Morning journal and courier., 1892-05-25
THE LEILA DAY NURSERY.

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 THE LEILA DAY NURSERY. The Reports of the Work Done Dur
 Ing the Year. The annual meeting of the Leila Day | nursery and Mothers Aid society was held yesterday afternoon at the residence l of Mrs. J. B. Sargent.
 In the report of the secretary, Mrs. G. B. Adams, was the following:
 The statistics for the year beginning with May 1, 1891, and closing with May 1, 1899, are as follows:
 Whole number of children received, COTS, which is an increase of ,431 over last year; daily average attendance 194, individual children 120, families repre- sented 75 Qast year 55), largest number of children in one day 400, smallest n umber, youngest child received two months.
 The little ones have had their usual holidays beginning with that provided by MT. and Mrs. H. T. Cause of Wilmington, Delaware. A day spent at the shore and followed by Thanksgiving and Christmas; when everything that could be done was done to make them happy.
 The question of taking up the work of
 
 nurses has been considered by the mana gers, also the holding of meetings for the mothers, at which there shall be informal talks on health, cure of their children, cooking and kindred subjects. These hings are done in connection with day nursery work in other places with marked | success, and we hope that some time it l may be done in our day nursery. In many ways and by small gifts and h oh1 oa fo little to the sum given for new nursery, and in the fall we propose to start such g branch in some needy part of the city if we receive sufficient encouragement from our friends. We know that there are many calls upon all charitably inclined people in New Haven, yet the fact that more places are needed for the care of our poor children is so apparent that we venture to plead for them, though it does not seem necessary that we should repeat reasons for establishing another nursery; | in fact, the extension seems so much need- 1 ed that we feel sure it cannot help coming. l Surely no work for the poor touches our | hearts like that for the children. And all l though our own history in the work is too short, perhaps, to estimate the lasting in huence on child brought up in nursery, yet the statistics of such work in other places testifes to this-showing in one I up in their nursery has ever been arrested for crime, strong testi- mony certainly. And the influence on the children must, if only indirectly, influence the parents. In looking over our own re- ports for past years, we find instances cor roborating this fact. So we feel very sure that our friends will agree with us that something more ought to be done, if they will think of the value of help given at tho yi~ <r,y ko n1ok | days spent at the nursery mean for the children, how they are giveu there what is lacking in their homes, and that any per manent improvement in the condition of the poor must begin with the children.
 With many thanks to our attending physician, to the press and to all who have in any way helped us in the years work, we close our report for 1892.
 The report of the intelligence depart ment by Josephine c. GriAing was as fol- lows: As it becomes generally understood that reliable women can be obtained at the nursery for housekeeping, washing and ironing, the number of days work for them greatly increases. Eight hundred and fourteen more days work have been given to the women during the year just passed than in the preceding year. Many of the mothers have said that it is only through the combined help of the l AuLooIJ AOA UA0AI CulluTcu duU Luo WOTA obtained through it for themselves that they have been able to keep their families to- gether. Days work given during the year are August, 21911; September, Z2s15; October, 3O5; l November 23l | December, 2301a; January, 1892 2s3E >S'
 Tho report of the treasurer, Miss Mary B. Bris- tol, showed that $5, 900 had been collected pro- used as an additional nursery It will be neces- sary to raise bstween $1 2G0 and $1 800 run it's l nursery for @ year before the new institution is l opened, and of this sum S450 has already been l raised.
 OFFICERS ELECTED.
 Officers were elected as follows:
 President-Mrs. S. Hartwell Chapman, 193 Church street.
 l street.
 l Executive committee-Mrs. George P. Lines 20 Lyon street; Mrs. Arthur Nj. Wheeler, ,S6 Trum- bull street; Mrs. Talcott H Russell, 213 Wooster ] street; Mrs. Samuel D. Gilbert, 29 Wall street; Miss Josephine Grifing, t4a Chapel street; Mrs Henry L. Hotchkiss, 55 Rillhouse avenue; Miss Frank H. Whittemore, PA Orange street; Mrs. Henry F. English, Hllhouse avenue; Miss Anna Beach, 4A Chapel street; Mrs. A. w Whitcomb 1 l2 Academy street; Miss Helen Baldwin, A Wali street; Mrs. J. B. Sargent, hurch street; Miss Ethel stoddard, S67 Prospect street; Mrs. George
 Treasurer-Miss Mary B. Bristol, 65 Elm street.
 Secretary-Mrs. George B. Adams, 77 Elm l street.
 Physician-Dr. Gustavus Eliot, Church street.
 Auditor-Charles s. DeForest.
 Finance committeeoE. Hayes Trowbridge, Brewster Fitch.
 MatrOn-Mrs. F. J, Baker.