New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-10-10
CHARITY WORKERS
YEARLY REPORTS
Organization Has Rendered Ex-
Cellent Service During Past Year

The annual report of the New Brit
ain Charity Organization was present.
ed to the the directors at last nights
meeting. This report shows the ex-
tensive work that has been carried on
during the year and the pertinent OBJ
servations made by the workers. The
report follows:
stop, look, 1isten!' After more
than a year at war how does the bal
! ance hang? At this time it is quite
! necessary for US to contemplate on our
! gains and our losses,--to consider
| again our responsibilities. Just how
has the war affected our organization
| In the first place, never before has
! the work of Organized Charity been so
we'll understood. Never before have
! methods ben SO widely accepted and
used. Red Cross Home Service is
! mainly responsible for this and now
| thousands are using the methods and
| principles Of Charity Organization So
! cieties.
The War Risk Insurance Bureau
| has recognized the value of such
| methods and has asked the Organized
| Charity workers in different parts of
| the country to volunteer for one visit
! week in their behalf. This provides
| the Bureau with trained visitors eff
cient in family welfare work. We,
| in the desire to serve, are happy to re-
| spond and add this bit to our regular
| duties.
| Like wildfire has that desire to
| serve spread throughout our country
| What a wonderful development in q
| short time. Not only individuals, who
! heretofore have thought only of their
| own gains and pleasures, are engaged
in war work, but there is a great
! growth of community spirit, a great
| common desire to serve,-a spirit
| which must result in a marked i'm
provement in our community morale.
! From the results Of the compulsory
! physical examination of our drafted
| men, what work has already been
begun for the betterment Of health in
| general How our eyes have been
J opened to existing conditions and how
we have been forced to face them.
How Public Health agents are advance
ing in order to not only combat with
! disease but to prevent it. In New
britain the knowledge for conserving
!
| of Health, by our schools, by the work
of our Visiting Nurses, by the Baby
| Welfare Station, and by our newly
! organized Tuberculosis Clinic. Be
fore another year comes we hope to
have the beginning of a Dental Clinic
established to aid in the conserving of
the future health of our children.
Dozens of babies, instead of bein g
left neglected at home or placed in
the care OF inadequate neighborS or
other children, while the mother
works. are properly housed, fed and
entertained at the new Day Nursery.
The day has come, with the increa Sc
! of War industries, with tho lack of
| constant increase in immigration to
which New Britain has been accus-
toned, when additional workers in the
: local factories are necessary. Thus
! have mothers found by means of the
Day Nursery supported by the fac
tories, an opportunity to add to the
funds needfuI for the upkeep of the
| home
! Social workers feel that while WON
en- will be more and more called upon
to help in industry. all possible en-
! phasis should be placed on hiring
those who. can best DE spared from
the homes. AS yet we have no proof
of increased Juvenile delinquency il
this city or in this part of the coun.
try. This danger must be guarded
against rs we'll as any tendency to.
ward diSsolving family unit.
Our community with its newly ere
ated office of School Visitor has still
one more means of lettering HON,
5 conditions in relation to school attend
ance. Whereas the New Britain
Charity Organization cheerfullv an
S swered requests heretofore from vari
Gus school principals and truant Off
GER to investigate home conditions
! better results can now be obtained b-
/ having full time officer for tina
! special work and our cooperation i
0 freely offered.
The man who chooses to neglect hi
part of supporting the family is quick
I ly dealt with these days with we'll pay
ing employmentcalling to him from al
sides. And the chronic deserter VIII
has come home once more, in orde
to claim exemption because of ode
20 pendent" wife, is cheerfully hustle
- into service. Then, for once in he
4 married life his better half receive
\ regular support.
n Almost never does the warrant fin
n it possible to obtain aims for the ask
ing and scant indeed should be tn
sympathy doled out to the one arme
N or one legged beggar who sits at tn
corner with his dozen lead pencils. al
ready our injured soldiers are demon
81 strating what man can do whe
manned, and any citizen minus a lie
n can, by means of crutches at sma,
N cost, find his way regularly to our fac
tories and with a pair OF norma
q hands find sufficient employment t
81 support his family. To be sure it ha
4 been proved that a tidy sum can b