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APPENDIX. 109
premises in Mount Pleasant Street having been purchased by the
School Board, a new home was erected in Brachelston Street, and
formally opened in October, 1887. The Home is principally supported
by voluntary subscriptions. Directors and Trustees — Messrs R. Little,
D. Campbell, M. Hill, R. Hamilton, A. M. Fleming, J. Kinloch, J. W.
Black, R. Chalmers, Rev. J. P. Struthers, M.A., and Rev. A. Corbet ;
president, Mrs Brymner; vice-presidents, Mrs Prentice and Mrs Wilson;
treasurer, Miss Henrietta B. Carmichael (Milnwood) ; secretary, Miss
Stark, 17 Fox Street; chaplain, Rev. J. F. Macpherson, B.D.
Matron, Miss Birrell.
GREENOCK MEDICAL AID AND SICK NURSING SOCIETY.
Home, 15 Caddlehill Terrace — Miss Murdoch, Matron.
John Scott, Esq., C.B., president ; Rev. John Trew, vice-president;
Mr William Auld, writer, secretary ; Mr Alexander Allan, C.A.,
treasurer ; Dr Marshall, Dr Wilson, Dr Laurie, Messrs Joseph D.
Scott, James M 'Gavin, Robert Binnie, Robert Chalmers, John
Gilchrist, H. R. B. Peile, and Alex. P. Lyle, acting committee, with
office-bearers ex officiis members of committee. The object of the society
is to provide medical comforts and attendance in the "Home" and
in the residences of the patients, for persons resident in Greenock,
or in the parish of Inverkip . (which includes Gourock) and Port-
Glasgow, labouring under incurable disease, or others who, not
incurable, may require nursing and treatment, and are incapable of
earning a livelihood. The Directors have also appointed Miss Frost, a
trained nurse, to visit in the homes of the sick poor. Application for
her services to be made at the "Home," or to the Secretary of the
Society.
BUCHANAN NIGHT ASYLUM.
By Codicil and Deed of Foundation, dated 4th December, 1 862,.
Mr James Campbell Buchanan of Bagatelle, Greenock, bequeathed
^4000 in trust of his Trustees, viz. : — Messrs John Graham, Peter
M'Naughton, Colin Lamont, jun., James Reid, Thomas Oliphant
Hunter, and William Clark, in conjunction with Mr Alexander
Rodger, the Provost of Greenock, the Sheriff- Substitute at Greenock,
and the President of Greenock Seamen's Friends' Society, all for the
time being, along with two or more persons to be appointed by
the Town Council and Police Board, for the purpose of founding an
"Asylum at Greenock to afford shelter during night to poor persons
without a home and to supply them with a nourishing meal on entering
and leaving the Asylum." In terms of the Codicil, the Town Council
and Police Board are appointed Trustees of the Asylum. ■ A building
is now erected in Captain Street, in which persons are accommodated
according to the testator's wishes. Louson Walker, C. A., secretary and
treasurer, 33 Cathcart Street.
HOUSE OF REFUGE, OR SHELTER FOR FEMALES,
Ingleston. — Instituted 1853,
Mrs James Reid, president; Miss Mary Hunter, vice-president ; Mr
John Cunningham, secretary and treasurer; Rev. Mr Struthers, chaplain ;.