The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-10
Case Load

"In 1931, Lincoln House worked with 7S7 families representing 3,G30 men, women and children. Of this number. 141 families con- stituted what we call broken fam files" In S3 of these cases, the deaths of one or both of the par cnts had taken place. Tn 23 cases, one of the parents had deserted. Divorce was q factor in seven cases and in 28 cases, the parents were separated.
 Nationality
 our analysis of families by na- tionality Is especially interesting this year as certain new trends are significant. Tho Italian race leads with a total of 335 families. Then follow in order American 204, Irish 50, French Canadian 43, Lithuanian 4l, U. $. colored 35, Polish 20. Russian II, German $. Canadian 6, English 6, Hebrew 5, Portuguese, Scotch ,.
 Personal Service
 "Our workers made 1,540 visits to homes during the year and 947 calls for information in regard to cases on which they were work ing. They sent 380 letters or tele- grams and had 10,405 office inter views. In response to calls for in- formation from member organiZa- tions in other cities. they investi- gated G4 families and sent careful ly prepared reports covering the problems.
 During the year we have added two new workers to our staff: Miss kasmyra Chaponis and Mss Jo- sephinc Pope who replaced her sister. Miss Rose Pope.
 Miss Chaponis speaks Lith- uanian. Polish and Russian, and Miss Pope speaks Italian. The burden of the case load has fallen upon Mrs Mary D. Camp, our senior visitor. Mrs Camps train ing as l. nurse and her years of cx- perience and study as q family visitor enables her to render an unusual service to this community. Lincoln House is fortunate in hav- ing q worker of Mrs Camps abil- ity who k loyal and devoted to her work and brings the highest type of social service to her families. And finally 1 wish to pay much deserved tribute to Miss Elizabeth Gustafson and her assistant, Miss Jennie JesIlavich. They are re- sponsible for the intelligent hand ling and routing of thousands of inquiries made over the telephone and in person and which we think of as our information service. The importance of this service over shadows duties of a more mechan- ical nature and emphasizes the i'm portance of Miss Gustafson's po- sition and her years of faithful service in fulfilling its duties.
 Relief
 "The total cost of relief given by Lincoln House In 1881 such as food. rent, coal, milk, clothing, shoes, rubbers. household furnish ings, spectacies. hospital care and special dietary allowances was $2O,S0O.4S. The food bill alone amounted to $4,242.02. Through the assistance of the Leavenwortn Rent and Fuel Fund and other sources $3,294.10 was spent on rents and $713.37 on coal. Through the Eugene Kerner Mllk Fund 10 which the Rotary Club, Women's Club of Waterbury, Waterbury Junior League and the Business and Professional Women's Club contributed, we spent $3,441.0f for milk for undernourished children. Through special arrangements with the Waterbury hospital and St Mary's hospital medical car" was given to our families at q cost of $050.SG. Thanks to the gener- osIty of the Waterbury branch of the Needlework Guild of America of which Mrs John P. Elton is president. we have spent $1,263.1O | on shoes and .have issued ovef 5000 garments, dresses | pa nta, sweaters and other forms of ! clothing as our families needed