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Mary Day Nursery (Children's Hospital)

October 18, 1890, the “Heart and Hand" and the " Wayside" Circles of the Order of the King's Daughters, jointly established a Day Nursery, for the purpose of giving a home during the day to the children of working women, being temporarily given the use of a room in the Home of the Union Charity Association, 116 South High street, the members, on organization, being: Mrs, Mary Raymond, president; Miss Anna Ganter, vice president; Miss Carita McEbright, secretary; Miss Bessie Raymond, treasurer; Misses Belle Adams, Gertrude Commins, Addie Commins, Julia Crouse, Mary Crouse. Mrs. Rose Christie, Misses Belle Green, Helen Humphrey, Maud Watters, Mary Buell, Lizzie Griffin, Martha Henry, Julia McGregor, Mary Miller, Helen Storer, Harriet Wise and Alice Work. 

Rules for receiving and caring for children in the nursery, were adopted as follows:

I. No child shall be received permanently in the nursery, until the chairman is satisfied, by thorough investigation that such child is a proper subject for admission,

 II. No children can be kept at the nursery, but those whose mothers are at work away from their homes during the day, or are engaged at home in such work for wages that they cannot give their children proper care.

 III. The admission fee shall be five cents a day for one child; twelve cents where three come from one family; fifteen cents where four come from one family.

 IV. No child shall be admitted free of charge, nor unless the mother is willing to conform to, and have her child obey the rules of the nursery.

 V. No child shall be received before 6:30 A. M., or remain after 7 P. N.

 VI. No child shall be received in the nursery, who has any contagious disease or who comes from a home where such disease exists.

 VII. The matron shall see that every child is properly washed, on arrival in the nursery, and neatly dressed, when necessary in garments from the nursery wardrobe. These garments shall never be worn away from the nursery.

Besides liberal contributions from several persons, funds have from time to time been raised by tableaux and other entertainments, so that the expenses of this most worthy benevolent enterprise have thus far been readily met, for of course, the moderate per diem fee charged for admission and care of such children as come to them will not go far towards defraying the cost of its maintenance, one of the most successful entertainments in its behalf being the musicale given at Irving Lawn, the fine new home of Col. and Mrs. A. L. Conger, on the evening of September 21, 1891, by which $200 were added to the treasury.