Name/Title
Report, AnnualEntry/Object ID
2017.9.347e2Description
"Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Pauline Temporary Home of Germantown, Philadelphia, East Penn Street, 1884." Organized 1879, incorporated March 8th, 1881.
Published in booklet format, glue for binding. Soft covers, 14 pp. including covers. Published by John J. Waterhouse in Germantown, at 4834 Main Street, 1885. 6 x 9"
Includes Officers, Managers, and Advisory Board, for the year 1885, including Mrs. Mary L. Strawbridge [President], Mrs. Alfred Jones and Mrs. Jabez Gates [Vice Presidents], Mrs. Sarah L. Longstreth [Secretary], Mrs. William Hacker, [Treasurer]. Managers listed include Mrs. Edward M. Hance, Miss Lilly H. Kay, Miss M. W. Ingersoll, Mrs. Jesse Lightfoot, Mrs. Joseph W. Johnson, Mrs. S. L. Longstreth, Mrs. Alfred Jones, Miss A. L. Warden, Mrs. Francis H. Williams, Mrs. E. P. Morris, Mrs. T. S. Rumney, Mrs. F. B. Reeves, Mrs. Howard Sill, Miss M. T. Richards, Mrs. Lloyd P. Smith, Mrs. Cornelia Roberts, Mrs. M. L. Strawbridge, Mrs. Emily W. Taylor, Mrs. William Adamson, Mrs. Philip Garrett, Miss Anna Bayard, Mrs. Jabez Gates, Mrs. Charles M. Bayard, Mrs. Jonathan Graham, Mrs. E. S. Beck, Mrs. William Hacker, Mrs. J. P. Ipsley. Advisory Board: Francis B. Reeves, Franklin Taylor, Alfred Jones, Joseph W. Johnson Jr., James A. Wright, Henry M. Steel.
After this page is a pink insert, glued to the following page. The insert measures 2.25 x 5.75" and reads as follows: Contributions for 1885 may be left with Mrs. Wm. Hacker, 161 Wister St., Germantown, Miss Helen Longstreth, Rooms of the Women's Christian Association, Main and Mill Sts. [now 5501 Germantown Avenue], Germantown, From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily, Mr. Jos. W. Johnson, 535 Chestnut Street, Phila."
The report then continues on with a discussion of the "goings on" at the Pauline Temporary Home, including the role of the Guardians of the Poor at the home, the attendance of the children at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in the mornings and at the Somerville Mission School Sunday School of the First Presbyterian Church in the afternoon. The children were attending the Somerville Public School.
The report then discusses the health record of the Home, with ten cases of measles and one of diptheria, during the previous year. Two deaths occurred, with a child dying from pneumonia and a second, from croup.
Donations fell from $1476.36 in 1883 to $720.06 in 1884.
The Treasurer's report then follows, as well as a list of contributions received in 1884.Collection
Pamphlet Box Collection