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Excellent geneaological & historical resource. Includes long list (ca. 550 names) of cash donors with amounts given at end; ; long list (ca. 400 names) of donors of clothing, mostly women, with dates of donations; & 42 name list of donors of cash "in memorium," all in amounts between S20.00-S2500.00. Preceeded by: United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York. Board of Relief., "Annual report of the Board of Relief of the United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York." Succeeded by: United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York, "Annual report and proceedings of the ... annual meeting of the United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York".
The United Hebrew Charities (U.H.C.) was formed in 1874 by six philanthropic societies. In addition to poor relief, U.H.C. operated an employment bureau and a vocational training school, granted loans to aid families launching small businesses, and maintained a work room where women were paid while they learned one of the garment trades. Its medical department employed a physician, visiting nurses, and social workers who handled home births and consumption cases. In 1911 U.H.C. opened a bureau to meet the problems of family desertion. U.H.C. expenditures rose from $46,000 in 1880, to $153,000 in 1900, to $344,000 in 1917. In 1886, 2,500 applied for assistance, and in 1900, 23,264 asked for aid. Beginning in 1901, the number of families receiving material aid decreased steadily from 8,125 to 6,014 in 1916.
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