Friendly Visiting among the Poor: A Handbook for Charity Workers

by Mary Ellen Richmond

INDEX

Accident, damages for, 23, 104.
Addams, Miss Jane, 72.
Adequate relief, 157-159.
Adulteration of food supplies, 113.
Advertising, philanthropic, 148.
American Society for the Extension of University Teaching, 137.
Associated charities. See Charity organization societies.

Babies, care of, 77-78.
Bad temper as a cause of unemployment, 37.
Barnato, Barney, 10.
Barnett, Mrs. Samuel, 134-135.
Baths, cheap, 96.
Beale, Miss J. F., 130.
Beggars, 25-27; child, 88-89; and free soup, 149.
Beneficial and fraternal societies, 122-123; as a source of relief, 150.
Birtwell, Miss M. L., 182.
Boarding-out dependent children, 90.
Books, lending, 133.
Booth, Charles, 197.
Bosanquet, Mrs. Bernard, 18, 29, 48, 49.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, 135.
Breadwinner, the, as head of family, 17-19, 44-57; as citizen, 19-23;
as employee, 28-41; intemperate habits of, 57-63; woman as, 72-74;
child as, 81-83.
Brown, Miss Mary Willcox, 120.
Building and loan associations, 123.
Burial insurance, 110, 119-121.

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 172.
Catholic versus Protestant attitude toward the poor, 174.
Causes of poverty, 7-9; intemperance as a cause, 58; sickness, 95-96.
Character, 9.
Charitable agencies, multiplication of, 176-177.
Charity organization societies, 13, 31, 38, 55, 60, 62, 187, 189, 202.
Chattel mortgages, 115-118.
Child insurance, 122.
Child labor, 81-83, 111.
Children, of immoral parents, 49-51; of widows, 73-74, 158-159,
201-202; diet of small, 77; as breadwinners, 81-83; wayward
and dull, 83-85; reading of, 86-87; training in citizenship,
87; begging, 88-89; protection from cruelty and immorality,
89-90; boarding-out, placing-out, and institutional care of,
90-91; cleanliness for, 99; sick, 101; insuring, 122; as an
investment, 122; and stamp savings, 123; games for, 130-131;
and relief, 146.
Children's Aid societies, 85-86.
Children's charities, 76-77.
Church, the, and municipal reform, 21; and relief, 160, 167-174;
and poverty, 166-167; multiplying relations with, 168, 169;
charities of, 170-178; competition in, 171-172; as a natural
source of relief, 173-174; the chief source of the charitable
impulse, 175-176; and secular agencies, 176-177.
Church workers, who ignore the breadwinner, 18; ignore neighborhood
ties, 25, 27; ignore the fundamental conditions of family
life, 44-45; ignore the claims of children to educational
advantages, 81; allow children to be sent with begging messages, 88;
prefer to administer spiritual consolation mixed with material
relief, 144.
Citizenship, 19-23, 87.
City life versus country, 40, 82.
Cleanliness, household, 69-70; personal, 99.
Clergymen, difficulties of, in guiding church charities, 170-171;
training of, for charitable work, 178.
Collection of small savings, 124.
Commodities, relief in, versus relief in cash, 161.
Common sense, charitable skill based upon, 187.
Compulsory education, 80.
Conditions, reasonable, in granting relief, 190.
Confinement cases, 48, 103.
Consumptives, change of climate for, 105-106.
Contagious diseases, 101.
Contentment not always a virtue, 127-128.
Convalescents, 104.
Coöperation, between churches and secular charities, 176-177;
of the visitor with school-teachers, 79-80; with Sunday-school
teachers, 87; with children's aid society, 85; with
society for protection of children, 89-90; with board of
health, 96-101; with dispensaries, 100-101; with hospitals,
101-103; with district nurses, and diet kitchens, 103; with
educational agencies, 137; with relief agencies, 164, 201-202;
with churches, 177-178; with charity organization society,
187-189; with others charitably interested in family, 192.
Correspondence with families, 184-185, 199.
Country life for families, 41, 82.
Credit, buying on, 113; better than relief, 149.

Damage and accident cases, 23, 104.
Dampness, 97, 102, 110.
Day nurseries, 77.
De Graffenreid, Clare, 25.
Deserted wives, 48, 73-74.
Deserters, chronic, 48, 205.
Dickens, 2.
Diet, 67; of small children, 77.
Diet kitchens, 103.
Dietaries, scientific, 66-67.
Discontent, social value of, 127-128.
Dispensaries, 100-101.
District nurses, 103.
District visiting, 193-194.
Doctoring, relief work compared to, 154-155.
Dress and manners, taste in, 68.
Duplication of relief, 165.

Edgeworth, Miss, 2.
Education, 80-84, 92, 137-138.
Educational classes, 137.
Eliot, George, 2, 10, 34.
Eliot, Rev. Samuel A., 105.
Employees, 28-41.
Employer, as source of relief, 150; caution in making inquiries of, 189.
Employment, 28-41; fluctuating, 35; equalization of, 35-36, cautions
in finding, 40-41, 201-202; facts needed in finding, 186-188.
Exceptional cases, 7.
Exercise, outdoor, 98-99, 132.
Experience, need of, in relief work, 163-164.

Facts, necessary in relief, 156-157; in treatment, 186-188.
Family, the, head of, 17-19, 44-57; essential elements of, 45-46;
breaking up, 54-57; over-visiting, 184; brief biography
of heads of, 188.
Family budgets, 125.
Financial history of family, facts in, 188.
Fluctuating work, 35.
Food, buying and preparing, 65-67; adulteration of, 113.
Forms of relief, 160-162.
Fraternal societies, 122-123; as a source of relief, 150.
Fresh air charities, 78-79.
Fresh air, prejudice against, 97-98.
Friendly visiting, and social service, 5; need of, 13; introduction
to, 13; qualifications for, 14; and economic problems,
29; and employment, 36-41; men and women in, 41-43;
and household economy, 65-69; and school-teachers, 79;
and home libraries, 87; and the children, 91-93; and
sanitation, 97-101; and sickness, 101-106; and thrift, 111; and
savings, 124; and chattel mortgages, 116; and recreations,
129; and relief, 142-145, 183; and relief agencies, 164-165;
and churches, 177-178; what it is not, 180; results of, 181;
principles of, 182-195; patience in, 182-183; number of families
in, 182; by correspondence, 184-185; mutual relations in, 185;
and charity organization societies, 187-189; and others charitably
interested, 192; best done alone, 193; distinguished from
district visiting, 193-194; illustrations of continuous, 197-215.
Fuel, 68-69; saving for, 134.
Funerals, 119-121.

Games, 130-131.
Godkin, E. L., 21.
Gymnasiums, 132.

Health, 95-106; saving at expense of, 110.
Hill, Miss Octavia, 35, 128, 181.
Home, the, the unit of society, 44; relief should be given in, 145-146.
Home libraries, 86-87, 197-198.
Hospital care, 101; prejudice against, 101-103.
Howells, W. D., 70.
Humor, sense of, necessary in charity, 129.

Ignorance of English as a cause of unemployment, 39.
Imposture, 168-170.
Improvident poor, 112.
Inadequate relief, 157-159, 173.
Incapacity as a cause of unemployment, 34.
Incurables, 104-105.
Indiscriminate giving, 4, 6; by the poor, 25-27; weakens
neighborhood ties, 27; weakens family ties, 45-47; to
children, 88-89; materialism of, 141; results of, 157, 204-205.
Individual service, and social service, 5-6; dangers of, 7.
Industrial insurance, 120-121.
Influence, power of personal, 92-93; patience in gaining, 182-183;
of good neighbors, 197, 215-218.
Instalment purchases, 24, 113-115.
Institutional care, 162; of children, 90-91; for chronic cases, 191.
Insurance, industrial, 120-121.
Intemperance, 7, 48-49, 54, 57-63; recreations as a cure of, 132-133.
Interference with individual rights, 12.
Interim relief, 154.
Invalids, chronic, 103-104; migration of, 105-106.
Investigation, 155-157, 186-189; caution concerning inquiries of
landlords and employers, 189.