Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-10-20
Report of Secretary Shows
How Charity Dispensed
and People Helped to
Help Themselves.

The annual report of Miss Julia
Houston, secretary of the Associated
Charities, which was read by Miss
Houston at the annual meeting of the
organization last night, contains q
mass of interesting and valuable IN
formation as to the work of the Or
ganization during the year just clos
ed, and includes statistics that will
be found of value to the student If
sociological affairs.
The report, while voluminous, is
nevertheless succinct and brief. in
it's relations of details, it's size being
large only because Of the very great
amount of matters which Miss Hous
ton was compelled to mention
Many Are Assisted.
During the year, according to the
report, $40 persons were aided. They
needed help because 1914 were i'll, 229
we're unemployed, So were widows ana
deserted mothers, al we're physically
handicapped, 277 were young chill
dren, Y were more than so years CT
age. and 16 had tuberculosis.
Of the ill. many had malaria, a few
had pellagra and hookworm, some
were feeble-minded, many were so
undernourished as to be unfit for
work, and some belonsed to families
whose wage earnerS were alcoholics
or drug users, insane OF in prison.
Assistance was given in a variety
of ways, among them the following:
Doctors and medicine were provld
ed for 1S9 sick persons; p persons
were placed in hospital ten surgi-
cal operations were performed free,
tie total cost of which would have
been about $1,700; jobs were foun1
for 123 persons; IS children We're
equipped with books AID clothing and
placed in school; % children and
young girls were placed in better
homes; "a persons were placed N
institutions for special care; $94. 40
was provided for TRANSPORTATION OF
tuherculars to the Bonneville SAM
tarium, gave four tuberculars specla
diet and sent one tubercular to a
better climate; 60 persons were given
TRANSPORTATION to homes and rela-
tives: ten families were moved 10
better and more moral surroundings;
IA families were provided with free
ice during the summer; % babies an
small children were given pure mllh
daily thru the summer; 391 grocery
orders were sent out, in addition 70
clothing, drugs, paying OF house REM
and countless articles from the free
store room; and bedding and SICK
room supplies were loaned from the
free loan linen closet.
The Financial Statement.
President H. |. Holderness and MISS
Julia Houston, the secretary, TAX"
much pride in the fact that despite
the heavy demands upon the organ
ization the past year, there is a cash
balance on hand At the close OF TIE
YEAR. and at the same time the organ
ization's store room is better equip
ped at the opening Of a year than IT
has ever been. -.
The statement of receipts and dis
bursements is as follows:
Observation-Disclosures on hand OCTOBER
/, 1915, S2OS37; subscriptions col
lected, 1929: collections on ola
pledges. s44.75; miscellaneous re-
CENTS. $1O.25: special funds collect
ed for individual cases, $1l9.o5: to1ai
receipts. $3,731.40. oo,
Disbursements-For relief, S2,25z.-
". SdldElCS III lNO wv >~''--
months s1,215; salary of collector
sos; salary of extra help, $S.oo: re-
modelling new Office. etc. Seo.4z )
printing and stationery. $3.50; posi-,
age. s17.49; incidentals. $3.50; total
disbursements. $3,7O1.76.
Balance on hand Oct. l, 1916, $29.-
g..
Special Fund Accounts.
Reports of the financial condition
ut the several special funds, are as
follows:
Anti-Tuberculosis fund-On hand
Oct. /. 1915. 5000; receipts from
sale of Red Cross seals. $1o3.70; to-
tai receipts. STA; disbursements,
$94.45: balance Oct. I, 1916. $500.
In this fund. a check for $2.32 has
been outstanding for more than
year. without being presented FOR
payment, making the amount actual
ly on hand in the fund $S2.07.
Milk fund-Total receipts, $500;
disbursements, $1,000; balance Oct. l.
1916, $1,000.