El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-01-24
HOW NOMAN's
CHARITY WORKS
Organization Knows No
Limitations Except That
of Funds to Work With.

Answering many inquiries as to the
departments of work being carried on
under the WOman's Charity association,
and the various channels of outlay, The
Herald has prepared this brief sum-
mary for public information:
The work of the Woman's Charity as
ISOLATION is organized in the following
departments and divisions;
/. General relief:
a. Aims giving;
b. Division of investigation and
case records;
c. District nurse;
d Free employment bureau;
e. Financial aid to Salvation
Army woodward.
(NOte-The WOman'S Charity never
gives money to an applicant for relief
but instantly investigates the need and
then provides food, clothing, fuel, bed
ding, medicine, employment, or what
ever other aid may be needed; the
aged, the bed ridden, the sick and dis
tressed, widows and abandoned wives,
and children in trouble, receive the first
attention There is constant effort to
avoid any act that might encourage
pauperism, while a the same time the
hand OF the Charity is instantly eX-
tended to help the deserving. The Dis
trict Nurse goes into the homes OF the
people teaching sewing, carpentry,
cooking and decent living. She teaches
baby tending, nursing, and infant feed
ing, and shows the mothers of the very
poor how to battle their children and
care for them to keep them we'll The
District Nurse also attends Dispensary
days at the public free clinic, follows
up cases when asked by physicians to
do so, teaches mothers how to follow
the orders of the physicians and brings
babies to the hOspitaL)
2. tuberculosis:
A visiting nurse keeps in touch
with tuberculosis sufferers,
visits the poor families among
the health seekers, furnishes
clothing. bedding and fire, pre-
DareS special food for the bed
ridden, cares for the very lone
", supplies medicine, reports
needy cases to physicians and
to the Woman's Charity. This
department also conducts a tu-
berculosis clinic.
3. Charity Home:
q Relief, giving meals in re-
turn for work;
b. Laundry, fully equipped,
where women of the poor
are taught fine laundry work
and given breakfast lunch
con, and soc per day.
4. Baby Hospital:
a. Free hospital for babies and
children.
b. Temporary and only home
for crippled and defective
children;
C. Temporary and only home
for lost children;
d. Temporary and only home
for delinquent children; Tex
as provides no place but the
1dllS Tor QellQQueQL girl chill
dren, and no other charitable
agency in Ell Paso offers
refuge to them;
e. Temporary rescue home
the only home in FL Paso
that is open to unfortunate
girls and women;
Z Temporary home for preg-
nant women;
g. Maternity house for poor
mothers;
h ChiIdren's nursery, every
day of the week, including
SUNDAYS and nights; no 9th
er nursery provides care on
Sundays and nights;
women;
J. Free baths for children.
Neither the city nor county of FL Paso
provides any fit place to receive or
care for sick or poor women and chill
dren. The Woman's Charity eXerts ev-
cry effort to make all applicants for
relief self supporting as soon as pos
sible, and to create such conditions as
to make recurrent calls unnecessary.
Charity Headquarters.
The Woman's Charity association
maintains an office in the county
courthouse. and also maintains Char
lty Home and Baby Hospital at 4O5
South Campbell street which has been
fitted up on modern hospital and set
Element plans and is in the care of a
staff of physicians, nurses, and neces-
sary attendants.
Employed Force.
The employed force of the Woman's
Charity includes a director of relief
work, a keeper of books and case
records, a district nurse, a tuberculosis
visiting nurse, a cook, a laundress and
assistant, and three hospital nurses for
the Baby Hospital Ga day nurse night
nurse. and aSsistant). None of the ad-
ministrative officers of the Charity re-
ceive any compensation.
Charity Clearing House.
Through the complete system of
Case Records, the Woman's Charity
headquarters is able at any time to re-
port upon the WOrthiness of any appli-
cant for relief. and il will investigate
any case called to its attention, and