Archaelogy, education, medical and charitable institutions of Glasgow / edited by Magnus Maclean.

Date:
1901
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Credit: Archaelogy, education, medical and charitable institutions of Glasgow / edited by Magnus Maclean. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    providing shelter and food during winter on schooldays to the children. Three warm meals are supplied daily, and, when needful, cast-oflf garments are bestowed. 446 children were thus helped in 1899—a much smaller num- ber than usual, owing, no doubt, to good employment of workers generally. The United Evangelistic Association also give to poor Glasgow children of school age a short time at the coast or in the country by means of their Fresh-Air Fortnight Scheme. There are now 12 Homes, some at least of which were gifts. The scheme has never yet been in debt. The children are well fed, and have, roughly speaking, twelve hours' sleep and twelve hours' play. In 1899 over 7,300 children enjoyed these very substantial benefits. The expenditure was £5,762. Yet another outlet of the manifold charity of this Association is the Weary Workers' Rest, at Dunoon, in which hard-wrought female workers, who are unable out of their limited earnings to pay for a holiday, are given a fortnight of rest and care. 172 were cared for in 1899, and the cost was £205. Poor mothers to the number of 2,116, and poor children to the number of 3,800, were given a day in the country. The Association, on Sunday mornings, supplies a Freb Breakfast to about 1,200 men and women of the poorest class, and on Sunday after- noons supplies a poor children's dinner table. At both a religious service is conducted. By the poor Girls' and Lads' Help the Association aids by advice and assistance in getting employment. On these objects, and the day refuges, the Evangelistic Association spent, in 1899, the svmi of £1,761. The Glasgow and West of Scotland Mission to the Friendless, which developed out of a previously existing society, has for ten years maintained an industrial home for friendless women, and has lately added a night shelter and probationary home. In 1899 fully 400 women and girls passed through the home, and of these 49 were sent by the police or by the magistrates from police courts. The women are sent out to charwork, or are trained in laundry work, and thus help to maintain the home. Besides, over 22,000 free breakfasts were given to friendless and fallen. About £1,100 were expended. The Poor Children's Dinner Table Society (1869) supplies deserving and destitute children with one meal daily. Clotliing is also supplied to the most necessitous. There were in a recent year 17 tables open daily from November to April, and 149,191 dinners wei-e supplied. Paid lady agents visit applicants at their homes, and give admission tickets. Clotliing is in some cases given. Expenditure, £1,123. The Day Nurseries Association (1874) provides accommodation, with the necessary care, for young children whose parents require to go out to work, such as widows, widowers, and deserted mothers. A charge of 3d. a day is made for each child, but the Association requires at least £500 a year to carry on its work. There are five nurseries in the city. There are two Magdalene Institutions—The Glasgow Magdalene Institution (1859), which developed out of an older asylum, and the Dalbeth Magdalene Asylum (1851). The latter is managed by Roman Catholics, but receives penitents of any denomination. In both institu- tions the inmates engage in laundry work, payment for which helps to maintain the homes. A number of the Avomen are restored to parents and others are placed in situations.