Holdings of ALMSHOUSE REGISTER
| Description | Date | Location | Images |
| 1. Almshouse Register -Admissions, Discharges & Death Register. Includes a small pox list. MISSING. | 1830-1872 | Missing |
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| 2. “Register” on spine.
Column headings with varied completeness for: REGISTER NUMBER, Ward or District, NAME, Age, SEX
(Male/Female), COLOR (White, Mulatto, Black), Date of Admission*, If Committed and by Whom, Place of
Settlement, Nativity, IF FOREIGNERS (Time in United States/At What Place Landed), OCCUPATION,
EDUCATION (Unable to Read or Write/Could Write Their Names), CIVIL CONDITION (Was never married/
Married/Widowed); HABITS (Abstinent/Moderate Drinker/Intemperate), MORAL CONDITION (No. of times
been in jail/Had frequented houses of Prostitution), RE-ADMISSION (No. of times received/Former Register
Nos.), PHYSICAL CONDITION (Able-bodied/Not able-bodied), CLASSIFICATION (Sane/Insane/Blind/Deaf
and Dumb/Hospital Cases), INMATE OF HOSPITAL (Disease/Result), Date of Discharge, How Discharged,
Number of Days supported, Cause of Pauperism, and REMARKS.
*Earliest Admission Date is 1830.
Arrangement: Chronological by year and thereunder by Inmate Registration Number.
Page 107 begins alternating sections for Almshouse and Hospital.
Index: None. | 1876-1895 | CC - Archives |
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| 3. Almshouse Register Quarterly Returns
Column headings with varied completeness for: REGISTRATION NUMBER; Ward or age; NAME; Date of
Admission; NUMBERED ADMITTED (ADULTS/white/colored; CHILDREN/White/Colored; Men/Women),
NUMBER BORN (White boys/girls; Colored boys/girls); CHARACTERISTICS OF ADULTS ADMITTED
DURING THE QUARTER (section): Residence (Residents of Almshouse District/Non-residents; NATIVITY
(other Pennsylvanians, Germans, Irish, English, Welsh, Scotch, French, Other Foreigners); EDUCATION
(Unable to Read Or Write/Could Write their Own Name); CIVIL CONDITION (Single/married/widowed);
HABITS (Abstinence/Moderate Drinking/Intemperance); Bad Morals (had been in Jail/Had frequented ill famed
houses); Physical Condition (Able-bodied/Not able); Mental Condition (Sane/Insane/idiotic); Physical Disability
(Blind/Deaf & Dumb/hospital Case); (end this section). Date of Discharge. NUMBER DISCHARGED (section):
Admission (Men/Women); Children (Boys/Girls); Color (White/Colored); HOW DISCHARGED (Dismissed/
Eloped/Died/Removed/Indentured/ Adopted); Nativity (Natives/Foreign). NUMBER REMAINING ON LAST
DAY OF QUARTER (section): Admission (Male/Female); Children (Boys/Girls); Color (White/Colored);
CLASSIFICATION (Sane, Insane, Idiotic, Blind, Deaf & Dumb, Hospital Cases); Nativity (Native/Foreign);
AGES OF CHILDREN (7yr/7-10yrs/10-16yrs); VAGRANTS (section): Male; Female; Meals Furnished;
Lodgings Furnished; Number of indigents on last day of Quarter; Total number of days in which inmates were
supported; and REMARKS.
Arrangement: Chronological by year with some years by resident registration number.
Index: None. | 1897-1922 | CC - Archives |
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