New Britain herald., 1916-09-14

visiting nurses, milk station nurses, probation officers, will all testify to the need of day nursery of that sort. There is no charity more appealing than that for little children and there is no charity more impressive or more likely to be abused and misconducted than a day nursery. With the present public sentiment toward infantile paralysis, this would hardly be the time for launching such an affair, but concrete instances show the real need for something of the sort, carefully and conservatively conducted. Would it not be well to have our plans all ready to use when the time is ripe
 A mothers care is too precious to be lightly taken from her children We find it is usually the boys and girls whose mothers and fathers are too indifferent or overburdened with work who get into disgrace. In helping the families of widows with several or many small children, we always try to keep the family together and keep the mother at home with her children as much as possible. And yet it seems 10 give the mothers a feeling of inde- rendence to earn a little mone1r that is all their own, by an occasional days work. Others of them deliberately find places in the factories because of the excitement of being out in the world. And it appears that some mothers who do not need charity at all, go to work for the extra money it will bring, so that we sometimes hear stories or little children being locked i'll Tor several hours while older broth CTS ana sisters are in school. If these rothefs are forced or are merely n2lnded to go to work, then if we can not change the situatio we must pro- vide for their children.
 During the past three months there have been 793 requests for our serv- ices these requests coming by mail, by telephone and by personal application. Thirty-three have come from public officials, twenty-two from private so- cieties, ten from churches. I'll from interested individuals, eleven from other cities, three from schools, and 454 from appicats themselves Of these 4o4, seVenty-fiVc came for ad- vice, slXty-t1Ve for cIothing two for loans, thlrty-slX asked us to help them find better work, four appealed for transportation, ninety-six asked for material relief, and 165 requested some sort of friendly service.
 7SS Cells ct Office.
 There were 7SS calls at the office | 454 from applicants and 334 from in terested individuals. Two hundred 1 and sixty-nine visits in the hc,nes were made by the agent and assistant ! There were 6S9 important telephone | Interviews and we were aided by | twelve hours of VOluteer' office work 1 Permanent work was procured for | tWenty-One and temporary work for ] ten. Transportation was provided for two, optical aid for three, dental Care for two, medical care for seven, legal aid for one, and institutional care for two. Twenty three families have received temporary weekly aid and thirty-tWo have had help in emer- gencies.
 In the matter of material relief $177.32 was expended from the treas- urer's fund and $92.23 from the agents special fund. $169.95 was or vantzed by the charity organization x o~l1ers, the bills being paid by inter- c~tcd people, and in June $10 was ox- pended from the cpccial shoe fund, IT. alzing a total of $429.50 for relief through charity organization channels during the summer months.