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Title: History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries ...: showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the boards of overseers of the poor, gaurdians of the poor and the directors of the Department of Charities and Correction
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lawrence, Charles, b. 1837
Subjects: Philadelphia (Pa.). Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Guardians of the Poor Philadelphia (Pa.). Dept. of Charities and Correction Almshouses Hospitals Hospitals Hospitals
Publisher: (Philadelphia) : C. Lawrence
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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^, voluntarily, to send thousands and tens of thousands ofdollars to relieve the sufierings of the destitute in distant commu-nities, therefore, Resolved^ That the assertion that brandy, wine or otherspirituous liquors are used by the members of this Board, or havebeen since its organization, is maliciously false in every particular, (f> H J3 mmH m
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History of Philadelphia Almshouses and Hospitals. 107 and those who made such assertions must have known this orpossessed no knowledge of what they were speaking. Resolved^ That dinners are not furnished this Board, norever have been since its existence. Resolved^ That the delay by the Councils to make the neces-sary appropriation to draw warrants upon, b)^ this Board, is attendedwith no other results than of injury to the credit of the Board,causing a higher price to be paid for such goods as they are com-pelled to buy, thereby increasing the taxes to that extent, whichthe citizens have to pay, This shows the feeling that existed between the members ofCouncils and the Board of Guardians, and one can form an opinionas to the character of the men of both bodies. It did not have anyeffect on the Councilmen, and the appropriations were still keptback. The credit of the city at that period was not very high, andthe Guardians were compelled to get along as well as they wereable under such

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