Supplement to the Charity Organisation Review
1915-07 1915 1910s 4 pages CHARITY ORGANISATION REVIEW. 3 19138. The Finsbury Committee ask for the sum of £1 10s. 3d. to cover the expenses of moving into the country the home of a man who has gone to work on a farm. The wife and five children have followed him ; and the eldest boy &...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
| Published: |
July 1915
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/32B41A8B-AFDC-4C00-9370-FDD653950E2F http://hdl.handle.net/10796/204C8272-E78A-4EA4-A5AA-C3FFB863886C |
| Summary: | 1915-07
1915
1910s
4 pages
CHARITY ORGANISATION REVIEW. 3 19138. The Finsbury Committee ask for the sum of £1 10s. 3d. to cover the expenses of moving into the country the home of a man who has gone to work on a farm. The wife and five children have followed him ; and the eldest boy — the only one earning — has been promised work there too. It is felt that life in the country promises better things for this family than struggling on in town — especially at the present time, when agricultural labour is so much needed. 18917. The Shoreditch Committee ask for £3 18s. to enable them to provide for the maintenance of a crippled woman of 38 in the country. Her childhood was an unhappy one, as her parents died and she fell into the hands of unscrupulous relations who took her out of the workhouse for the sake of the money given by charitable people for many years ; now she has been boarded in the country, where she is very happy with a kind woman. Formerly most of the pension was provided by relations, but now only one continues to subscribe, so that it is necessary to appeal to the public to enable this Committee to provide enough for her to live on, as she is in bad health and cannot possibly earn her own living. 22040. The Stepney and Mile End Committee ask for £5 10s. 4d. towards the cost of enabling a patient with bronchitis to receive hospital and convalescent treatment. He required an outfit of clothes before entering hospital, and, though a member of a sick club whose sick pay, together with what he received under the National Insurance Act, kept his family during the first twenty-six weeks of illness, he had to ask for help for them when both allowances dropped to 5s. a week. He has now returned home fit for light work, but cannot return to his former employment as carman, though his record is excellent and his place kept open for him, since he must in future avoid exposure to the weather. The allowance is being continued for long enough to give him a chance of a fresh start. The amount asked for is less than half of the total amount spent by the Committee in helping him. The Library. Those who are engaged in the study of social work are finding more every day that the lives of the people are conditioned by intricate Acts of Parliament and the visits of inspectors. It is now a necessity for them to be able to obtain the use or possession of reports, books, and pamphlets, official and unofficial, informing them what these Acts are, who these inspectors are, how they are working, and what their own attitude or cooperation should be. If you are among the number of such students, you are probably feeling more and more the need of someone to whom you can write a postcard, or telephone, stating your query, and who will lend you or order for you exactly the book or paper you require. The Librarian of the C.O.S. at Denison House, 296 Vauxhall Bridge Road (telephone Victoria 871), is prepared to render you this service. Very often the paper or report you want only costs a few pence, yet it means for you an afternoon wasted on a journey to a publisher — a journey not unfrequently without result, since those firms do not keep on the premises expert advisers on such matters, and can only supply purchasers who know the number, date, and title of the document they require. The Librarian at the C.O.S. will order the proper publication to be posted to you with a note of your indebtedness. When a book in the library is likely to help you he will inform you of the same, and, should you be unable to consult it here, would post it to you on loan for a definite period, charging you only with the cost of postage.
463/box 99 |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | TEXT |