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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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^ generous in their expendituresfor relief, if it cost, as the report stated, $1.08^ per annum foreach inhabitant of the district. If we consider the population ofthe city at the present time, say 1,300,000, and appropriated $1.08^per annum for each inhabitant, it would amount to $1,410,500,which is about three times as much as was expended in any of theyears of the last decade. oo zo zo -\ m> -\
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CHAPTER VI. SMALL POX HOSPITAL AT BUSH HH^L—ACT TO REMOVE THE ALMS-HOUSE. THE Guardians adopted the following preamble and resolu-tion at their meeting in Januarj^, 1826 : Whereas, It has been represented to this Board thatElizabeth Helm, widow of Peter Helm, deceased, is innecessitous circumstances, and believing that it would add to thecomfort and happiness of said Elizabeth Helm to be placed in theAsylum for Indigent Widows and Single Women; and, in con-sideration of the patriotic and disinterested services rendered bythe said Peter Helm, during the prevalence of an epidemic dis-ease in the year 1793, as set forth in a certificate of thanks tohimself and others, presented at a meeting of the citizens ofPhiladelphia, at the City Hall, on the 2Sth day of March, 1794,and signed b)^ Governor McKean ; therefore, be it ^Resolved, That the President of this Board be directed tomake application to the managers of the i^sylum referred to abovefor the admission of Elizabeth Helm, as soon a

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