Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-20
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IHE ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING THE CONDITION
OF THE PooR.-A stated meeting of this association
was held last evening at their rooms on Fayette
street. The President. Jesse Hunt, ESQ., was in the
chair. The Secretary, Mr.. L. D. Brashears present
ed and read his summary of agents for the past
month; that in the rst district the families relieved
562; number in families 1888 number of visits
5S2 money expended, $l.624; including 9l2 cords of
wood and 50 tons of coal. Second District-Familes
relieved, 56S; number n iemiles, 203l; number of
visits, 15Z, amount expended, S5y6.S0: including 81
cords OF wood and Y tons Of coal. Third District
families relieved, 5S3; number in families 6S7 NUM-
ber OF visits, 596 amount expended, 81, $500: in
Guiding Il cords of wood aad tS3 tons of COAL
fOuTth ooo numoer IN families All,
number OF visits 200, amount expended 81 7l253 in
clGding 915a cords Of wood 6923 tOas OF coal, The
whole number of families relieved 2,il9, number in
families 1879, visits made 2,G70, amount extended
649.70 including 927 corts of wood and 2I7IT tons
OF coal. They also sent boys and girls to public
s;Gn0ol; found employment for I men, Women and
children. Those relieved were divided among the
4uereht TehglouS GeT5uasi9ns as follows Baptist 49,
Epse9pa %, Presbyterian a. Catholic 534, Methodist
22O Lutheran a. and 4l4 of no church l,l62 of the
Whole NUMBER were Americans 0ll foreigners anu 4+6
colored. ''
The report o{ John " Randolph. treasurer. shows
balance on hand, Feb. 18TH Of s., ,363. 81. Amount
received from wards $291704; through the secretary
Si3.5 through the president, 1928: from C. L.. Oud
esluyS OF the special committee. So OO0 coal S rent
OF office, SS; over draft lst district $6lS7. Total
amount. SIS. 72O.47. The disbursements made were;
Salaries $40 office expenditures 3 apprcp,idtions
GlpoOl4s SPcoN, III ,OSb.SU; third
district, 81 35s.2 tOu!tn do. Sl58.67: advertising
Szii worthless notes. So; amounting So 81; leaV
ing balance Oh hand Of S6.J96.66 The finance com
mltee next made their report Stain, tnat The ac-
counts Of the agents were S.l correct.
The President hsio stated that tne Lenschow Anna
telI orchestra had reported $55S92 as the amount
Ieai!zeq from concert given for the benefit Of the
poor; also that ne had received a donation Of 500
from, William a. Bowen. On motion. resolution of
ira, and the Independent Blues Band, VINO aided
the concert above referred to. D
The Secretary called the. roll of wards, some Of
%nfGn sntd were iGporeG as completed their col
ectlons' Ehlle "tntCcrs still required more time on
account q unavoidable delays, &c
An appropriation of 800 ~ each of the four dis
for the entire city.
Az additional appropriation of 500 for the month
OF March,Was made to the fourth district.
SomaunlSauon HliI was received from the North
ing the association TO furnish wood to said society for
1aml5les already supplied by them with bread the
quest After considerable debate the request was not
acceded to as made but upon motion it was resolved
10 lurnSh the ABOVE society With the amount of wood
named, and receive the money for the same as do
nation to the Poor Association
After the transaction of some further business of no
general interest the association adjourned.
REPORT OF THE HEALTH CoMussIoNER.-Thereport
of DR.. Morgan Health Commissioner. for the week
ending yesterday morning. shows the mortality of the
city for the past week to have been 90. Of these
2were caused BY cancer by casualty, 2 by concus-
sion of the brain, 10 by consumption, by convul-
sions. 8 by Group, by dropsy, by dropsy in the
| head by drowning, by diptheria, by catarrhal
fever, by scarlet fever, by typhoid fever, ! by
inflammation of the brain, by Inflammation of the
lungs by measles, by old age by organic disease
of the heart by palsy, by teething by violence
by whooping cough; i unknown adult, II unknown
infante. and still births % of the deceased were
under year of age, between l and years. 9 be-
tween and years, between and 10 years, be-
tween 10 and Is years. between 10 and 20 years,
between % and 5ayears. II between 30 and 90 years.
between 40 and 50 years. between so and 60 years.
between 80 and 70 years, between so and 80 years
while two lived to the mature of between 80 and
100 years. 81 Of the deceased males and Al fe
males; Is of the whole number were oolored persons
| In comparison with the mortality of other years
| there appears to have been the same number o.
deaths the past week in the corresponding week
last year. "a less than in the same week of 1864 anG
| Il less than in the corresponding week 1868.
| PREsENTATIoN.-Rev. D. Evans Reese, President
OF the Faculty of Instruction of the Maryland An.
nual Conference College of the Methodist Protestan
Church, was yesterday the recipient of handsome
gold pen and pencil. from the students of the frs
class under his care, token of their appreciation
OF the eaoraeneSs and cearness of his explanations
of the difficult portions of their theological studies
| The presentation was made by Rev. L. w. Bates OF
behalf of the students, to which the President nap
PLY responded,