The border vidette., 1923-07-14
COMMEMORATE WORK
Associated Charities Report for First
Half Of This Year.


Showing that the Associated
Charities of Nogales continues
to do good work, Secretary O.
A. Smith has submitted the fol.
lowing report to the Board of
Directors:
For various reasons we have
not been able to hold a meeting
since the beginning of the new
year. Therefore, our report will
cover the period of the half year
just passed, and while it is pro
bably true that more could have
been done, and no doubt we did
not do all that was to be done,
nevertheless we feel that we
have really been working on a
big task, and we hope that our
report will lead you to feel that
we have been working at it 10 a
small way.
We. have to record our thanks
for the liberal subscriptions
made to the work this year.
Knowing the financial condition
of the city, I was fearful that
there would be heavy decrease
in subscribers and also in the
amount subscribed, but in this I
was mistaken. Some old sub
scribers it is true found it neces
sary to lower their subscriptions
and few failed to subscribe at
all, but in the main we received
practically the same amount
from the old subscribers as last
year and we have also few new
ones. If we secure the amount
of special gifts in proportion to
last year we will probably be
able to meet all of the critical
cases. Our overhead expenses
are some heavier than last year
on account of rent and tele.
phone. We pay SIS per month
for our Offices and $4.00 for the
telephone and a small light bill.
Monthly subscriptions are
coming in. now at the rate of
$328.O6. We have received to
date in cash donations $500 81.
Aside from this we have receiv.
ed some donations of clothing and
other goods to meet the most of
our calls in that direction.
It is proper that we should
record our than ks to the Finance
Committee and the solicitors
who made the good record,
above, possible.
1T will be noticed in our tab.
ulated report that we have had
many heavy bills to meet in med
ical work. The doctors have
worked heroically and the Sis.
ters of Mercy have made US
special rates for our patients,
and in addition given many
weeks of room and board to some
cases in which doctors, hospital
and the Associated Charities all
shared in the work and the ex-
penses.
This good work and splendid
co operation has served to make
our work much more effective
than ever before and we are very
grateful indeed for the fine spirit
they have shown, and the great
interest taken in this great work.
I must mention at this time
the fine co operation of Chaplain
A. G. Carter of Camp Stephen
D. Little, and the 25th Infantry.
In our colored cases he has been
very helpful in supplying, some
times all the needs of the case
and at other times to the full
extent of his ability. You will
realize no doubt what this means
when colored people come to us
who have to be cared for in
every way.
"The following is a tabulated
report of our efforts during the
past six months:
Transportation, -28; doctors
calls, 200; deaths, 10; births, 4;
orders on drug store, 149; days
CT hospital service, 189; opera.
tions. 2; permanent work found
for 33 people; wood supplied 9
families; food furnished to 889
families; meals to $40 transients;
milk, SO quarts; rooms 144;cloth-
ing furnished to Sc people; rent.
ais paid 49 weeks; social ser
vices, 165; shoes furnished, IA
pairs; nurses furnished to spe
cial cases AZ days and nights;
letters written 300; calls on the
INDECENT and sick, 500; making a
total number of services, 3,548;
number of individuals served,