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Miss Laura McKinstry became interested in the
work and collected sufficient money to make a
beginning. Miss L. A. Craighan, a certificated
graduate at the Training School of the City and
County Hospital, volunteered to take charge. The
stipend paid barely suffices for living expenses;
but Miss Craighan has consecrated her life to this
most necessary work among the poor and requires
no more than is sufficient to carry on the work.
The task of collecting subscriptions having become
difficult, Miss McKinstry has retired from the
undertaking, having given Miss Craighan sufficient
to keep the charity going for several months. The
task of collecting sufficient means now devolves on
Miss Craighan herself. She has formed the nucleus
of a band of monthly subscribers. It will take
seventy-five dollars a month to keep the work with
one nurse in a state of efficiency; but there is
need for two and three and even more nurses in this
great City.
Miss Craighan's address is 33 Welsh street, and
the telephone number, Red 4538.
The claims of this great charity are brought
before the Catholic people and the Catholic societies
of San Francisco in the hope that they may see
their way to lend a helping hand. Our Lord Himself
it is that promises the reward to those who
fulfill His saying: "I was sick, and ye visited me."