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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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GLASGOW CONVALESCENT HOME.
Lenzie.
The Board of Management consists of the members
selected by the subscribers and various public and
charitable bodies in the city of Glasgow. John
Pirrie, Esq., 207 West George Street, chairman.
The Home is situated at Lenzie, about half a mile
to the south-east of the railway station. It has accom-
modation for 67 patients, of whom 30 are taken from
the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and 27 from the general
pubhc resident in Glasgow and the neighbourhood,
and 10 from the Western Infirmary of Glasgow.
! The subscribers to the Home have the privilege of
recommending the general public patients.
Drs. D. P. Stewart and William Whitelaw, Kirkin-
tilloch, visiting medical oflScers ; Dr. John Wilson,
2 Eton Gardens, Glasgow, examining medical officer ;
Mrs. Farquharson, matron ; W. Ker, 27 W. George
Street, treasurer; G. Paterson, 83 West Regent St.,
secretary ; W. Crawford, 11 W. Nile St., collector.
GLASGOW MISSION TO THE OUT-DOOR
BLIND
Has under its care upwards of 1000 blind people,
resident in Glasgow and the counties of Lanark,
Renfrew, and Ayr.
These blind persons are sought out, visited at their
own houses, taught to read, and provided with books
in raised type. As they are mostly adults, who have
by the one calamity lost both their sight and their
income, many of them being in extreme destitution,
means are much needed to relieve their pressing
wants, and to aid them in procuring employment.
President, Sir Jas. Watson, 40 St. Vincent Place;
hon. treasurer, Archd. Arrol, 16 Dixon Street ; hon.
secretary, James Miller, 5 South Hanover Street;
superintendent, J. Macdonald, 4 Bath Street.
THE GLASGOW PROTESTANT INSTITUTION
FOR ORPHAN AND DESTITUTE GIRLS.
Has been established for fifty- three years. Its object is
to rescue orphan and entirely destitute girls of tender
years, and give them an education and upbringing
fitting them for good domestic servants. Homes, 339
South York Street, matron, Mrs. Sliman ; and 61
Cambridge Street, matron, Jlrs. Simpson ; R. Blyth,
C.A., 115 St. Vincent Street, Mrs. Gow, Cairndowan,
Dowanhill, and Miss Kerr, 5 Newton PI., joint secre-
taries; A. Fraser, 16 Princes' Square, and Miss A.
Fraser, 28 Hamilton Park Terrace, joint treasurers.
GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY DORCAS
SOCIETY.
Instituted 1864.
President, Lady Campbell of Garscube ; secretary,
Mrs. Campbell Douglas, 266 St. Vincent Street;
honorary secretary, Robert Gourlay, Bank of Scot-
land ; honoraiy treasurer, John E. Watson, C.A.,
149 Hope Street.
Object : to supply with warm and sufficient cloth-
ing indigent patients who are so far restored to
health as to be able to leave the hospital and return
to their own homes. In certain exceptional cases the
Society also provides or helps to supply artificial
limbs and other surgical appliances, the expense of
which places them beyond the reach of the very poor.
GLASGOW HOME FOR DESERTED MOTHERS.
308 Renfrew Street.
Established in 1873, and supported by voluntary
contributions.
The aim and object of this Home is to supply a
desideratmn, the want of which has been long experi-
enced in this city and the West of Scotland, ^iz., to
afford temporary shelter and maintenance to destitute
and houseless mothers, with theii- helpless infants.
Those only who have for the first time deviated from
the paths of virtue, or who have been led astray, are
eligible for admission. While resident in the Home
a vigilant supei-vision is exercised over them. Much
attention is paid to their moral and religious welfare,
and every effort made to procm-e suitable situations
for them. The infants are placed under the care of
proper and trastworthy nurses, all of whom are under
the oversight and supervision of the matron.
The Home is managed by a committee of ladies,
assisted by a board of gentlemen, and is under the
general superintendence of a matron.
President, The Earl of Glasgow ; vice-presidents,
James White of Overtoun, Sir Peter Coats of Auchin-
drane, Jas. King, of Levcrnholm; directors, Rev.
Dr. Jamieson, Rev. G. C. Cameron, Rev. G. L. Car-
stairs, A. Walker, J. T. Whitelaw, J. Henderson, T.
M. Fergusson, Dr. J. G. Wilson, Robt. Miller, J. B.
Sheriff; treasurer, Robert Gourlay, Bank of Scotland;
secretary, J. B. Kidston, 50 West Regent Street;
matron, Mrs. Arbuckle.
CITY OF GLASGOW NATIVE BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION.
Its object is to afford assistance to natives and
widows, and families of natives, of the city of Glas-
gow, who from reverses of fortune, or otherwise, have
been reduced to necessitous circumstances. A pay-
ment of £5 5s., either in one sum at entry or by five
successive yearly instalments of £1 Is., constitutes
membership. President, W. J. Davidson, Esq. of
Ruchill; treasurer, J. E. Watson, 149 Hope Street;
secretary, James B. Kidston, 50 West Regent Street.
GLASGOW BENEVOLENT. '
For visitation of the destitute sick, and others in
extreme poverty.
The Lord Provost, president; Sir J. Watson, J.
Mitchell, A. Macgeorge, and J. A. Campbell,
vice-preses; Rev. J. Renfrew, R. A. Bogue, A.
Macgeorge, J. Miller, J. Gourlay, R. Gow, R. West-
lands, A. Sclanders, J. Kirkpatrick, T. Train, and W.
Landless, acting committee; R. A. Bogue, 113 Ingram
Street, treasurer; John Gourlay, secretary. Religious
Institution Rooms, 172 Buchanan Street ; W. Craw-
ford, 11 West Nile Street, collector.
M 'ALPINE'S MORTIFICATION.
Founded in 1811 by Mrs. M'Alpine, who conveyed
to trustees her property for the maintenance of poor
men and women of the description given in her will
— the former receiving annually £10, and the latter
£5. The trustees are the Deacon Convener and the
Ministers of eight of the Established Churches.
D. & A. Cuthbertson, Provan, & Strong, C.A ,
110 West George Street, factors.