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PAISLEY DIRECTORY.
Mission to the Out-door Blind for Glasgow and West of Scotland.
Instituted 1859.
The Renfrewshire Branch has under its care 160 blind persons. These persons are sought
•out, visited at their homes, taught to read and provided with hooks in raised type free of charge.
The great majority being deprived of sisflit at, or near, middle life, and being rendered thereby
unfit to follow their ordinary occupations, means are used to find employment for them suited
to their altered circumstances, and the aged and infirm are assisted by monthly pensions.
Office and Library — 221 Buchanan street, Glasgow.
Local Missionary — J. Cameron Gribben, 4 Crossflat Crescent.
Paisley Ladies' Committee.— President— },lvs. George Coats, Stanley. Joiat-Conveiuvs^
Mrs. Ernest S . Coats. Balgonie ; Mrs. P. H. Coats. Corsebar.
The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Childrem.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1895.)
Patrons — The Kin^^ and Queen.
Paisley Branch formed November, 1902.
Executive Committee —
President — Sir Thomas Glen-Coats, Bart., Ferguslie Park.
Vice-President — Provost Bell. Com//i<«ee— Clergymen, and Gentlemen of the Town and
District.
Honorary Treasurer — J. E. Murray, Union Bank.
Honorary Secretary — D. A. Morrison, Writer, 97 High Street, Paisley.
Inspector and Officer — Alfred J. Lapham, 24 Argyle Street, Paisley.
Persons knowing of assault or ill-treatment, including abandonment or exposure of any
children, should communicate immediately with the Honorary Secretary, or with the
Inspector, Mr Lapham, at 24 Argyle Street, Paisley. Donations of cast-off clothing,
•especially for children, can be judiciously distributed, and will be thankfully received by
the Inspector.
Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor.
President — Sir Thomas Glen-Coats. Baronet.
Vice-Presidents — Stewart Clark, Peter Jack, and J. Ross Macgregor.
Hon. Treasurers — William R. Finlator, 19 High street, and Matthew Woodrow, Thornly Park,
Hon. Secretaries — Peter Eadie, Wakefield, and J. Balderston Whyte, C.A., 19 High street.
Superintendent — Miss Jane Bell, 4 Greenlaw avenue.
Office-bearers elected yearly in the month of December.
Office of the Association — 112 Causeyside. Fire Lighter Factory — MacKean «treet.
The Paisley Society for Treatment of Diseases considered Incurable.
The object for which the Society is established is to maintain a Home for Paisley and neigh-
bourhood fitted for the reception of such cases as are considered Incurable, and unsuited for
treatment in an ordinary Infirmary, or in the homes of the Patients.
GLENIFFER HOME, CORSEBAR ROAD.
Committee of Management for 1905.
President — Archibald Coats of Woodside
Sir H. H. Smiley, Bart. I John E. Murray I George Barclay
Rev. John Porteous | Rev. George Park 1 Wm. H. Coats
John Armour Brown Rev. G. J. Tait I Rev. R. C. Strang
Francis Martin I George H. Coats | P. Herbert Coats
J. G. Thomson
Hon. Medical (J^oer— Donald Eraser, M.D. Assistant— G. W. Coats, M.B.
Matron — Miss Craig.
Hon. Secretary— S&mQ ?, H. Dunn, writer, -"a Gilmour street. Trea surer — ^Jumefi F. Johnstone.
Paisley and District Mission to the Deaf and Dumb.
Established 1880.
Objects : —
1. To provide extended Religious and Si^cular Instruction among the Deaf and Dumb in Paisley
and the surrounding district, after they have quitted school.
2. To visit the Sick, Unemployed, and other Deaf and Dumb persons at their homes.
2.1a assist the Deaf and Dumb who have good characters in obtaining employment.
4. To provide an Interpreter where necessary.
5. To grant relief in cases found to be really deserving.
President— ¥vowost Bell Vice-Presidents— %\v Wm. Dunn, Bart., M.P.. Sir C. Bine Renshaw,
Bart., M.P.. sir Thos. Glen-Coats, Bart., and Kenneth M. Clark.
Hon. Treasurer— T\\om&& Russell. Clydesdale Bank.
Missionary— Tltv. J. Henderson. Royal Institute for Deaf and Dumb, W. Regent street. Glasgow.
Secretary — Robert Semple. 17 Maxwellton street. Paisley.
Collector— WiWi&m Wright, Royal Institute for Deaf and Dumb, West Regent street, Glasgow.
Mission Hall, 109 Causeyside.