, 83 
Holland Church, 96 
Hollis Street Church, 99 
Holly Tree Inns, 113 
Holton Protestant Pauper Fund, 21 
Holton Protestant Poor Fund, 21 
Home Circle (Hawes Place Congregational Society), 99 
Home Circle (Secret), 74 
Home Education Society, Ladies’, 58 
Home for Aged and Friendless, Miss Burnap’s, 50 
Home for Aged Colored Women 50 
Home for Aged Men, 48 
Home for Aged Poor, 51 
Home for Aged Women, 49 
Home for Aged Women, Charlestown, 50 
Home for Children and Aged Women, Hoxbury, 51 
Home for Convalescents, Massachusetts General Hospital 35 
Horae for Convalescents (St. Luke’s), 38 
Home for Destitute Catholic Children, 58 
Home for Intemperate Women, 65 
Home for Little Wanderers, 57 
Home for Orphan and Destitute Children, 56 
Home for Sick and Destitute Servant Girls, 53 
Home for the Destitute, Pine Place, 59 
Home, Temporary, Chardon Street 21 
Homes for Children (Consumptives’ Home), 39 
Homes for Children (Spinal Home), 40 
Homes, National, for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 48 
Homestead Co-operative Savings Fund and Loan Association, .... 71 
Homeopathic Hospital, Massachusetts, 34 
Homeopathic Medical Dispensary, 41 
Horace Mann School for Deaf (Public) 81 
Horticultural Society, Massachusetts, .83 
Hospital Newspaper Society, 33 162 
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House for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders 63 
House of Correction, 13 
Houje of Industry (Deer Island), 61 
House of the Angel Guardian, 56 
House of the Good Samaritan, 38 
House of the Good Shepherd, 62 
Howard Benevolent Society, 18 
Humane Society of Massachusetts, 68 
Immanuel Church, 96 
Immanuel’s German Lutheran Church, 103 
Improved Dwellings for the Poor, 60 
Independent Order of Good Templars (two), 66 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 73 
Independent Order of Red Men 74 
Industrial Aid Society, Union, 113 
Industrial Aid Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, 5 
Industrial School, North End, 9 
Industrial School for Girls (Dorchester), . . 54 
Industrial School for Girls (Lancaster), 64 
Industrial School for Girls (North End Mission) 23 
Industrial School for Women (North End Mission,) 23 
Industrial Temporary Home, 52 
Industrial Union, Women’s Educational and, . • ■ 91 
Infant Asylum, Massachusetts, 55 
Infant School, Charlestown, 59 
Inquiry Office for Lost or Stolen Children, 67 
Inspector of Intelligence Offices, 13 
Inspector of Pawnbrokers, 13 
Institute of Technology, 82 
Institute, Worcester (Free), 7 
Institutions, Public, Directors of, . .12, 120-134 
Intelligence Offices, Inspector of, 13 
Irish Charitable Society, . 31 
Italian Benevolent Society, 31 
Jail, Suffolk County, 13 
Jamaica Plain Baptist Church, 94 
Jamaica Plain Employment and Temporary Relief Society, 19 
Jamaica Plain M. E. Church, ........... 104 
Jeffries Fund, 21 
Jewish Synagogues, 103 
Kindred of the Poor, Bound to Support, 120 
King’s Chapel, .' 99 
King’s Chapel Employment Society, 99 
Knights of Honor, 73 
Knights of Pythias, 73 
Laboratories, BO 
Ladies’ Aid Association (Children’s Hospital), 39 
Ladies’ Aid Ass’n of Mass. Homoeop. Hospital, 34 
Ladies’Aid Society (Spiritualists), 18 
Ladies’ American Home Education Society and Temperance Union, ... 58 
Ladies’ Benev. Ass’n (Church of the Unity), 98 
Ladies’ Benev. Soc. (Boylston Cong. Ch.), 95 
Ladies’ Benev. Soc. (Dudley Street Baptist Church), 93 
Ladies’ Benev. Society (South Evangel. Ch.), .97 
Ladies’ Commission on Sunday School Books (Am. Unitarian Assoc.), 90 
Ladies’ Relief Agency, 23 GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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Ladies Union (Arlington Street Church), 97 
Landlord and Tenant, 132 
Latin Schools (Public), 81 
Laundry, North End, 10 
Law of Settlement, 121 
Lawrence Model Houses, ............ 60 
Legal Suggestions, 119 
Note. The legal suggestions are not fully indexed, as they cover but few 
pages, which may be read in a short time. 
Legion of Honor, American, . . . . 72 
Lenox Street Chapel, 96 
Lewis Street Mission, 86 
Liability of Pauper, or the Husband or Estate, to pay for Government Aid, . . 119 
Licensed Minors, Public Schools for, 81 
Little Sisters of the Poor, 51 
Little Wanderers’ Home, .57 
Loan Ass’n, Co-operative, 71 
Loan Association, Workingmen’s, 87 
Lodge, Wayfarers’, 22, 125 
Lodging and Boarding Houses, .113 
Lost or Stolen Children Inquiry Office, 67 
Lowell Free Courses, 80 
Lowell Institute, 80 
Lowell School of Practical Design, 81 
Lucy Bullman Charity, 21 
Lunacy, State Board of, 13 
Lunatic Paupers, How Cared for, 123 
Lutheran Church, Ass’n for Works of Mercy 55 
Lutheran Churches, 103 
Lying-in Hospital, 37 
Lying-in Hospital, St. Mary’s, 35 
McLean Asylum for the Insane 36 
Marcella Street Home, 53 
Marine Hospital, Chelsea, 36 
Marine Society, 77 
Mariners’ Church, 105 
Mariners’ House 26 
Martin Luther Orphan Home, 55 
Mason Fund 21 
Masonic Mutual Benefit Association, 73 
Masonic Societies, 73 
Massachusetts Baptist Charitable Society, 27 
Massachusetts Bible Society, 84 
Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary 42 
Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, 24 
Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, 76 
Massachusetts Children’s Protective Society, 67 
Massachusetts Colonization Society, 113 
Massachusetts Congregational Charitable Society, 28 
Massachusetts Employment Bureau for Disabled Soldiers 6 
Massachusetts Friendly Aid Association, 113 
Massachusetts General Hospital, 35 
Massachusetts Historical Society, 83 
Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital, 34 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 83 
Massachusetts Humane Society, 68 164 
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Massachusetts Infant Asylum, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 82 
Massachusetts Medical Benevolent Society, 74 
Massachusetts Mutual Aid Society, 70 
Massachusetts Normal Art School, 80 
Massachusetts Public Health Association, 68 
Massachusetts School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth, 44 
Massachusetts Society for Aiding Discharged Convicts 61 
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, .... 67 
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, .... 67 
Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women, .... 91 
Massachusetts Temperance Alliance, 65 
Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society, 65 
Maverick Church, East Boston, 95 
Mechanic Association, Massachusetts Charitable, ....... 76 
Mechanics’ Mutual Aid Society, jq 
Medical Benevolent Society, Massachusetts, [ 74 
Medical Examiners, ' 13 
Medical Library, 83 
Meridian Street M. E. Church, ! 104 
Messenger Corps, Soldiers’, . g 
Methodist Churches, . . . ’ 105 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Mattapan, 104 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Preachers’ Aid Society of New England Conference, 27 
Methodist Episcopal Churches, 103 
Metropolitan Church, 95 
Military Aid on Account of Army and Navy Services, 26 
Minors, Licensed, Public Schools for, 81 
Mishkan Israel, ' 103 
Miss Burnap’s Home for Aged and Friendless, 50 
Missionary Society, City, §4 
Monroe Memorial Church, * 104 
Monument Square M. E. Church, " .104 
Moral Education Association of Boston, 90 
Moral Reform Society, ! ! ! 63 
Mount Hope Summer Home for Children, ........ 23 
Mount Hope Home for Fallen Women, 23 
Mount Pleasant Church, 104 
Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, 99 
Mount Vernon Church, 
Murray Chapel ’ 109 
Museum of Fine Arts, ! ! 83 
Musicians’ Relief Fund Society, . ... 25 
National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, ! 48 
Natural History, Boston Society of, 83 
Naval Hospital, Chelsea, ! 36 
Navy Services, State Aid and Military Aid, ....!!!! 26 
Needlewoman’s Friend Society, . 8 
Neponset Avenue Church, ’ ] ‘ 94 
Nervine Asylum, Adams, ; ! 40 
New England Education Society, . , , . ...... 89 
New England Equity Union, 70 
Now England Home for Intemperate Women, 65 
New England Hospital for Women and Children, 37 
New England Moral Reform Society, .63 
New England Scandinavian Benevolent Society, ’3l GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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New England Society for tlie Suppression of Vice, 66 
New South Free Church, • 99 
Newsboys’ Reading Room, 86 
Nickerson Home for Children, 58 
Normal Art School, ! 80 
Normal School (Public), 81 
Normal Schools (State), 80 
North End Diet Kitchen, 40 
North End Industrial School, 9 
North End Laundry, 10 
North End Mission, 23 
North End Mission Church, 108 
North End Nursery, 
Northampton Hospital (Insane), 45 
Northampton Institution (Clark) for Deaf Mutes, 43 
North Street Union Mission to the Poor, 18 
Nursery and Kindergarten School (North End Mission), 23 
Nursery, North End, . , 58 
Nursery, West End, ' . 58 
Nurses, Boston Training School for, 36 
Nurses, Doane Fund for, 49 
Nurses, Training School for (City Hospital), 35 
Nurses, Training School for (New England Hospital for Women and Children), . 37 
Odd Fellows, 
Odd Fellows’ Relief Association, .73 
Ohabei Shalom ’ 103 
Old Colony Chapel, . ! 96 
Old South Church, 
Olivet Church, . 96 
Orphan Home, Brook Farm, 55 
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 106 
Our Lady of the Assumption Church, ......... 107 
Overseers of the Poor, Boston, . 20 120-134 
Park Street Church, ’ . 96 
Parks and Squares, ’ ’ hq 
Pauper Fund, Protestant, .21 
Pauper Girls’ School, Deer Island, ' 54 
Pauperism, Industrial Aid Society for the Prevention of, ...... 5 
Pawnbrokers, etc., 132 
Pawnbrokers, Inspector of, 13 
Pawn Fund, 18 
Pemberton Fund, 21 
Penitent Females’ Refuge and Bethesda Society, 62 
Pension Agency (U. S.), 16 
Pensions, 124 
People’s Church, 105 
Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind, 42 
Phillip’s Church, South Boston, 97 
Pierce Fuel Fund, 21 
Pilgrim Church, .97 
Pilots’ Relief Society, 76 
Pine Farm Home for Boys, 64 
Pine Place Temporary Home, 59 
Pioneer Co-operative Savings Fund and Loan Association, 71 
Police Charitable Fund, 25 
Police Commissioners, 166 
GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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Police, District, 110 
Police of Boston, 126 
Police Relief Association, 76 
Police, State, 110 
Police Stations, 110 
Poor Children’s Excursions, 29 
Poor Pund, Protestant, 21 
Poor Fund, Stoughton, 21 
Poor not Settled, or State Paupers, How relieved and Supported, .... 122 
Poor, Overseers of the, 20, 120-134 
Poor Settled in Other Towns, How Relieved, 122 
Poor Widows’ Fund 28 
Poor’s Fund, Charlestown, 28 
Port and Seamen’s Aid Society, 25 
Portland Street Mission, 23 
Portuguese Benevolent Society, 78 
Portuguese Union, 78 
Post Office Mutual Relief Association, . . 74- 
Preacher,s’ Aid Society of the New England Conference of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, 27 
Presbyterian Churches, ' 105 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Society for, 67 
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Society for, 67 
Prevention of Pauperism, Industrial Aid Society for, ..:... 5 
Primary School (State), Monson, 81 
Primary Schools (Public), 81 
Prison Commissioners, 15 
Prison for Women (Reformatory), 62 
Prison, State, Concord, 15 
Probation Officer for the County of Suffolk, 61 
Protestant Pauper Fund, Holton, 21 
Protestant Poor Fund, Holton, 21 
Provident Association, 22 
Provident Wood Yard (South Boston), 6 
Prudential League, Hildise Bund Sections of, in Boston, 70 
Public Baths, 68 
Public Health Association, 68 
Public Institutions, Directors of, 12, 120-134: 
Public Library and Branches, 83 
Public Schools, Boston, 81 
Publications on Charitable Works, 114 
Quaker Meeting, 103 
Quotations, 151 
Rainsford Is. Almshouse, 47 
Reading Room for Newsboys and Bootblacks,. . 86 
Reading Room (North End Mission), 23 
Red Men, Independent Order of, 74 
Reform School for Girls, House of Reformation, 63 
Reform School, Westborough, 63 
Reformatory Prison for Women, Sherborn, 62 
Reformed Episcopal Church, 101 
Registration, 3 
Relief Agency, Ladies’, 23 
Relief Fund, Boylston, 21 
Relief of Aged and Destitute Clergymen, Soc. for, 27 
Relief of Sick Poor, Soc. for 33 GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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Relief Society, Jamaica Plain 19 
Removal of Paupers, . 121 
Revere St. M. E Church, 105 
Roman Catholic Churches, 106 
Roslindale M. E. Church, 105 
Roxhury Charitable Society, 19 
Roxbury Female Benevolent-Society (First Religious Society), .... 99 
Roxhury Home for Children and Aged Women, 51 
Roxhury Young Men’s Free Union, 87 
Royal Arcanum, 74 
Ruggles Street Baptist Church, 94 
Ruggles-Street Church (Meth. Epis.), 105 
Rules and Suggestions for Visitors of the Associated Charities, .... 148 
Sailors’ Cotfee and Reading Rooms, 26 
Sailors’ Snug Harbor, 49 
St. Anne’s Chapel, 101 
St. Anne’s Infant Asylum. (See St. Mary’s.) 
St. Augustine’s Church, 107 
St. Columbkille’s Church, 107 
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 37 
St. Francis de Sales’Church (Charlestown), 107 
St. Francis de Sales’ Church (Roxbury), 107 
St. Gregory’s Church, 107 
St. James’ Church, Harrison Avenue, 107 
St. James’ Church, St. James Street, 102 
St. James’ Employment Society, 102 
St. Jean Baptiste Society, 113 
St. John the Baptist’s Church, 107 
St. John’s Church Employment Society, 102 
St. John’s Church, Charlestown, 102 
St. John’s Church, E. Boston, 102 
St. John’s Church, Jamaica Plain, 102 
St. John’s Church, Tremont Street, 102 
St. John’s Ilniversalist Church, 109 
St. Joseph’s Church, Chambers Street, . . . 107 
St. Joseph’s Church, Roxbury, 107 
St. Joseph’s Home for Sick and Destitute Servant Girls, 53 
St. Leonard’s Church of Fort Morris (Italian), 107 
St. Luke’s Home for Convalescents, 38 
St. Margaret’s Church, 102 
St. Mark’s Church, 102 
St. Mary’s Church, Charlestown, 107 
St. Mary’s Church, Dorchester, 102 
St. Mary’s Church, Endicott Street, 107 
St. Mary’s Church, Parmenter Street, 102 
St. Mary’s Infant Asylum, 35 
St. Mary’s Lying-in Hospital, 35 
St. Matthew’s Church, 102 
St. Patrick’s Church, 107 
St. Paul’s Church, 102 
St. Paul’s Guild, 102 
St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, 107 
St. Peter’s Church, Dorchester, 107 
St. Stephen’s Church, Hanover Street, 107 
St. Stephen’s Church, Tyler Street, 102 
St. Theresa’s Church, 107 168 
GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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St. Thomas’ Church, 108 
St. Vincent de Paul Church, 108 
St. Vincent de Paul Society, 22 
St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, 56 
Sales of Liquor, , 128 
Samaritan Society, So. Boston, 24 
Saratoga Street M. E. Church, 105 
Savings Banks, . . ■ 71 
Savings Fund Association, Co-operative, 71 
Scandinavian Benevolent Society, 31 
School for Girls, State Industrial, 64 
School for Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth, 44 
School for Nurses, Boston Training, 36 
School for Pauper Girls (Deer Island), 54 
School for the Blind, Mass. (Perkins Institution), 42 
School for Training Nurses (City Hospital), 35 
School for Training Nurses (N. Eng. Hosp. for Women and Children),... 37 
School for Truants (Deer Island), 63 
Scots’ Charitable Society, 31 
Scots’ Temporary Home, 31 
Seamen. See also Sailors. 
Seamen’s Aid Society, Boston Port and, 25 
Seamen’s Friend Society, American, 87 
Seamen’s Friend Society, Boston, 87 
Sea-Shore Home, 39 
Second Advent Branch Chapel, . 108 
Second Advent Churches 108 
Second Church, Boylston Street, 100 
Second M. E. Church, 105 
Second New Jerusalem Church, 108 
Second Reformed Presbyterian Church, 106 
Second Universalist Church, 109 
Select List of Books and Papers on Charitable Works, 114 
Servant Girls, Home for Sick and Destitute, 53 
Sewing Circle, Boston, 7 
Sewing Circle (Second Church) 100 
Shaw Asylum for Mariners’ Children, .... .... 57 
Shaw Fund for Girls, Children’s Aid Society, 64 
Shawmut Branch Chapel, 97 
Shawmut Church, 97 
Shawmut Street Presbyterian Church, 106 
Shawmut Universalist Church, 109 
Shawmut Universalist Flower Mission, 46 
Shipwrights’ and Caulkers’ Charitable Society, 77 
Shomrey Shabos, 103 
Sick and Destitute Servant Girls’ Home, 53 
Sick Poor, Society for Relief of, 33 
Simmons Female College, 90 
Sisters of Charity . • 35 
Sisters of St. Francis, . 37 
Sisters of St. Margaret, 101 
Small-Pox Hospital, 40 
Snow Fund, 19 
Snug Harbor for Sailors, 49 
Societe Franco-Beige de Secours Mutuels et de Bienfaisance, 30 
Society for Aiding Discharged Convicts, 61 GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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Society for Needlewomen, 8 
Society for Promoting Theological Education, .90 
Society for the Employment of Bible Readers, 84 
Society for the University Education of Women, 91 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 67 
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 67 
Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, 5 
Society for the Relief of Aged and Destitute Clergymen, 27 
Society for the Relief of the Sick Poor, 33 
Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Deceased Clergymen of the Prot. 
Epis. Church, 75 
Society for the Suppression of Vice 66 
Society of Carpenters and Joiners, 75 
Society of Co-operative Visitors among the Poor of Boston, 8 
Society of Hibernians, 78 
Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 22 
Soldiers, Disabled, Employment Bureau for ....... 6 
Soldiers Messenger Corps, 6 
Sons of Temperance, 73 
Soup, City 17, 123 
South Baptist Church, 94 
South Boston Advent Church, 108 
South Boston Church of Christ, 100 
South Boston Home for Orphan and Destitute Children, 56 
South Boston Wood Yard, Provident, ’6 
South Boston Young Men’s Catholic Association, 89 
South Boston Young Men’s Christian Association, 88 
South Boston Samaritan Society, 24 
South Congregational Church, 100 
South End Diet Kitchen, 40 
South Evangelical Church, W. Roxbury, 97 
Spinal Home, 40 
Spiritualists’ Ladies’ Aid Society, 18 
Squares, 110 
Star of the Sea Church, 107 
State Aid and Military Aid on Account of Army and Navy Services, . . 26, 124 
State Almshouse, Tewksbury, 48 
State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity, 13 
State Industrial School for Girls, 64 
State Library of Massachusetts, 83 
State Lunatic Hospitals and Asylums, 44 
State Normal Schools 80 
State Police, 110 
State Primary School, Monson, 81 
State Prison, Concord, 15 
State Reform School, 63 
State Workhouse, Bridgewater, 13 
Stations, Police, 110 
Stolen Children Inquiry Office, 67 
Stoughton Poor Fund, 21 
Stoughton Street Baptist Church, 94 
Suffolk County Jail, 13 
Suggestions and Rules for Visitors of the Associated Charities, .... 148 
Summer Street Fire Fund, 24 
Swedenborgian Churches, 108 
Swedish Mission, 105 170 
GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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Swiss Aid Society, 32 
Tabernacle Baptist Church, 94 
Taunton Hospital (Insane), 45 
Temperance Alliance, Massachusetts, 65 
Temperance, Sons of, 73 
Temperance Union, Ladies Am., . 58 
Temperance Union, Woman’s Christian, 65 
Templars, Good, 66 
Templars of Honor, 74 
Temple Adath Israel, (German) 103 
Temporary Asylum for Discharged Female Prisoners, 62 
Temporary Home, Appleton, 113 
Temporary Home, (Chardon Street) . 21, 125 
Temporary Home for the Destitute, (1 Pine Place) 59 
Temporary Home for Women, (Oak Place) 63 
Temporary Home for Working Women, 51 
Temporary Home, Industrial, Davis Street, 52 
Temporary Relief Society, Jamaica Plain, 19 
Tewksbury Almshouse, 48 
Tewksbury Asylum for Chronic Insane, . 45 
Theol. Education, Society for Promoting, 90 
Third Religious Society, Dorchester,. . . . . . . . • • . 100 
Total Abstinence Society, 65 
Tract Repository, (Willard) 84 
Tract Society, Am., 84 
Training School for Nurses, (City Hosp.) 35 
Training School for Nurses, Boston, 36 
Training School for Nurses, (N. E. Hosp.) • 38 
Tramps, 124 
Transient Home, (B. Y. W. C. A.) 92 
Tremont Street M. E. Church, 105 
Trinity Baptist Church, .94 
Trinity Church, (Episcopal) 102 
Trinity Church, (German) 103 
Trinity Church, Neponset 97 
Trinity M. E. Church, 105 
Truant Office, 12, 131 
Truant School Dept., Deer Island, 63 
Trust Funds, (Overseers of the Poor) 21,123 
Tufts College, .82 
Turnverein, Boston, 78 
Twelfth Baptist Church, . . 94 
Twenty-Eighth Congregational Society, 95 
Typographical Society, 76 
Union Church 97 
Union Churches, 108 
Union for Christian Work, 86 
Union Industrial Aid Society, 113 
Union Temple Church, . . • 94 
Unitarian Association, Amer., 90 
Unitarian Churches, 97 
United Daughters of Zion, 79 
United Hebrew Benevolent Association, 31 
United States Marine Hospital, Chelsea, . . . , 86 
United States Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 36 
United States Pension Agency 16 GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
171 
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United Workmen, Ancient Order of, . . 72 
Universalist Church, Brighton, 109 
Universalist Church, Jamaica Plain, 109 
Universalist Churches, 109 
Universalist Flower Mission, 40 
University Education of Women, Massachusetts Society, 91 
Vagabonds, Vagrants and Tramps What Government does for them, . . 124 
Village Church, Dorchester, 97 
Visitors Among the Poor, Co-operative Society of, 8 
Waiters’ Benevolent Association, . 77 
Walnut Avenue Church, 97 
Ward VI. Workrooms, 9 
Ward XVI. Workrooms, 9 
Warren Avenue Church, 94 
Warren Museum of Natural History, 83 
Warren Street Chapel, 100 
Washington Village Church, 105 
Washington Village Union Chapel 100 
Washingtonian Home, . . 64 
Wayfarers’ Lodge 22,125 
Wellesley College, 83 
Wells Memorial Association, 87 
Wells Memorial Workingmen’s Club and Institute, 87 
West Boston Relief Association, 60 
West Church 
West End Day Nursery, 58 
White Fund 93 
Widow and Orphan Association, 78 
Widows and Fatherless Society, ..." 28 
Widows’ Fund, 28 
Widows’ Society, 28 
Willard Tract Repository, 84 
Winchester Home for Aged Women, 50 
Winthrop Church, Charlestown, 97 
Winthrop Street M. E. Church, 105 
Woman’s Auxiliary Board, (Scots’Charitable Society) . 32 
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, (local) 05 
Woman’s Educational Association, 91 
Woman’s Temporary Home, Oak Place, 63 
Women and Children’s Hospital, 37 
Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, 91 
Womens Prison, (Reformatory) 62 
Wood Yard, (Provident) South Boston, 6 
Wooden Leg Fund, (Massachusetts General Hospital) 35 
Worcester Asylum for Chronic Insane, 45 
Worcester Free Institute, 7 
Worcester Hospital, (Insane) 45 
Work of Faith, A, 86 
Workhouse, (State) Bridgewater, 13 
Workingmen’s Building Fund and Loan Association, 87 
Workingmen’s Club and Institute, (Wells Memorial) 87 
Workingwomen’s Temporary Home, 51 
Workmen, Ancient Order of United, 72 
Workrooms, Ward VI., 9 
Workrooms, Ward XVL, 9 
Young Men’s Benevolent Society, 19 172 
GENERAL ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
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Young Men’s Catholic Association, Boston College,. 89 
Young Men’s Catholic Association, South Boston, 89 
Young Men’s Christian Association* 88 
Young Men’s Christian Union, 88 
Young Men’s Hebrew Association, 89 
Young Women’s Christian Association, 92 
Zion Church, 105 
Zion, United Daughters of, 79 INDEX TO KINDS OF AID. 
173 
INDEX TO KINDS OF AID. 
[Made up chiefly from Marginal Notes.] 
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Abatement op Nuisances, 13 
Almshouses, 47, 48 
Ambulances, 33 
Artificial Limbs : 
For all Classes, 35 
For Naval Seamen, Disabled, 16 
For Soldiers, Disabled, 16 
Asylums. (See Hospitals and Homes.) 
Bail for Children, 64 
Baths, 68 
Bedding : 
For all Classes,— 
City Proper, 22 
East Boston 22 
South Boston, / 22 
For Israelites, 31 
Blind, Aid for, 42 
Board: 
For Discharged Men Convicts, 61 
For Seamen and Families, 25 
For Swiss, 32 
For Young Workingwomen, 51 
Boarding Houses, Lists of, 113 
Books and Tracts, 33, 65, 84, 85, 87, 88, 90 
Burials : 
For all Classes, . 20, 22 
For Printers, 25 
For Scotch, 31 
For Swiss, 32 
Cemeteries 112 
Charity Work. (See Industrial Training and Charity Work.) 
Churches, Aid from, 93-109 
City Belief, 12 
City Scavengers, Complaints of, 13 
Classes for Instruction : (See also Industrial Training.) 
For Workingmen, 87 
For Young Men, 88, 89 
For Women, . 91 
For Newsboys and Bootblacks, 86 
Clothing : 
For Men,— 
Discharged Convicts, 61 
Seamen (and Families), 25 174 
INDEX TO KINDS OF AID. 
Clothing—Continued. PAGoo 
For Working Girls, 29 
For Children (Public School), 29 
For Both Sexes and All Ages,— 
All Classes,— 
Any part of Boston, 17, 13, 19, 22 
Charlestown, 
City Proper 22 
East Boston, 13, 22 
Highland District, |7 
Jamaica Plain, 1" 
Roxbury, 19 
r South Boston, 13, 22 
Belgians and French, 30 
Germans, ‘ qi 
Israelites, 31 
Italians, 31 
Scotch, 31 
Colleges, Schools, Libraries, and Museums, 30 
Colleges. (See Schools.) 
Complaints oe City Scavengers, . * • • 13 
Country Week, for Children, Adults, and Working Girls, 33 
Day Nurseries, "3 
Deaf and Dumb, Aid for, 43 
Diet Kitchens, 40 
Dispensaries (General Diseases of both Sexes), 41 
Dispensaries (For Special Classes and Diseases): 
For Women, Diseases of, 42 
For Women and Children, 42 
For Children, 42 
Dental Infirmary, 42 
Eye and Ear Infirmary, .42 
Dwellings for the Poor, Improved, 60 
Education : (See also Schools and Industrial.) 
Higher Branches, °2 
Moral, 90 
Musical, 
Theological, 90 
Educational and Religious, •. . • • 30 
Employment. (See Free Employment Bureaus, and Industrial Training and 
Charity Work.) 
Excursions for Children 29 
Flower and Fruit Missions, 46 
Food : (See also Meals.) 
For all Classes,— 
Any part of Boston, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22 
City Proper, 22 
East Boston, 22 
Jamaica Plain, 19 
Roxbury, 19 
South Boston, 22 
For Better Class of Americans,— 
City Proper, 1® 
East Boston, 13 
South Boston 13 
For Belgians, 30 
For French, 30 INDEX TO KINDS OF AID. 
175 
Food—Continued. page. 
For Germans, 
For Israelites, 
For Italians, 31 
For Protestants of Brighton, ’2O 
For Scotch, . 31 
Foreigners, Aid foe, 
Free Chapels, ! 85 
Free Employment Bureaus : 
For Men of all Classes, g 
For Convicts, 
For Disabled Soldiers, 
For Women, g 
For Children, ’5 
Free Nurses, 33 
Fuel : 
For all Classes,— 
Any part of Boston, ~ , 19, 20, 22 
Charlestown, 17, 18 
City Proper, 18, 19, 22 
East Boston, 
Jamaica Plain, 19 
Roxbury, 
South Boston, 18 22 
For Better Class of Americans,— 
City Proper, 
East Boston, .*lB 
South Boston, ! 18 
For Belgians, 
For French, 
For Germans, 30 
For Israelites, 31 
For Italians, 31 
For Scotch, 
For Widows, Residents of Charlestown, .* ! ! 28 
Furniture ; 
For all Classes,— 
City Proper, ' 22 
East Boston, .22 
South Boston, .22 
For Israelites, .31 
Government Aid, 12 
Groceries. (See Food.) 
Gymnasiums, 88 
Health Hints, 135 
Health, Public, 68 
Homes for Adults : 
For Men,— 
All Classes, 47 
Aged Americans, Residents of Boston, 48 
Intemperate, 64 
Seamen, 49 
Soldiers, Disabled Volunteer, 48 
For Women,— 
All Classes, 47 
Aged 51 
Aged Americans, 49, 50 176 
INDEX TO KINDS OF AID. 
Homes for Adults Continued. 
For Women—Continued. page. 
Aged Colored, 50 
Aged Protestant, 50 
Convalescents, 38 
Discharged Prisoners, 62 
Domestics, ... 53 
Fallen, 62 
Incurables, 38 
Intemperate, 61 
Nursing Mothers with Children, 52 
Servant Girls, 53 
Working, 51 
Young Working, 51 
For Both Sexes,— 
All Classes, 47, 52 
Aged, . • • • • • • 51 
Aged and Helpless, 51 
Cancer, 39 
Consumption, 39 
Deaf and Dumb, . 43 
Insane, 44 
Nervous Diseases, 40 
Scotch, 31 
Spinal Diseases, 40 
Homes for Children : 
For Boys,— 
All Classes, 51 
Orphan, 53 
Pauper, 47, 53 
Sentenced, 53, 63 
Truants, 63 
Wayward, 56 
For Girls,— 
Destitute, 54 
Pauper, . 47, 54 
Sentenced, • • 64 
For Both Sexes,— 
Abused 58 
Blind, 42 
Catholics, 58 
Colored, 60 
Convalescents, 57 
Deaf and Dumb, . 43 
Deserted, ' . 56 
Destitute, 56, 57, 58, 59 
Foundlings, 55 
Half-Orphans, 55 
Idiotic and Feeble-Minded, 44 
Incurables, 57 
Infants, 55 
Insane, 44 
Liable to be Sentenced, 64 
Mariners’ __ 57 
Orphans, 55, 56 
Reformatory, 63, 64 
Sentenced, 63 
Hospitals (General Diseases of Both Sexes), 34, 35 INDEX TO KINDS OE AID. 
177 
Hospitals (For Special Classes and Diseases) : page. 
For Seamen, 36 
For Women, diseases of, 37, 38 
Lying-in, 37 
Servant Girls (incurables) 37 
For Women and Children, 37 
Convalescents, 38 
Incurables, 38 
Seaside, 39 
For Children, 39 
For Both Sexes and all Ages, 
Cancer, . . 39 
Consumption, 39 
Insanity, . 44,45 
Nervous Diseases, 40 
Small-pox, 40 
Spinal Diseases, 40 
Humane, . 67 
Idiotic and Feeble-Minded, Aid for-, 44 
Improved Dwellings eor the Poor, 60 
Industrial, 5 
Industrial Training and Charity Work ; 
For Men,— 
All Classes, 6,7 
Blind, 
Convicts, 61 
For Women,— 
All Classes, . . • 7, 8, 9, 10 
Blind, 42 
Convicts, 61, 62 
Fallen, 62, 63 
Intemperate, 10 
For Children,— 
Blind, 42 
Boys, 6,7 
Girls, 9, 10, 11 
Infants’ Suits, 17 
Infirmaries : 
Dental, 42 
Eye and Ear, . 42 
Insane, Aid for, 44 
Instructive Collections, 83 
Laboratories, 80 
Lectures ; 
For Deaf Mutes, 43 
For Young Men, 88 
For Women, 91 
For all Classes 65, 81, 90 
Legal Advice for Working Women, 29, 91 
Legal Suggestions, 119 
Libraries : 
For Seamen, 87 
For Workingmen, • 87 
For Young Men, 88 
For Young Women, 92 
For Both Sexes (Public) 83 
Life-Saving, . 68 
Light, for all Classes, Jamaica Plain, 19 178 
INDEX TO KINDS OF AID. 
PAGE. 
Literature, Purification of, 66 
Loans : 
For all Classes, 18 
For Young Married Artificers, 25 
For M. E. Theological Students, 89 
For Belgians and French, 30 
For Swiss (to purchase tools), 32 
Lodgings. (See Night’s Lodging.) 
Lost Children Restored to Friends, 29 
Lunatic Hospitals and Asylums, 44 
Material for Clothing (for all Classes), 17 
Materials for Work (for Israelites), 31 
Meals : 
For all Classes,— 
Any part of Boston 21, 22, 52 
Charlestown, 17 
For Protestants of Brighton (during holidays), 24 
For Working Girls (dinners in winter), 29 
Medical Attendance: 
For all Classes, 41, 42 
For Israelites, 31 
For Italians, 31 
Medicines. (See Overseers of the Poor, and Dispensaries.) 
Military Aid 26 
Missionaries, 84 
Money (Often Given in Pensions.) 
For Men, 
Aged, 25 
Army and Navy Services, 26 
Clergymen, 
Meth. Epis 27 
Prot. Epis., 27 
Unitarian, 27 
Naval Seamen (disabled), 16 
Physicians, 74 
Police (and families), 25 
Seamen (and families), 25 
Soldiers (disabled), 16 
Theological Students, 
Protestant, ' 89 
Second Advent Converts, 90 
Unitarians, 90 
For Women,— 
American Nurses, 28 
Single (Residents of Boston), 28 
Widows, 
Of any Class, 28 
Of Baptist Clergymen, 27 
Of Cong. Clergymen, 28 
Of Meth. Epis. Clergymen, 27 
Of Prot. Epis. Clergymen, 28 
Of Residents of Boston, 28 
Working Girls, 29 
For Children, 
Orphans of Baptist Clergymen, 27 
Orphans of Cong. Clergymen, 28 
Orphans of Prot. Epis. Clergymen, 28 INDEX TO KINDS OF AID. 
179 
Money Continued. 
For Both Sexes and all Ages, page. 
For all Classes,— An __ 
Any part of Boston, . . 18, 20, 22 
Charlestown, „ 
City Proper, 18, 19, 22 
Dorchester, 21 
East Boston, . 18, 22 
Jamaica Plain, " 
Roxbury, 18-19 
South Boston, 18, 22 
For Better Class of Americans,— 
Any part of Boston, .21 
City Proper, 18 
East Boston, 18 
South Boston, . . . • . . 18 
Blind, 25 
Deaf and Dumb, 43 
Decayed Householders, • . . . . . . • • • 21 
For Foreigners, 
English, 30 
Germans, 30 
Israelites, 31 
Italians, - 31 
Scandinavians, 31 
Scotch, 31 
Swiss, 30 
Welsh, 32 
Sick, • . 28 
Suiferers by Fire, 21 
Museums, ... 83 
Mutual Benefit : 
For all Classes, 70 
For Special Classes and Foreigners, 71 
Needlework. (See Sewing.) 
Newspapers. (See Books and Tracts.) 
Night’s Lodging : 
For Men, 22 
For Women,— 
All Classes, 21, 51 
Aged Protestant, 50 
Discharged Prisoners, 62 
Domestics, 53 
Servant Girls, 53 
Working Women 29 
For Both Sexes (adults), 
All Classes, 52 
All Classes (Charlestown) 17 
Scotch, 31 
For Children, 
Boys, 51 
Both Sexes,— 
All Classes, 58 
Abused, 59 
Catholics, 58 
Foundlings, 55 
Half-Orphans, 55 
Nuisances, Abatement of, 13 180 
INDEX TO KINDS OF AID. 
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Nurseries, Day 58 
Nurses, Free, 33 
For Israelites, 31 
Parks and Squares, 110 
Pensions. (See Money.) 
Police, HO 
Prisons, 13, 15, 62 
Probation op Offenders, 61 
Protection : 
Of Animals, 67 
Of Children, 
Abused, ...... 67 
Deserted and Destitute, 53-60 
Lost, 67 
Orphan, 53-60 
Reading. (See Books and Tracts.) 
Reading-Rooms : 
For Men, 
Seamen, 37 
Unemployed, 37 
Working, 
Young, 88, 89 
For Women, 91, 92 
For Newsboys and Bootblacks, 86 
Public, 83 
Reform: 
For Adult Convicts, 61 
For Fallen Women, 62 
F’or Children, 63 
Relief for Special Classes, 24 
Relief, (General) ; 
For Seamen, 26 
For Women,— 
Aged Colored, 28 
Fallen, 28 
Servant Girls, 28 
For Children,— 
Of Mariners’ 29 
Working Girls (Single Protestant), 29 
For Both Sexes and all Ages, 23 
Better Class (South Boston), 24 
Blind, 42 
Foreigners,— 
Hollanders, 
Irish, 31 
Scandinavians, 31 
Musicians, , 
Sick, • •. • • • • 33,34 
Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines of Rebellion, or their Widows and Orphans, 26 
Relief, Various Kinds, Irrespective of Class, 17 
Rent : 
For all Classes,— 
Any part of Boston, }V“ 
City Proper, oo 
East Boston, 22 
South Boston, 22 INDEX TO KINDS OF AID. 
181 
Rent—Continued. 3q 
For Germans, 
Restaurants 34 
Rides for Invalids, 
Schools ; 
City>7, 8i 
1)63.1, ••••••••• 
Drawing, g^ 
Evening, 81 
Grammar, g^ 
High, ; . 81 
Latin, •••****** o. 
Licensed Minors, • • • • 
Normal 
Primary 
Cooking 
Dental, . 81 90 
Designing, ' 80,’ 82,’ 90 
Drawing, «9 
Higher Branches, . or- 
Nurses, Training School for, 30> 30» 38 
Reformatory,— 
For Boys,— 
Sentenced, 88 
Truant, 63 
For Girls,— 
Sentenced, b3> b4 
For Boys and Girls,— 
Liable to Sentence, 04 
Sentenced, 63 
Sewing, •••••••. 
State,— (See also above, under Reformatory.) 
Deaf and Dumb, -J3 
Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Youth, 44 
Normal, • °0 
Normal Art, 
Primary Training, 31 
Telegraphy for Women, yb 
Sewing, ,S,M 
Shoes; 
For all Classes,— 
Any part of Boston, • id oo 
City Proper, “ 
East Boston, 
South Boston, 
Sick and Defective, • * 33 
Soup for all Classes, . . . • 
State Aid for Disabled Soldiers and Naval Seamen, 
State Relief, 3 
Stretchers 
Temperance Meetings, 83 
Temperance Reform, b4 
Temporary Homes. (See Homes.) 
Tools, for Discharged Men Convicts, si 
Tract Societies,—. . 84 
Tracts. (See Books and Tracts.) 182 
INDEX TO KINDS OF AID. 
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For Men,— 
Discharged Convicts, gi 
Soldiers, disabled, g 
For Working Girls, . . . " ' on 
For Both Sexes,— 
For all Classes,— 
From any part of Boston, 20 
City Proper, 22 
East Boston, 22 
South Boston, 22 
Germans, 30 
Scandinavians, ! ! ! 31 
Scotch, 3i 
Swiss 32 
Tuition. (See also Schools), 22 
United States Aid 15 
Vaccination and Re-Vaccination, 69 
Wooden Legs, 35 
Wood-Sawing, ! g 
Woke. (See Free Employment Bureaus and Industrial.)