Report, Annual

Object/Artifact

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Report, Annual

Entry/Object ID

2017.9.348e1

Description

Welfare Folder: Philadelphia Home for Incurables "Seventh annual report of the Philadelphia Home for Incurables," organized May 4, 1877, incorporated November 14, 1877. Published in booklet format, bound with thread. Soft covers, 40 pp. including covers. Published in Philadelphia by Press of Henry B. Ashmead, 1102 and 1104 Sansom Street, 1884. 6 x 8" Officers and Managers listed in the report are as follows: Mrs. Seth B. Stitt {President], Mrs. C. K. Inglis [Vice President], Mrs. Israel Maule [Vice President], Mrs. Henry C. Townsend [Treasurer], Mrs. Edward R. Fell [Secretary], with Board of Managers including Mrs. M. R. Trevor, Mrs. G. Albert Lewis, Mrs. Benjamin Griffith, Mrs. John A. Lewis, Mrs. Samuel A. Harrison, Mrs. Edward H. Ogden, Mrs. J. Eastburn Mitchell, Miss Augusta Taber, Miss Susan Gorgas, Miss Helen V. Wriggins, Mrs. Samuel R. Shipley, Mrs. Benjamin J. Crew, Mrs. Horatio Gates Jones, Mrs. J. Lewis Crozer, Mrs. Charles H. Caldwell, Mrs. C. G. Hunsworth, Mrs. H. S. Hoffman, Mrs. Charles A. Dickey, Mrs. W. A. Griswold, Mrs. Thomas Roberts, Mrs. T. G. Wormley, Mrs. William D. Bispham, Mrs. John F. Keen, Miss Emma C. Egner, Mrs. William H. Brown, Mrs. C. L. Peirce, Mrs. Thomas K. Finletter, Mrs. William Bucknell, Mrs. Alexander MacCoy, Mrs. Walter Baird, Mrs. John McGowan, Mrs. Andrew Longacre, Mrs. William Ernst, Mrs. N. B. Nadler, Mrs. E. G. Hall, Mrs. Frank L. Bodine, Mrs. M. H. Crawford, Also includes a list of officers elected by the managers, which include: Advisory Board: Honorable William S. Peirce, Honorable Horatio Gates Jones, Mr. S. Weir Lewis, Mr. Benjamin J. Chew, Mr. J. Eastburn Mitchell, Mr. Seth R. Stitt, Honorable Daniel M. Fox, Mr. John Baird, Mr. Edward H. Ogden, Mr. Henry C. Townsend, Mr. John M. Collins, Mr. Caleb J. Milne. Medical Advisers: W. W. Keen, Thomas G. Morton, Charles P. Turner, and W. C. Dixon, MDs. Visiting Physicians: Henry R. Rockwell and Horace G. Hill, MDs. Auditing Committee: J. Eastburn Mitchell and S. Weir Lewis. Solicitor: F. Lincoln Wayland. Conveyancer: Anson H. Hamilton. Also includes a list of standing committees, including those of Admission, Suplly, Religious Service, Printing, Finance and Building, and Visiting. The main body of the annual report then begins, with a discussion of the "goings on" in the organization during the year 1883. Subjects mentioned include the construction of a new wing consisting of a "compartment building for men and women," an "avalanche" of applications for accommodations in the Men's Ward, statistics involving the residents of the home [33 patients- all women in 1882, and 50 patients- 39 men, 9 men and 2 children in 1884]. The report then continues with a discussion of fundraising activities [the Memorial Band contributed $2981.38 from its founding to date], and activities associated with "Donation Day" which was held at 4800 Woodland Avenue, West Philadelphia. Other fundraising statistics were published as well; this section of the report was written by Margaret S. Fell, secretary. Following this is the physician's report, with information about the 50 "inmates" and their afflictions, which included but were not limited to cancer, cholera, debility, heart disease, fractured spines, paraplegia, rheumatoid arthritis, and spina meningitis. The content was submitted by Henry B. Rockwell, J. P. Crozer Griffith, and Guy Hinsdale, MDs. The annual report then includes lists of life members, annual subscriptions, donations, those who donated on Donation Day, those donating to various funds [Building and Furnishing funds], and a list of donors making general donations throughout the year. At the end of the report are the Home for Incurables' Constitution and Bylaws, the former consisting of nine articles; the latter consisting of five articles. The report continues on with nine rules of admission to the Home for Incurables, and closes with an "In Memoriam" section, listing the following interred at the Home's lot in Mount Moriah Cemetery: Mrs. Susan D. Britton, Laura Avery, Mary Armbruster, Katie Blair, Sarah D. Brown, Sarah Richards, Eliza Bodine, Mrs. Rebecca Mitchell, Nancy Neeley, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Moore, Mrs. Emily Burcke, Miss Anna E. St. Claire, Mrs. Hannah G. Marley, Mrs. Marie P. Alaine, Margaret Frame, John Carey, Thomas Jones, and Caleb Baldwin.

Collection

Pamphlet Box Collection