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CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
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
desideratum, the want of which has been long experi-
enced in this city and the West of Scotland, viz., to
afford temporary shelter and maintenance to destitute
and houseless mothers, with their 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 supervision 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 trustworthy 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 Levernholm; directors. Rev.
G. C. Cameron, Rev. G. L. Carstairs, J. T. Whitelaw,
J. Henderson, T. M. Fergusson, Robt. Miller, J. B.
Sheriff; treasurer, Robert Gourlay, Bank of Scotland;
secretary, J. B. Kidston, 50 West Regent Street;
matron, Mrs. Arbuckle.
HOUSE OF SHELTER FOR FEMALES.
114 Hill Street, Gaenet Hill.
The "Shelter" was instituted in 1850 ; its object
being to provide a home for females on their libera-
tion from prison, who are desirous to reform and to
support themselves by honest industry. The average
number of inmates in the "Shelter" is about 46.
They are employed in needle-work, the institution
receiving the proceeds of their labour, in return for
which the inmates are lodged, fed, and clothed.
A. A. Ferguson, president ; Dr. R. Scott Orr,
Albany Place, medical attendant; Miss Stevenson,
37 Arlington Street, secretary; Mr. R. W. Church,
45 West Nile St., treasurer; Miss Palmer, matron.
Contributions received by any of the ladies of
committee. Needlework by Miss Palmer, matron,
at the institution.
ASSOCIATION FOR ORGANISING
CHARITABLE RELIEF AND REPRESSING
MENDICITY.
Office — G8 Bath Street.
His Grace the Duke of Argyll, patron ; the Right
Hon. the Earl of Glasgow, president; James Cleland
Burns, Esq., chairman ; W. J. Davidson, Esq., And.
Fergus, Esq., M.D., James Dunlop, Esq., vice-chair-
men ; Robert Gourlay, Esq., and D. Dreghorn,
Esq., treasurers ; J. T. Strang, secretary.
The general objects of this association are to in-
vestigate thoroughly the cases of all poor persons in
the city who may be brought under its notice, with a
view to forwarding them to the proper quarter for
relief; to bring existing charities into co-operation
with one another and with the Poor-law authorities ;
to repress mendicity ; and by these agencies, and the
granting of loans in necessitous cases, to improve the
condition of the poor.
GLASGOW HUMANE SOCIETY.
Office-bearers — President (ex officio), the Lord
Provost ; vice-president. Bailie Couper ; secretary,
Dr. R, D. Tannahill, 2 Cathedral Street ; treasurer,
R. R. Stephen, Esq. ; directors, the president, treasurer,
and visitors of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons
ex officiis ; Messrs. Peter Stewart, J. M'Vicar, Thos.
Frame, G. Munsie, J. Knox, H. Lamberton, James S.
Hamilton, Thomas A. Mathieson, Alex. Harvey, J. L.
K. Jamieson, William Wilson, and Forest Frew;
officer, George Geddes.
The society was instituted in 1790 for the purpose
of giving encom-agement to efforts for rescuing persons
from drowning on the Clyde. An officer is kept per-
manently stationed at the society's house in the Green,
provided with proper apparatus for saving life and
resuscitation. The society gives rewards in money,
and occasionally awards their medal, to persons who
have particularly distinguished themselves by their
efforts in saving human life.
LOYAL CALEDONIA LODGE OF ODD-
FELLOWS, M.U.
Instituted 1840. Place of Meeting, 45 Montrose St.
This society has for its object the relief of its mem-
bers who may be incapable of attending to business
through sickness, &c., and for securing at death a
payment for funeral expenses. The entrance fees are a
uniform rate of 2s. 6d., and at 21 years of age the con-
tributions are 6d. per week. Those above 21 pay
higher, according to the age at which they enter.
Members who have been six months in the society
receive, when unwell, aliment at the following rates :
— 10s. a week for the first six months, 7s. 6d. for the
next six months, and 5s. a week thereafter, with
medical attendance and medicine ; and at the decease
of a member his representatives receive £10 as fune-
ral allowance ; on the decease of his wife he receives
£b. Meets every alternate Wednesday. James Boyle,
12 North Coburg Street, secretary.
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.
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
£b. 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.