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 BOARD OF GUARDIANS AND| 
 TRUSTEES FOR THE RELIEF 
 OF JEWISH POOR, LONDON 
 
 VISITING COMMITTEE 
 
 NOTES FOR THE GUIDANCE 
 OF VISITORS
 
 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
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 VISITING COMMITTEE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 JEWISH BOARD OF GUARDIANS. 
 
 Notes for the Guidance of Visitors, 
 
 Cases are referred to the Visitors by the Relief Committee, 
 the Conjoint Committee (for Russo-Jewish cases), the Investi- 
 gating Committee, the Temporary Allowance Committee, and thr 
 Loan Committee. The grants which can be made by these 
 Committees are : 
 
 Relief Committee and Conjoint Committee. 
 A. To ALL CASES. 
 
 1. Gifts or loans of money for subsistence or for business 
 purposes, as, for example, the purchase of tools or stock. 
 
 2. Grants for the repatriation of foreign applicants. 
 
 3. Gifts in kind, viz. : Clothes, surgical instruments, hospital 
 tickets, nourishments for the sick, and orders on tradesmen for 
 bread, meat and coals. 
 
 B. To RUSSO-JEWISH CASES ONLY. 
 
 4. The use of the services of the Location and Information 
 
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 Bureau (Secretary, Mr. J. E. Blank, 45, Great Alie Street, E.), 
 which gives advice and guidance in the choice of work and 
 lodgings. 
 
 5. Grants of passage-tickets for emigration.* 
 
 6. Advances of money for apprenticeship through the 
 Industrial Committee of the Board or through other agencies, t 
 
 Investigating Committee. 
 
 Fixed allowances, i.e. allowances granted for a period not 
 exceeding six months, but renewable. 
 
 Temporary AHmvance Committee. 
 
 Allowances for not more than four weeks, but renewable, 
 chiefly to widows, or in cases of illness. 
 
 Loan Committee. 
 
 Loans for business purposes only, not granted without 
 securities. 
 
 * Applicant* other than those who are dealt with by the Conjoirt 
 
 Committee as being victims of Russian persecution, must, if they desire 
 
 .nice for emigration, be referred to the Emigration Committee of 
 
 tin- Hoard. Such applicants are usually required to pay at least half 
 
 the passage- money themselves. 
 
 t Visitors who think that in non-Russian cases under their charge help 
 towards apprenticeship is advisable, should enter into communication with 
 the Industrial Committee of the Board.
 
 Notes on the Investigation of Applications for Relief, 
 
 // is hoped that the following notes may be found useful in helping 
 the visitor in making recommendations on the cases referred to 
 them. 
 
 The notes do not profess to deal with loan cases, but a paper entitled 
 " Some hints to Visitors when Investigating Loan Cases" is 
 reprinted in the Appendix. 
 
 A. The most frequent causes of distress and the methods of 
 relief in cases which come before visitors may be classified as 
 follows : 
 
 (a). Illness of the Wage-earner; M'idows and Orphans. 
 
 If the illness is likely to be of short duration, help in the form 
 of surgical aid or nourishment may be recommended during 
 recovery, but such recommendation must in all cases be supported 
 by the production of a medical certificate. Such certificate is 
 frequently too meagre to enable a visitor to judge whether there 
 is a good prospect of speedy recovery, or whether the case be one 
 of acute or of chronic illness. In such cases, it is desirable to 
 refer to the Board for a special medical report. If the illness is 
 likely to be of long duration, it is almost always advisable that the 
 patient should be urged to go into a hospital, if eligible as an 
 in-patient. Where admission to a hospital cannot be procured, or 
 can be procured only after delay, the course to be adopted should 
 depend on the antecedents of the case, and the character of the 
 home. In general, a weekly allowance should be recommended, 
 the patient remaining at home. If, however, the antecedents of 
 the case ar<> distinctly bad, and, in particular, home conditions are 
 unsatisfactory, so that proper nursing is impossible, help should not 
 be recommended until the visitor has done his best to persuade the 
 patient to enter the parish infirmary. At the same time enquiries 
 should be made as to whether the applicant belongs to any Benefit
 
 Society on which his circumstances give him a claim to relief. 
 Kosher food is supplied in the Whitechapel infirmary. 
 
 Patients recovering from illness are received in the Con- 
 valescent Homes mentioned in the Appendix ; but, owing to the 
 large demand for this kind of help, applicants must be prepared 
 for difficulty and delay in procuring admission. 
 
 Visitors should notify to the Board all cases of consumption 
 coming to their knowledge, and should carefully study both the 
 leaflet issued by the Board entitled " Hints about the Prevention 
 of Consumption" and the circular letter of the Honorary Secretary 
 of 28th September, 1898, in order that they may be able, when 
 visiting families among whom there is a consumptive patient, to 
 explain the need of precautions against the spread of the disease 
 by infection. With a view to minimising the danger, the Board 
 has expressed its willingness to provide, as required, in cases of 
 consumption, separate beds, spittoons, disinfectants, &c, and 
 where necessary a separate bedroom for the patient. 
 
 In all cases where the wage-earner is incapacitated through 
 illness, or where a widow, is left with children, the members of 
 the family must be made to feel that it is their duty to do all that 
 they can to support the home ; children who are at work must be 
 induced to make as large a contribution as possible to the main- 
 tenance of the household ; and the mother of the family should 
 in most cases be pressed to work. Where there are no very 
 young children, or where such children can be entrusted to the 
 charge of neighbours, or sent to the Jewish Creche (see Appendix 
 II., No. 18) during the day, the mother may be able to earn 
 something by outdoor work, such as cleaning, washing, &c., or 
 in some cases, she might learn a regular trade. If tied to her 
 home, she may be able to get some indoor work i.e., button-hole 
 making, washing, or sewing. The adult workrooms of the Board 
 of Guardians give work to widows apd women whose husbands 
 are ill or convalescent.
 
 For a widow who cannot support her family out of her own 
 earnings a weekly allowance should be recommended. Special 
 attention should be paid in cases of this kind to the attendance 
 and progress of children at school ; one or more of each 
 family should be entered as candidates at the elections for 
 inmates of the Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum ; efforts 
 should be made to secure that those who are of an age to leave 
 school shall, either through the Industrial Committee of the 
 Board of Guardians, or with the help of private influence, be 
 apprenticed to proper trades. Such trades as cigar-making, cap- 
 making, and the lower branches of tailoring, which are over- 
 crowded, and the apprenticeship to which costs nothing, should 
 be avoided. 
 
 (). Illness of other Members of the Family. 
 
 The attention of visitors is directed to the Institutions men- 
 tioned in the Appendix, which provide nursing for invalids and 
 relief for women at the time of confinement. 
 
 (/:). Incompetence of Head of Family. 
 
 Foreigners, and especially expelled Russians, sometimes come 
 to England without any knowledge of a trade that can be prac- 
 tised in England. Such cases are always difficult to deal with. 
 The odds against an unskilled workman in the effort to make a 
 livelihood are so great, and his livelihood (if he make one) is 
 likely to be so poor, that it is advisable to discourage as much as 
 possible the settlement of such persons, and the wisest course in 
 nearly all cases is to advise them to return to their native land. 
 This course, if taken at all, should be taken at once, since, when 
 an undesirable immigrant has been settled in England for a time, 
 and has begun to send his children to an English school, it is 
 very difficult to induce him to return, even when he is unable to 
 support himself here. Visitors dealing with newly-arrived Russian
 
 immigrants, who base their claim for relief on the fact that they 
 have been "expelled," should bear in mind that Russian Jews are 
 sometimes expelled from a village without losing the right to live 
 in a town, or are expelled from a place outside the Pale without 
 losing the right to live within the Pale, and that consequently 
 " expulsion " does not always mean absolute inability to return to 
 Russia, though in such cases return would inevitably involve 
 great hardship. 
 
 Where for any reason it is impossible or undesirable for a 
 refugee to return to his own country, help of three kinds may be 
 recommended on his behalf: 
 
 1 . If he has a knowledge of a pursuit which can be carried on 
 in other countries, though not in England, as, for example, 
 agriculture, then emigration may be recommended. 
 
 2. If it seems likely that he will be able to learn a trade, 
 then it may be recommended that he be referred to the 
 " Location and Information Bureau." Cases of this 
 would be where the applicant is young and vigorous, 
 although as yet untrained, or where he has an imperfect 
 knowledge of a trade, or where he knows a trade that 
 is not carried on in the same way in Russia as in England. 
 
 3. As a last lesource, he may be provided with stock for 
 hawking. 
 
 An application for money to open a shop in the East End 
 should always be opposed. The cost of establishing even a small 
 shop is considerable, and the prospects of success are very slight. 
 
 Foreign refugees settling in England should be urged to 
 attend the English classes established by the Russo-Jewish Com- 
 mittee (see Appendix II). 
 
 (d). Temporary Want of Employment* 
 
 The treatment of applicants who are in distress through 
 temporary want of employment is the most difficult of all the
 
 problems with which the visitor has to deal. An applicant who 
 works at a regular trade, carried on all the year round, may be 
 assisted, when out of work for a time, by a grant of money. But 
 it is very necessary that applicants who work at season trades 
 should be discouraged from forming the expectation that they 
 may look to the Board of Guardians for regular help in their slack 
 time every year. In some cases those who work at season trades 
 might learn a cognate trade to occupy them during the slack 
 season. 
 
 Russo-Jewish applicants alleged to be out of work should 
 invariably be sent to the Location and Information Bureau : for 
 when this has been done, and places have been found for such 
 applicants, the plea of "out of work" has sometimes been found 
 to be untrue. 
 
 (e).OM Age, 
 
 The support of persons too old to work is a duty which 
 should fall in the first instance on their relatives. Help should 
 not be recommended until every effort has been made to induce 
 the relatives, and especially the children, of such persons to make 
 adequate contributions to their support. Where this is impossible, 
 a weekly allowance should be recommended for such applicants as 
 are active enough to keep their homes in a proper state, or as live 
 with relatives or friends who will give them sufficient help in 
 domestic work. For other applicants, it is best to endeavour to 
 obtain admission to the Home for Aged Jews (see Appendix II), 
 or, as a last resource, to recommend them to apply to the Infirmary. 
 This last course should be adopted when the past life of the 
 applicant has been distinctly vicious. 
 
 (/). Cases of Children who have lost both Parents. 
 
 Children who have lost both parents can be admitted into 
 the Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum (see Appendix II) by
 
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 order of the Committee, and without going through the contested 
 election which decides the claims of children who have lost one 
 parent. 
 
 (g). Deserted Wives. 
 
 An application for relief is sometimes made by a wife whose 
 husband has, usually at a time of great poverty, gone away from 
 her, either with her previous knowledge and consent, or without 
 it. In order to stamp out, as far as possible, the practice of 
 desertion, it should always be recommended, in accordance with 
 the existing resolution of the Board, that applicants of this kind 
 be refused help until they have gone to a workhouse and stayed 
 there for a time, and thus given the parish authorities a right to 
 proceed against the husband. 
 
 SANITATION, ETC. 
 
 Visitors should never fail to impress on those under their 
 charge the necessity of having their homes in a clean and sanitary 
 condition; and they should immediately notify to the Sanitary 
 Department of the Board any defects in this respect, or any cases of 
 over-crowding, that may come under their notice. The leaflet issued 
 by the Mansion House Council, contains suggestions and inform- 
 ation on this subject, and instructions in English and Yiddish, 
 issued by the Sanitary Committee of the Board for distribution in 
 suitable cases, are obtainable at the Board's Offices. 
 
 Wherever an opportunity presents itself, visitors should use 
 their influence to discourage early and improvident marriages, and 
 marriages between persons such as deaf-mutes and victims of 
 epilepsy and consumption, whose physical condition makes it 
 undesirable that they should help to bring a family into the 
 world. 
 
 RETURN OF CASE PAPERS. 
 
 It is of the utmost importance that visitors should give as 
 fully and carefully as possible all the details asked for in the case
 
 papers, more especially the names and ages of children, with their 
 schools or occupations, their wages, the names and addresses of 
 employers, and the names and addresses of the applicant's near 
 relatives. All this information should be given when a case paper 
 is filled up, even if the visitor has already given it in a previous 
 report. Discrepancies in the statements made on various 
 occasions sometimes enable attempts at fraud to be detected. 
 Visitors should send in their information with the least possible 
 delay. When a visitor is unable to attend to a case, the case- 
 paper should be sent back by return of post. 
 
 PERIODICAL VISITATION OF CASES. 
 
 When help of any kind has been given on the recommenda- 
 tion of a visitor, occasional visits should be paid to the recipient 
 in order to see whether the result that was in view when the 
 recommendation was made has been attained, and whether the 
 advice that may have been given to the applicant has been 
 followed. It is especially necessary that visitors should keep in 
 touch with foreign cases committed to their charge, since it is 
 only by doing so that they can help effectually in the work of 
 Anglicising, first by seeing that members of foreign families attend 
 regularly at classes for the study of English, and, secondly, by 
 watching for the favourable moment at which they may be 
 advised, and even helped, to move away from those districts 
 which are most congested with poor Jews. The practice of 
 periodical visitation should, however, be departed from where 
 there is reason to think that the visits cause the recipient of 
 relief to expect more from charitable sources, and to rely less on 
 his own efforts, than he would do if left alone. 
 
 Visitors will be asked from time to time to report on the 
 condition of the cases under their charge, old as well as new ; 
 and it is of great importance that they should either comply with 
 such request with as little delay as possible, or else write to the
 
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 Secretary of the Board, stating the reason for which they consider 
 it advisable that a case should be left alone. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 In the course of their preliminary investigations visitors shou.d 
 be careful not to do anything which may seem to pledge the 
 Board to the grant of money or any kind of help ; and then and 
 at all other times they should not give help out of private 
 resources except after consultation with the Secretary to the 
 Board. 
 
 They should make every effort to be present at the meeting 
 of the Rota at which their recommendations are considered. 
 
 Arrangements can be made, on application to one of the 
 honorary officers of the Committee, to enable newly-elected 
 members to visit in company with a more experienced visitor. 
 
 Any suggestions or complaints should be 
 addressed to the Secretary of the Board.
 
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 APPENDIX I. 
 
 Some Hints to Visitors when Investigating 
 Loan Cases, 
 
 By Mr. J . M . ANSELL, one of the Hon. Secretaries of the Loan Committee 
 
 It is very essential that a Visitor should, inter alia, consider 
 the health of the intended borrowers, and ascertain whether the 
 continuance of their present trade is likely to impair their health, 
 and thus make them chargeable on other departments of the 
 Board. 
 
 The following points should also engage the visitor's 
 consideration : 
 
 1. What is the object of the loan according to applicant's 
 statement ? 
 
 It is desirable for the visitor to gain the confidence of the 
 applicant, and from the information gained to judge whether 
 the present or proposed business is a suitable one. 
 
 2. Is applicant in debt or otherwise involved? 
 
 The visitor should in every instance endeavour to see the 
 rent-book, and thus confirm the statement of the applicant 
 in answer to this question (If in debt for rent state how 
 much owing). The visitor should likewise try to ascertain if 
 applicant is in debt for food, clothing, or stock-in-trade, and 
 if so to what amount. 
 
 3. Is applicant in expectation of some imminent increase of 
 expenditure ? 
 
 The visitor should ascertain if the money is required to pay 
 expenses of wife's approaching confinement, or to defray the 
 costs of a wedding of one of the children, or any special item 
 of expenditure.
 
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 intended ? aPPHCant ^ l UtiHze the ! an in the manner 
 
 Visitors should try to discover whether the applicant has any 
 
 business capacity. In some instances the wife is more able 
 
 Than ?h a \ S K 6 S 00 and to obtain a living for the family 
 
 t * busband n If . '* is the opinion of a visitor that the 
 
 orV ,hn, H D K not lm P rove the borrower's position, the 
 
 report should be made in accordance with that view. 
 
 JLr HaS i ^P"?". 1 ^onable prospects of repayment on the 
 regular scale of 6d. in the per week ? 
 
 This of course greatly depends on the borrower's weekly 
 earnings, which the visitor should try to ascertain, and also 
 
 thp jH nUB ?S f 1 de ,P endent children. In many instances 
 ie elder children help to keep the home together. 
 
 6. May it be reasonably expected that the loan, if granted, 
 will render applicant self-supporting ? 
 
 This depends on the fact whether the borrower intends 
 
 embarking in a business of which he has previous knowledge. 
 
 a rule it is not advisable for a person who is in constant 
 
 c to throw up his employment to start on his own account, 
 
 nor to be started with the intention of sweating low-class 
 
 workers In cases where there is a large family to support 
 
 and applicant earns from 15s. to 20s. weekly, any loan for the 
 
 purpose of setting up in business is to be reprehended. 
 
 7. Has applicant any connection with his sureties ? 
 It is desirable to discover whether any, and, if so, what family 
 relationship exists between the applicant and the sureties* 
 or whether one of the sureties is applicant's landlord, or^ 
 whether applicant is in debt to the proffered sureties. 
 
 on^'her?? 5 appHcant any machines ? and does he owe any money 
 
 U yS3!i be D A lre l the a PP lica "t must produce to the 
 visitor his repayment book. 
 
 9. Can you obtain any further information as to the applicant 
 and his application? and have you any special advice to give 
 the Committee apart from advising the grant or refusal of loan ? 
 
 hoped that visitors will ascertain the antecedents and 
 character of the applicant, and report whether he seems to 
 
 borne rnm, 01 !?^?^' and f - 8 u ber habits ' Jt should ^ be 
 ie in mind that it is not within the province of this Com- 
 
 rt ill ll?* m ? e y /or the current expenses of the living ; 
 
 na 88 * P r ,7 ldedow "e for applicant's children, or tor 
 
 tSl n * del \ t8 u or P/o^ective obligations. The work of 
 
 se 1 ilKS tme S t V 8 f j: it8 b J ecfc to Bender the borrower 
 eliant and independent of public charity.
 
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 APPENDIX II. 
 
 List of some of the Charitable and other Institutions 
 for the Relief of Poor Jews, 
 
 CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 l.-FOR THE AGED. 
 
 Homes : 
 
 ((Election by Committee as vacan- 
 cies occur. Applicants must be 
 over 60 years of age, and must 
 have resided 7 years in Eng- 
 Men and Women). land ) Forms to be obtained 
 
 of the Secretary, Mr I. Bloom- 
 field, 68, Grove Road, Bow, E. 
 
 SALOMONS ALMSIIOUSES (in connection with United Syna- 
 gogue), Brady Street. Whitochapel. Klectiou by the 
 Overseers of the Poor as vacancies occur. Applications 
 to be sent to P. Ornstien, Secretary United Synagogue. 
 
 JOEL E.MANUEL'S ALMSIIOL'SE.S, Wellclose Square, E. 
 Benefits : Free residence in the Almshoiises. 
 To married couples 13 17s. Od. and one ton of coals 
 
 per annum. 
 To single persons 9 Os. 6d. and fourteen cwts. of coals 
 
 per annum. 
 Conditions : Almspeople must not be less than 60 years 
 
 of age, nor be habitually in receipt of charitable relief. 
 They must also be guaranteed by their friends an 
 
 income of not less than 1 -Is. u week for married, and 8s. 
 
 for single persons. 
 Clerk to the Trustees, M. Stephany, Jewish Board of 
 
 Guardians, Middlesex Street, E.G. 
 
 A. L. MOSES and HENRY SOLOMON ALMSHOUSES, Devonshire 
 Street, Mile End, E., for married couples as well as 
 single persons. Klectidis by the Almshouses Committee 
 of the Jewish Board of Guardians as vacancies occur. 
 
 Benefits : Free residence and coals. 
 
 Almspeople in the Henry Solomon Almshouses must be 
 pensioners of the Aged Needy Society.
 
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 MOSES ALMSHOUSES, "Lincoln Street, Bow, for widows with or 
 without children, or for spinsters, the latter being not 
 less than 50 years of age. Election by the Almshouses 
 Committee of the Board of Guardians as vacancies occur. 
 
 Benente : Free residence, coals and 1 per month. 
 
 Condition : A guarantee by the Inmate's friends of an 
 income of not less than 5s. a week. 
 
 Pensions : 
 
 SOCIETY FOR BELIEVING THE AGED NEEDY OF THE JEWISH 
 FAITH. Applicants (Men and Women) must be above 60 
 years of age, and, if of foreign birth, must have lived 
 for ten years in England. (Elections in May and Nov- 
 ember, in May by subscribers and in November by 
 Committee.) Secretary, Mr. I. Bloomfield, 68, Grove 
 Road, Bow, E. Forms of application may be obtained 
 by letter, addressed to the Hon. Sec., Edward A. Joseph, 
 Esq., at the Great Synagogue. Applications must be 
 sent in during the month of January. 
 
 Pensioners Lose their Pensions : 
 
 (a) If they cease to reside in London. 
 
 (b) [f they are found begging or guilty of improper conduct. 
 
 (c) If m the opinion of the Committee the circumstances 
 
 of a Pensioner have become so altered that the 
 pension is no longer requisite. 
 
 9 (d) If they become Inmates of any Public, Parochial or 
 County Institution (this rule does not apply to 
 Almshouses or Hospitals). 
 
 JEWS' HOSPITAL AND ORPHAN ASYLUM. (Admission by con- 
 tested election. Elections are held at irregular intervals.) 
 Secretary, Mr M. J. Green, Hamilton House, 149, 
 ishopsgate Street Without. licnrftte : 12s. a week 
 and clothing. Applicants must must be over 55 years 
 of age aud be widowers, widows, or unmarried. They 
 must be either English, or else have resided in England 
 for over ten years (as there are only 8 pensioners vacan- 
 cies do not occur frequently). 
 
 2 FOR WIDOWS. 
 
 CITY OK LONDON BENEVOLENT SOCIETY for Assisting Poor 
 Widows in Distress. Secretary, Mr. A. Prins 111 
 Brunswick Buildings, Goulston Street, Whitechapel, 1 E! 
 Widows are assisted for a term of thirteen weeks, during 
 which they receive 5s. a week, and at the expiration of 
 that period 1. Four elections a year; Pensioners 
 elected by subscribers who may vote by proxy.
 
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 WORKROOMS. 
 
 For widows or wives whose husbands are prevented from 
 working on account of illness. At the Offices of the 
 Jewish Board of Guardians. Apply personally with 
 written recommendation from visitor on Tuesdays, from 
 10 till 4. Work is only given out from after the Jewish 
 Holydays until the end of June. Those unable to work 
 are taught. The women can as a rule earn 3s. a week. 
 
 3. FOR ORPHANS. 
 
 JEWS' HOSPITAL AND ORPHAN ASYLUM. Elections in Febru- 
 ary and July. (Admission by contested election, except in 
 the case of children deprived of both parents, who can 
 be admitted at any time by order of the Committee.) 
 Limits of age for admission : for children deprived 
 of one or both parents, 2 to 11 years ; for boys with both 
 parents living, y to 11 ; for girls with both parents 
 living, 8 to 11. Applications should be sent in 3 months 
 before each election. Not more than 3 children of the 
 same parents can be inmates at the same time, and not 
 more than 2 children of the same parents can be 
 candidates at the same election. Children are ineligible 
 unless one parent is or was English, or hns been resident 
 in the United Kingdom for at least 2 years prior to the 
 application, or to his or her death. Secretary, Mr. M. J. 
 Green, Hamilton House, Bishopsgate Street Without. 
 
 4 FOR GIRLS. 
 
 HOME FOR JEWISH GIRLS, Sara Pyke House, Tenter Street 
 North. Goodman's Fields, for respectable unprotected 
 girls in search of friends or situations. Charge for 
 Board and Lodging 7s. a week, which may in special 
 cases be remitted by order of the Committee. A 
 limited number of friendless work girls are also admitted 
 as permanent lodgers. A Servants' Registry is kept at 
 the home and no difficulty is found in obtaining situa- 
 tions for girls who apply there for them. Mrs. Harris, 
 Matron. 
 
 DOMESTIC TRAINING HOME, 113, Adelaide Road, N.W. Girls 
 over 14 admitted (without payment) for one year's train- 
 ing, to fit them for domestic service, applications to 
 Hon. Secretary, 15, Acol Road, N.W- Weak girls incap- 
 able of sustained activity or hard work are not admitted. 
 
 WORKROOMS OF THE JEWISH BOARD OF GUARDIANS, 
 Middlesex Street, E. For the instruction of apprentices
 
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 in plain and fancy sewing and gold and worsted embroid- 
 ery. The length of apprenticeship is usually 3 years for 
 military embroidery and 2 yeavs for needlework. The 
 wages are usually 2s. to 2s. 6d. the first year ; 3s to 
 3s. Gd. the second year ; 4s. 6d. the third year ; and 
 5s. 6d. the fourth year. The hours of work are from 
 9 to G.30 on weekdays and from 9 to 1 p.m. on Sundays, 
 and the girls do not work on the Jewish and Christian 
 Holidays. Wages are also paid during illness on produc- 
 tion of a medical certificate and the conditions are 
 probably much healthier than in ordinary workshops. 
 
 RESCUE HOME, Charcroft House, Roseford Terrace, 
 Shepherd's Bush. 
 
 WEST CENTRAL JEWISH GIRLS' CLUB. 
 
 8a, Dean Street, Soho, Hon. Secretary, Miss. L. H. Montagu, 
 12, Kensington Palace Gardens, W. Superintendent, 
 Miss. J. Kautfman, 29, Goodge Street, Tottenham Court 
 Road. Candidates for membership must be recom- 
 mended by their former schoolmistress, or by two 
 Members, or by any public body. Members pay 2d. 
 entrance fee and subscribe Id- per week. The Club is 
 open from 7.45 till 10 on Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, 
 Thursday and Saturday evenings, and from 7 till 10 on 
 Sunday evenings. It may also be open on Sunday 
 afternoons at the request of Members, and for prayers 
 on Friday evenings at the wish of the President. The 
 Club is closed during August. Instructions is given in 
 the following subjects : Laundry, Dressmaking, Plain 
 Needlework, Cookery, Phy.-ical Drill, Vocal Music, Read- 
 ing and Writing, Reading in connection with the 
 National Home Reading Union, Reading and Recitation, 
 Botany, Drawing, French, Wood-carving, Hebrew, 
 Basket-work, Millinery, Luce-making and Clay-modelling. 
 There are also English classes for Foreigners and the 
 lessons are given every night by responsible teachers. 
 Jn order to stimulate more regular and systematic thrift, 
 a Penny Bank at the Club, in connection with the 
 General Post Office, has been founded. 
 
 5. -FOR THE BLIND. 
 
 INSTITUTION KOK THE RELIEF OF THE IN DICK NT BUND of the 
 Jewish Pui'suasion (Election by Committee). Forms 
 to b) obtained of the Secretary, Mr. II. H. Hyams, 
 x, Duko Struct, Aldgate, K.C. Applicants must be totally 
 blind and be natives or elsu have resided here over five 
 years.
 
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 6. FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB. 
 
 JEWS' DEAF AND DUMB HOME, "The Grange," 61, Night- 
 ingale Lane, Wandsworth Common, S.W. Director, 
 Mr. S. Kutner. Election by Committee. 
 
 7. FOR LYINQ=IN WOMEN. 
 
 LADIES' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION. Clothing and Bedding 
 granted. Application by letter to Mrs. Levy, Victoria 
 House, Middlesex Street, lUshopsgate, E.C. 
 
 8. HOSPITALS WHERE KOSHER FOOD IS PROVIDED FOR 
 JEWISH PATIENTS. 
 
 Charing Grogs Hospital, W.C. 
 
 Metropolitan Hospital, Kingsland Road, N.E. 
 
 London Hospital, Whitechape.l Hoad, E. 
 
 Chelsea Hospital for Women, Fulham Road, S.W. 
 
 Ventnor Consumption Hospital. 
 
 Cancer Hospital, (Fr3e) Fulham Road, S.W. 
 
 WORKHOUSES AND INFIRMARIES. 
 
 Parish of Whitechapel : Baker's Row, E. (Kosher Food 
 
 provided). 
 Parish of St. George's-in-the-East : Old Gravel Lane, 
 
 Shadwell. 
 
 Hamlet of Mile End ('Id To\vn : Bancroft Road, Mile End. 
 City of London Union : Offices, Bartholomew Close. 
 
 PROVIDENT DISPENSARY, 
 
 19, Leman Street (Branch of the Metropolitan Provident 
 
 Medical Association.) 
 
 Hours of Attendance of the Doctors at the Dispensary. 
 Sunday, 9 to 11 a.m. 
 Monday, 11 to 12 a.m. and 7.30 to 9 p.m. 
 Tuesday, 2.30 to 4 and 7.30 to 9 p.m. 
 Wednesday, 11 to 12 a.m. and 7.BO to 9 p.m. 
 Thursday, 2.30 to 4 and 7 30 to 9 p.m. 
 Friday, II to 12 a.m. and 2.30 to 4 p.m. 
 Saturday. 7.30 to 9 p.m. 
 
 (All the Doctors can speak Yiddish.) 
 
 SCALE OF PAYMENTS. 
 Each adult ... ... per week, Id. 
 
 Each child under 14 ... d. 
 
 Not more than 4 children charged for Children under 14 
 
 must join with their parents. Children over 14 join as 
 
 adults. 
 One penny is charged for cards of membership and one 
 
 penny for each supply of medicine. 
 No Entrance Fee. Members free to Benefit in 4 weeks from 
 
 date of joining.
 
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 9. NURSING FOR INVALIDS. 
 
 SICK ROOM HELPS' ASSOCIATION AND WOMEN'S SICK BENEFIT 
 SOCIETY. To provide daily attendants for sick or lying- 
 in-women. Membership on payment of 6/- by small 
 instalments. Application through Jewish Board of 
 Guardians or Superintendent, Mrs. Levy, 39, Boleyn 
 Uoad, Stoke Newington, N. 
 
 NuRSKs' HOME, in connection with Ladies' Conjoint Visiting 
 Committee. Communications to the Matron, Mrs. H. 
 Lazarus, Victoria House. Middlesex Street, E. 
 
 10. FOR INCURABLES. 
 
 THE HOME AND HOSPITAL FOR JEWISH INCURABLES, " The 
 Berthons," Wood Street, Walthamstow (Election by 
 Committee). Secretary, Mr. L. J. Salomons, 76, Gros- 
 venor Road, Canonbury, N. For Adults, resident in the 
 United Kingdom for not less than three years, who are 
 permanently disabled by chronic disease, accident or 
 deformity. Cases of cancer, epilepsy, insanity or idiocy 
 are ineligible. Cases of blindness are ineligible unless 
 accompanied by another affliction qualifying for admis- 
 sion. Applications for the admission of inmates must 
 be made on printed forms, to be obtained at the 
 Institution. Applicants must be recommended by three 
 Life Governors or Subscribers in writing, and must be 
 examined and approved by the Medical Officer. In case 
 of urgency, an applicant may be at once admitted to IJie 
 Institution, subject to passing the usual Medical Officer's 
 examination and to there being sufficient accommodation. 
 Any patient exhibiting symptons of insanity or infectious 
 disorder is at once removed from the Home ; also any 
 Inmate who may be in the Committee's opinion so far 
 restored to health as to be able to make sufficient 
 exertion for self-support. A limited number of persons 
 aro received as paying patients. 
 
 11. CONVALESCENT HOMES. 
 
 CLARA BARONESS DE HIRSCH CONVALESCENT HOME. Tudor 
 House, Hampstead Heath, N.W. Application forms 
 from B. A. Elkin, Esq., Hon. Sec., 9, Abercorn Place, 
 N.W., or at the Offices of the Board As a general rule 
 In-patients coming direct fiom a Hospital have prefer- 
 ence. The ordinary period for which Patients are kept 
 in the Home is three weeks. Not being a Hospital, 
 Nurses are not employed at the Home.
 
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 Cases Ineligible : 
 
 1. Persons suffering from consumption or other chest diseases 
 
 in an advanced state. 
 
 2. Persons still requiring medical treatment or nursing. 
 ,S. Convalescents from infectious diseases. 
 
 4. Lunatics, idiots, and persons subject to epileptic fits. 
 
 5. Children under 4 years of age ; persons over G5 years ; 
 
 helpless persons, and women who are near their con- 
 finement. 
 
 6. Persons who have been in the Home or in any other 
 
 Convalescent Home within twelve mouths. 
 
 JEWISH CONVALESCENT HOME, Portland Rd. South Norwood. 
 Branch at St. Patrick's Road, 
 
 Brighton. Application, accompanied by Medical Certi- 
 ficate, to be made personally to Hon. Medical Officer, at 
 the Great Sy lagogue Chambers, on Mondays, at 1.30 
 o'clock. 
 
 12. RELIEF IN KIND. 
 
 (A) Meals. 
 
 JEWISH SOUP KITCHEV, Fashion Street, Spitalfields. 
 Personal application from middle of November onwards. 
 After applicants' cases have been investigated, if found 
 satisfactory, they are put on the list and receive soup 
 and br^ad to take home every day from the second week 
 in December, until the week before Passover. The 
 week before Passover they receive potatoes, sugar and 
 coffee. 
 
 JEWISH CHILDREN'S PENNY DINNERS, 26, Sandy's Row, 
 Whitechapel, E., for children attending the Free School 
 and neighbouring Board Schools. The Society also 
 provides dinners at Hanbury Street and Berners Street 
 Board Schools. A limited number of children receive 
 free dinners for which application should be made to the 
 President, Mrs. H. Adler, 6, Craven Hill, W., or to the 
 Hon. Sec., E. D. Lowy, Esq., 87, Addison Road, W. 
 
 NOURISHMENT KITCHEN, Sandys Row, Bishopagate, E. 
 (Applicants must show a Medical Certificate.) 
 
 (B) Clothing. 
 
 JEWISH BOOT FUND. (Administered through the Managers 
 of Board Schools chiefly attended by Jewish pupils.) 
 Clothing Committee of the Jewish Board of Guardians. 
 Ladies' Guilds in connection with many Synagogues.
 
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