Towns > Glasgow > 1828-1912 - Post-Office annual Glasgow directory > 1896-1897

140
CHARITABLE AND FRIENDLY INSTITUTIONS.
GLASGOW BROWNS' SOCIETY.
Members of this society must bear the name of
Brown, or be connected with persons of that name,
as husbands, or sons, or sons-in-law, or grandsons.
Each entrant shall contribute at least two guineas
on becoming a member, but a larger contribution
may be given by any one so disposed. Donations are
received from persons of any name, and every contri-
butor of one guinea, at least, shall be considered an
honorary member. The annual General Meeting is
held on the second Thursday of March; Managers'
meetings on the first Thursday of March, June,
Sep., and Dec. The annual produce of the capital
stock is from time to time applied towards relieving
necessitous members, or their widows or children, and
may be employed in placing the children of indigent
members at trades or schools.
Secretary, William MacLean (of MacLean, Fjfe,
& MacLean), writer, 115 St. Vincent St.
WESTERN FRIENDLY SOCIETY.
Cauvin S. Alston, president ; W. A.Thompson, vice-
president ; W. Nelson, ex-pres. ; W. J. Wood, M. L.
Buchanan, W. D. Noble, Duncan M'Naughtan, John
Grove, jun., James R. Motion, James Stewart, James
M'Lay, C.A., Andrew L. Fleming, E. R. Lyall, John
Paterson, C.A., and James A. M'Leith, directors;
H. Pollock, T. Menzies, and Geo. Browne, trustees;
Dr. R. Pollok, Laurieston House, PoUokshields,
medical adviser; Jc:hn Mann, C.A., manager. Mem-
bers (after one year's probation) are entitled to 10s.
6d. or 21s. per week during sickness, however pro-
tracted, and immediately after the entry money is
paid the society becomes liable for the funeral money
of £10 or £20, as may have been contributed for.
An annuity of £6 or £12 is provided to all members
after 70 years of age, when the contributions cease.
For the year ending 31st Dec, 1895, £1789 5s. 9d.
were paid as benefits from the funds of the society,
and from the society's origin in 1832 a total of
£45,217 2s. 4d. has been so paid. The total funds
amount to £33,582 11a. Cd. The entry money is
one quarter's contribution (which ranges from 4s.
lOd. at 19, to lis. 7^d. at 45). Office, 188 St.
Vincent Street. ,
THE DORCAS SOCIETY FOR THE CITY OF
GLASGOW, BELVIDERE, KNIGHTSWOOD,
AND GOVAN COMBINATION FEVER AND
SMALL POX HOSPITALS.
Pres., Mrs. Playfair, 12 Woodside Terrace; secre-
tary, Miss Telford ; treasurer, Mrs. Barclay, 6 Cole-
brook Terrace.
The aim of the Society is to provide warm clothing
for the poor fever patients when about to be dis-
missed from the comforts of the hospitals to their own
homes. In too many cases their original clothing is
scanty and utterly insufficient to protect even a
vigorous person from the cold. But for the aid of
the society they would, when divested of the warm
suits provided for use within the hospital, be sent
out in tattered garments, as well as with enfeebled
bodies, almost certainly to the permanent injury of
their health. The utmost care is taken that the
articles are given to the needy and deserving only.
There is no convalescent home for poor fever patients.
GLASGOW AND WEST OF SCOTLAND
CO-OPERATION FOR TRAINED NURSES.
18 Sardinia Terrace, Hillbead.
(Established to secure to Nurses full remuneration
for their work.)
President, Mrs John Elder; committee of manage-
ment. Professor Joseph Coats, M.D. (chairman), Miss
Burnet, Nurse Campbell, Mrs. A. A Fergusson, Mrs.
R. G. Finlay, J. D. Hedderwick, Nur.5e Hutchison, Miss
M. H. M'Clure, A. Ernest Maylard, B.S., Mrs. James
Muir, David Newman, M.D., Mrs. Robert Orr, Nurse
Penman, Alexander Ro^e, W. F. Somerville, M. D.,
Nurse Waite ; hon. pbyi-icians, Robert Perry, M.D.,
and J. Walkce Anderson, M. D. ; hon. surgeons.
Prof. H. E. Clark, M.R.C S.,and D. Newman, M.D.;
hon. treasurer, James Mair, C.A., 149 West George
Street; hon. secretary, J. B. Duuglas, 157 St. Vin-
cent Street.
The objects of the Co-operation are — (o) To estab-
lish in Glasgow a ceLtral register for thoroughly
trained nu'ses, where they may bo engaged by medical
practitioners and the public; (6) to provide nurses
with regular employment, and at the same time a
full remuneration for their services ; (c) to establish
in Glasgow a central home where, while off duty,
nurses may live comfortably at moderate charges;
{(1) to provide a fund for the benefit of the nurses of
the Co-operation.
Fully trained nurses supplied any lime during the
day or night. Applications to be made to Miss H.
M. Rough, Lady Superintendent.
Telephone No. 2363.
Telegraphic address — "Nurses," Glasgow.
SONS OF TEMPERANCE FRIENDLY SOCIETY'
Gkand Division of Scotland.
This Society is composed entirely of total abstainers,
and is thus enabled to give the same benefits as non-
abstainiog societies for a smaller contribution. Uni-
form entrance fee 2s. 6d.; contributions from 2|d. per
week according to age and benefiis. Benefits 6s.,
10s., 15s., or 20s. weekly in sickness, £5 or £10 at
death, medicine and attendance free. Funeral fund
only, payments from one halfpenny weekly; sums
insured, £5 to £60; children of members eligible for
insurance.
Charles Glen. Milton Cottages, Jamestown,
Grand Worthy Patriarch; John Moodie, 30 Nithsdale
Street, Strathbungo, Glasgow, Grand Sci-ibe; Thomas
M'Kinlay, 104 West Graham Street, Glasgow,
Grand Treasurer.
THE CLYDE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SHIP
" EMPRESS."
Stationed at Row, Gareloch.
President, Sir John Burns, Bart., of Castle Wemyss;
executive committee — chairman, A. C. Henderson;
deputy-chairman, R. Bennett Browne ; Robt. Chrystal,
D. Crawford, R. H. Dunn, George Gray, Capt. John
Hardie, James Lilburn, J. Burns MacBrayne, E. S.
Macharg, Capt. William Meiklereid, William Newton,
James Cuthbert, John A. Roxburgh, Glasgow, and
W. 0. Leitch, Greenock; secretary, George Gray,
County Buildings ; treasurer, E. S. Macharg, C.A.,
Herald Buildings, Buchanan Street.