Excerpt from Manual for Visitors Among the Poor: With a Classified and Descriptive Directory to the Charitable and Beneficent Institutions of Philadelphia The Commission met on the 24th of June, and at once ordered the formation of an Executive Committee of nine, including the treasurer and organizing secretary, to execute the trust imposed upon the Commission in the intervals between its sessions. The summer was passed in various negotiations and consultations, and in the preparation of plans of procedure to be set on foot in the fall, when the city should receive again its summer absentees, and when the members of charitable boards of the churches and the private philanthropists of Philadelphia should be again in their accustomed places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.