Arizona republican., 1914-11-26
1900 PEOPLE LOOKED AFTER
 BY CHAR|TkES
Annual Report of Miss Gil christ, Superintendent of Associated Charities, Pre- scnts Many Matters of Great Interest.

l looked after during the year just passed by the Associated Charities of this city, and in doing this several thousand dol lars were expended and several car | loads of clothes and food given away. 1 The organization has just completed what is regarded by some as the most interesting and greatest years work in it's history. The annual report of Miss Gilchrist, superintendent of the organi- zation. is printed herewith and con tains many matters of interest and vii i tai importance.
 Beginning d new fiscal year. Novem- Der the Fifth, the Associated Charities effected a complete reorganization. A ! board of fifteen directors was chosen, 1 in accordance with the new cOnstitu- | tion:
 For three years. E. w. Lewis, P. T. Slayback. Roy S Goodrich, Walter Ben nett and Bishop J. w. Atwood;
 For two years, H. P. Greene, H. A.. Diehl, w. c. Gillespie, Misses Jean Tel | ford and Helen Armstrong;
 For one year, Mesdames F. A. Nc Crary, F. C. Struckmeyer and Stanford Collier, Miss Edith Evans and H. D.. Marshall
 Officers: President. F. w. Lewis; first vice president, Walter Bennett; second vice president, Miss Edith Evans; superintendent and register, l Miss Christianna c. Gilchrist. 1 The office report for the past eighteen months from April first. 1913 ! ,ln, shows 1DN h. I plications for aid, 34 carried over from the previous year, 36 resumed after a former brief aid, 40 children cared for in the detention home, aside from county charges. 4S in MaricOpa hospi- tai. tubercular, besides patients sent out by the charities. 61 cases investi- 1 gated for other cities. making total of 94S applications. Of these applica- tions, 197 were for families, numbering persons aided, 1852.
 The work of the office covers trans portation and reduced rates secured for some 800 individuals, including these | in 70 families and a number of county cases, medical aid or medicines only, or clothing, or groceries to an amount not 1 exceeding s to 320 persons, 220 dis missed being self supporting, have been assisted to start in small busi- ness, licenses secured for :, s opera tions carried through. Two thousand garments have been given out, work found for 100, gardens started in va cant lots. Only have been found un- worthy of aid.
 Maricopa tuberculosis hospital, un- der the care of the charities until Feb ruary l, the county furnishing the sup plies, the charities the attendance.
 A similar arrangement existed in the Detention Home until the same date, when the county supervisors found themselves in position to take full control of both institutions.
 A most important development of the work is the more thorough system of visiting. following up" cases. This is largely the outcome of the assistance of the Friendly Visitors association. a band of energetic, clear minded young women This association furnished the 1 Christmas cheer for both the hospital and the day nursery and Detention Home.
 Attention should be given to the 1 great drain that transportation is mak- ing upon the whole community. Proper legislation should be secured to control this matter.
 In 1910, 63 per cent of all applicants for aid were tuberculosis suffers Now the proportion is scarcely 49 per cent, | or 456 from total of 94S.
 The correspondence has averaged five letters the day and ten to fifteen night letter telegrams the month By | this means, there have been secured from the outside of Phoenix eight re- turn tickets, permanent support for three sick men, $500 in railroad fares and travelling expense and the more i'm portant facts of reconciliation between wanderers and their long neglected home people.
 One man of eighty received from his family through the charities, the first message in thirty five years Another man was induced to return to the home | and the mother he had not seen for 20 years, a journey of 2500 miles by land and 5000 by water.
 Another foreigner. cut off from all resources at home by the European war has just been received into a sana : tarium conducted by his countrymen This correspondence has reached three | towns in Wales, two in France, one in