Jews Orphan Asylum. Norwood. Source: Wolf, p. 602. Click on image to enlarge it.
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“The community maintain two orphan asylums, ten sets of almshouses, two loan societies, eleven general philanthropic societies, two asylums for aged poor, a soup-kitchen, a deaf and dumb home, two convalescent homes, an association for preventive and rescue work, a temporary shelter for foreign immigrants, a visitation committee for prisons, hospitals, lunatic asylums, &c., two funds for augmenting the salaries of insufficiently paid ministers, two marriage portion societies, and minor societies for relief during the festivals and on Sabbaths, for assisting the aged destitute, for distributing pensions, penny dinners, bread, meat, and coal, and other necessaries, for relieving distressed widows and the indigent blind, and for assisting in the expenses of circumcisions and mournings. There are also a lying-in charity, and an emigration society, and at the great East End are Jewish wards partly endowed. Besides these charities, there are in the community twenty-two friendly societies, a club for working-men, three choral societies, and a literary society” (604).
Bibliography
Wolf, Lucien. “The Jews in London.” 40 (16 November 1889): 599-604. Hathi Trust online version of a copy in the New York Public Library. Web. 17 July 2021.
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