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morning a child can be brought to the nursery, where it will be kept and cared for by a capable woman until 7 o'clock in the evening. During this time the child is properly fed, the older children receiving two good meals and the smaller ones are given the proper nourishment. No extra charge is made for these extra adminis- trations.

An average of sixteen children are cared for daily, says Miss Frost, who for three years has been matron of the nursery, which number, she says, consists of children of many nationalities ; colored children, Egyptians, Austrians, Norwe- gians and Danes.

Children of any age under six are eligible to be admitted to the nursery, but before the nurse will accept them, they must pass a medical examination, and be vaccinated.

The nursery consists of eight rooms, cribs and cots being in evidence in all of the rooms except the kitchen and playroom. The kitchen is furnished with little low tables and baby chairs of all sizes.

The president of the society in a recent report says : '*We have, during the past year, furnished nurses, drugs, medical attendance, fuel, bedding, clothing of all kinds, paid house rent, hospital expenses and made two payments to satisfy a chattel mortgage on furniture, in addition to the weekly distribution of provi- sions, etc. Visits were made to St. Agnes Home, St. Joseph's Home, and the regu- lar May-day concert and treat furnished the inmates of the county poor farm.

Christmas day was made memorable to thirty-five children by the fact that the mission provided them with toys and goodies.

One-half the expense of maintaining a housekeeper for five motherless chil- dren, and for the keeping of a young man afflicted with tuberculosis at the Open Air Sanitorium is paid by the mission.

Total receipts same year $4,132

Total expenditures 2,392

Cash in treasury $1,803"

THE VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION.

This most worthy institution is a cooperative union between several other char- itable associations for the purpose of making more effective and speedy their good work It was early seen that trained nurses must be within the command of char- itably disposed people whenever their services were needed, if aid was offered or to be had. People that were sick, or wounded, or suffering for the need of help, could not put off their sickness or wounds to a more convenient season. They must have help at once if helped at all ; and a nurse's home or station, must be provided and nurses retained and be ready to go on telephone calls ; and so to secure these ends this association was organized in the year 1902, and has been at work in Portland ever since, yearly extending its most beneficent services to the poor and unfortunate.

At present the advisory board of the association is made up of the Needle Work Guild, represented by Miss Annie Cremen ; The Woman's Club, repre- sented by Mrs. Jennie C. Pritchard ; St. Anne's Society, represented by Mrs. James Lotan ; the Council of Jewish Women, represented by Mrs. Alexander Bernstein, and the Woman's Alliance of the Unitarian church, represented by Mrs. C. W. Burrage.

From the report of the president, Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull, it is seen that the association not only aims to extend timely aid to the sick and poverty stricken, but also find out the conditions of a community where their services are in demand, from unsanitary conditions. Says Mrs. Trumbull, "If after we learn that a cer- tain neighborhood in our city always has cases of a certain character, and we have visited that neighborhood and find that the lodging houses have wre