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shows.’ 'h-V- ; * Total income of $164,688 for the organization’s operations last year, was just $2l8 less than the amount available in 1953, the figures show. Details of the 1954 operations Were given to the board of directors Monday afternoon at its annual meeting. Samuel M, Be- , miss, the president presided. Details of the operations of the 55year-old organization were explained by J. W. Stuart Gilchrist, the general secretary.. Mrs. D. D. Miller has served as chairman of the work for the Children’s Home Society in this section and through her efforts and the efforts of those with whom she has worked, many contributions have been sent to help in the work of the Society. . Last year, the Society received 141 new babies into care. There •were 104 babies received in 1953; 105 in 1952; and 100 in 1951. The total number of children in the care of the Society last year was 330 as compared with 287 in 1953; 283 in 1952; and 272 in 1951. '
Last year, there were 521 requests for adoptions and with 47i requests pending at the end of 1953, the Society had 994 requests for adopted babies. Only 98 babies were legally adopted from the Society last year. Twenty-two babies were returned to their parents, leaving slightly over 200 babies in the care of the Society at the end of the year. .
Last year the Society also helped % babies although they were not placed for adoption. Of this number, 21 were given some care in one of the Society’s boarding homes. . .
At the end of the year, the Society had 53 babies in boarding homes under study. At the same time, the Society was supervising 153 babies it had placed in adoptive homes, y ' . \y ■ ' Income for the' Society’s opera•
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