Respectfully,
John Way, Treasurer.
We the undersigned members of the Audit Committee, have examined the foregoing account of John Way, Treasurer, compared the payments with the vouchers, and believe the same to be correct.
We have also examined securities in the hands of our agents, The Provident Life and Trust Company of Philadelphia, and find them to agree with the list thereto attached.
| Philadelphia January 1, 1919. | JOHN A. DUNCAN, |
| ISAAC P. MILLER, | |
| Auditing Committee. |
REPORT OF GENERAL AGENT FREDERICK J. POOLEY.
During the year 1918 the Agent made daily visits to the cell-room at the Central Station at City Hall. Twenty thousand and thirty-nine men and women prisoners were detained there for preliminary trial, 15,933 of whom the Agent visited while at the Central Station and the remainder after they arrived at Moyamensing Prison.
| Number visited at County Prisons | 2,829 |
| Number of notices and letters written on their behalf | 1,888 |
| Number discharged prisoners receiving financial aid | 345 |
The opportunities for helpful service are very numerous. In a large number of cases of suspicion or of a trivial character, the Agent has been instrumental in securing the discharge of the prisoners, or in placing them under the care of the Probation Officer, thus saving their family from disgrace and the County from expense.
It might be of interest to mention a few cases of interest.
No. 1. A young man from the west, arrested as a suspicious character, had been from home nine years, and was held for a hearing. The Agent got in touch with his relatives and he was discharged and sent home.