The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-10-26

j;oF zODT-DOoR H00R--y VALUABLE lHFORhA-
TIoS.--The Joint Committee for the Relief
of the Poor of the City Council has Just is-
sued q circular giving some valuable in-
formation In relation TO. the City Almshouse
and Department OF Out-D Door Poor, under
the control OF the Committee for Relief OF
the Poor, together with q statement OF the
location of city dispensaries, dc. t}tf41
The Committee for the Relief Of the Poor,
appointed In July, 1876, is compo osed of the
following members L. Wagner, chairman |,
place of business, 529 east. Broad street; !;
residence, 802 east Leigh street. M. u.
Straus, place OF business, 513 east Broad
street; residence, 90 east Marshall street.
W.a q: Williams, places OF business, 241s
east Broad street !. residence, 1903 east
Broad street. j. NJ. Talbot, place Of busi-
ness, at residence; |; residence, 108 north
Ninth street. J. NJ. Higgins, place Of busi-
ness, 1910 east Franklin street; :; residence,
2F3 north Nineteenth street. Henry Metz
ger, place of b.!s!Eess,1 11S1! east Cary street; !;
residence, $40 north Twenty-ninth street.
Nv. Pickrell, place Of business, 313 south
Ninth street; residence, 211 west franklin
street. :1.s's .sysl, S ,s,s3l lsy7,t3
The committee meets at the almshouse in
the eiafternoon on the second Tuesday OF each
month. Permits to be received into the aims
house given by members OF committee.
Visitors to inmates OF the almseolise are
admitted only ON Wednesdays and Sundays
from A. NJ. to 10 A., and from to 6 =.
Al. Citizens or strangers wishing to look
through the institution are admitted daily,
from 10 a. N. to 6 p. NJ. se..tes. /,
| Special arrangements will be made by the
superintendent for ministers OF others de-
string to hold religious services. s.....E.,ttsl !
| The city ambulance, with physician and
appliances, for the relief Of INDECENT persons
sick or injured upon the streets, can be
called from tho following stations: Office
Chief Of Police; First police-station Second
police-station Third .police-station Auto
matte Telegraph Company, No. 1910 east
Main street; Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
depot; Richmond. Fredericksburg, and Po-
tomac Railroad dep0t;, Richmond and Pc
tersburg Railroad depot; Richmond, York
River and Chesapeake Railroad, depot;
Richmond and Danville Railroad depot;
Old Dominion Steamship Company, Rock
etts; Leroy j. Grant e Co., No. Ii north
Nineteenth street; Metropolitan Iron
Works, Seventh between Cary and Canal
streets G. c.. VOLTS saloon, No. 900 east
Broad street; Lawrence Lottier, corner
Nineteenth and Franklin streets; engine
house Company F, Twenty-ffth street near
Broad; w. D. Blair Il Co., No. 903 east
Main street; Smith u Rady, No. 1919 east
Main street; Scott & Clarke, No. south
[Twenty-tirst street. -. 4,.,.us.....,,...t.
Application for outdoor charity Except
medicaD will be made to the superintend-
ent. ~ .u.
Department of Outdoor Poor, Office City
Almshouse: This department is charged
with the distribution Of rations, fuel, medi-
cines, and burial OF the INDECENT outside OF
| the almshouse. a ..
Rations: at this time the only ration
given is corn meal, issued as follows
Thursdays, to whites; Fridays, to colored.
Fuel is allowed in cold weather only.
Every applicant must answer satisfactorily
all questions contained in the descriptive
list. .,1....
The office is opened during the months OF
November, December, January, February,
and March Sundays excepted): Whites,
from A. M. to P. NJ; colored, from P.
NJ. to 6P. M. And during the months OF
April, May, June, July, August, September,
and October: Whites, Thursdays, from 10
to II a. NJ; colored, Fridays, from 10 to
II A. NJ.
All applicants are required to call in per-
son unless disabled. in which event an agent
will visit them. Persons receiving fuel
must pay transportation. .F = 49,. ..-ry.---
The dispensaries are located as follows
+W. w. Wake & Co., No. 800 west Cary
tstreet; Il. B. Thomas, No. 214 east Broad
street; +Judson Cunningham, agent, 2027
east Main street.; &C. E. Morrison q Co.,
No. 2517 east Broad. street; tMedical Col.
lege, corner Fourteenth and Marshall
streets. Vaccination performed free at the
almshouse dispensary.
The following are the members OF the
Board of Health and coroners OF the city OF
Richmond, and the members of the Board
and Quarantine Officers: j. G. Cabell, NJ. D.,
president, office at residence, Iii east Grace
street; William II. Taylor. NJ. d., office at
residence, 1913 east Broad street; +. ID.
Cunningham, NJ. d., office atresidence, TIT
east Franklin street. Coroners: William
H. Taylor. NJ. D., Office at residence, 1918
east Broad street; Christopher Tompkins,
u. D., Office at residence, POI east Franklin
street. .:...,5 -..
This information is very useful and well
worth preserving. ,,sa5 ..a..
#Medicines furnished upon physicians prescrip,,
tions endorsed INDECENT" and len cents charged
/ for each prescription compounded.
Medical advice and medicines furnished free.
UNITED STATES CIRCUIT CoURT.-Judge
Hugh L. Bond presided in this court yes
terday. l..
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