The Sick Diet Kitchen is accommodated in the wellappointed room in the back building (vide Diet Kitchen).

The Home for Consumptives is located on the upper floors, separate wards being provided for male and female patients, who are destitute of an abiding place (vide Home for Consumptives).

Superintendent,

Rev. SAMUEL DURBOROW,

Office, No. 411 Spruce Street.

Societies for the Employment of the Poor.

The following Institutions may be merely enumerated. Information concerning them may be obtained by application to the officers :

Western Association of the Ladies of Philadelphia, for the Relief and Employment of the Poor, 19 South Seventeenth Street.

Ladies' Depository Association, 1024 Walnut Street. To provide ladies in reduced circumstances with work, or to receive any work they may desire to deposit for sale.

St. Peter's House (P. E.), S. W. corner of Front and Pine Streets.

The Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen in the Communion of the P. E. Church of Pennsylvania, 212 South Fourth Street.

Children's Aid Society, 1602 Chestnut Street.

City Refuge for Harmless and Suffering Animals, 1242 Lombard Street.

Bethany Mission for Colored People, Brandywine and Sixteenth Streets.

Female Association for Relief of Sick and Infirm Poor, Race and Fifteenth Streets.

Christmas Fund for Disabled P. E. Clergymen, 421 Chestnut Street.

Presbyterian Relief Fund for Disabled Ministers, 1334 Chestnut Street.

Preachers' Aid Society (Methodist), 1018 Arch Street. Bishop Potter Memorial House, Front and Huntingdon Streets.

Children's Country Week Association, 1112 Girard

Street.

Relief and Charity Society. Imp. O. F. S. of I. To supply the poor of this order with a Physician and medicine.

"Frauen-hulfs-Vereins Esrath Nashim." To supply respectable married women with financial and medical assistance at the time of their delivery. E. Saller, Secretary.

Sunday Breakfast Association, N. W. corner of Eleventh and Wood Streets.

Soup Societies.

Philadelphia Society for Supplying the Poor with Soup, 338 Griscom Street.

Western Soup Society, 1615 South Street.

Southwark Soup Society, Sutherland

Street.

near Queen

Moyamensing Soup Society, 926 South Eighth Street. Richmond Soup Society, 1095 Ann Street, Richmond. Spring Garden Soup Society, 1329 Buttonwood Street. Kensington Soup Society, 1036 Crease Street. Northern Soup Society, 817 North Fourth Street.

Northwestern Soup House, Nineteenth and Thompson

Streets.

Northeastern Soup House, 1930 North Front Street.

Twentieth Ward Soup Society, Eleventh and Jefferson

Streets.

Central Soup and Bath House, 709 Cherry Street. Opened in 1864. Free to all well-disposed persons. Hot and cold water.

Supported by voluntary contributions.

Biddle. Secretary, Wm. Garrigues.

Treasurer, C. M.

Society of the United Hebrew Charities, 325 North Fifth Street. Secretary, Ab. Goldsmith.

Beneficial Societies of Resident Foreigners or Persons of Foreign Descent.

St. Andrew's Society, organized in 1749. 102 Chestnut Street. President, A. C. Fergusson. Secretary, Craig D. Ritchie.

Society of the Sons of St. George, established in 1772. President, John Lucas. Secretary, H. C. King. St. George's Hall, Thirteenth and Arch Streets.

Welsh Society, founded in 1798. 133 South Fifth Street. President, H. G. Jones. Secretary, D. T. Davies.

Albion Society, incorporated 1865. 109 South Third Street. President, William Elliott. Secretary, H. R. Day.

Hibernian Society, 138 South Front Street. President, Wm. J. Neal. Secretary, N. J. Griffin.

German Society of Pennsylvania, 24 South Seventh Street. President, J. C. Pile. Secretary, J. Bernt.

French Benevolent Society, chartered 1835. 118 South Delaware Avenue. Fresident, H. A. Pintard. Secretary, G. G. Dressoulas.

Swiss Benevolent Association, Fourth and Wood Streets. Chartered 1865. President, R. Koradi. Secretary, G. E. Oberer. Scandinavian Society, 347 North Third Street.

The Italian Society, 746 South Eighth Street.

Musical Fund Society, Hall, Locust Street above Eighth. Volunteer Firemen's Funeral Relief Association, 505 North Eighth Street.

Medical Journal and Book Clubs.

The Philadelphia Medical Book Club.

President: Dr. James H. Hutchinson.

Secretary: Dr. R. H. Allison.

Treasurer: Dr. R. P. Harris.

Samuel Jackson Medical Journal Club.

President: Dr. A. C. Deakyne.

Secretary and Treasurer: Dr. H. F. Baxter.

Wood Medical Journal Club.

President Dr. B. Lee.

Secretary: Dr. W. R. D. Blackwood.

The George B. Wood Medical Journal Club.

President Dr. Jas. B. Walker.

Secretaries: Dr. Chas. Styer,

Dr. H. A. Smith.

Treasurer: Dr. J. G. Heilman.

West Philadelphia Medical Book Club and Library Association.

President: Dr. J. W. Baker.

Treasurer: Dr. C. A. McCall.

Secretary: Dr. S. S. Stryker.

Medical Club of Eight.

President: Dr. R. G. Curtin.

Secretary and Treasurer: Dr. W. H. H. Githens.

The Board of Commissioners of Public Charities of the State of Pennsylvania,

1224 CHESTNUT STREET,

Have supervision of all reformatory, correctional, and charitable institutions of the State; and all such institutions now receiving or that may hereafter desire to receive State aid shall annually give notice to the general agent, on or before the first day of November in each year, of the amount of any application for State aid that they may propose to make, and of the several purposes to which such aid, if granted, is to be applied.