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Excerpt from Papers of 1873, What Shall Philadelphia Do for Its Paupers?: Read March 27, 1873
In the first place, we have those who, in consequence of mis fortune, or sickness, or innate shiftlessness, or feebleness resulting from vicious indulgences, have become unable to support them selves. Secondly, we have those who are laboring under-actual disease, and become inmates of the hospital. Thirdly, we have those who are both paupers and insane. Fourthly, we have chil dren, some without parents, some deserted by parents, and some foundlings. On last New Year's day the first class numbered about the second, the third 895 and the fourth 104.
In regard to the first requisite in any system of public support, that of rigid economy, or, more properly speaking, of a small expenditure, certainly no fault can be found with the Philadelphia almshouse. For the year 1872 the average cost was per person per week.
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