The Associated Charities of Cambridge has three district
secretaries and a visiting housekeeper besides the general secre-
tary. The medical social service consists of twelve visiting
nurses, two of whom are school nurses, and one paid worker in the
social service department of the hospital. One organization with
a general secretary and one assistant takes charge of all the dis-
tinctively children's work in the city. Starting as an institution
for the care of destitute children it has now become a home for
sick and convalescent children, with a placing-out agency for those
who are destitute. The Young Women's Christian Association
supports six general workers and six teachers in the industrial
department. Four paid positions are found in the three settle-
ments employing women, in addition to a playground director,
a nurse, a nursery matron, and the teachers of industries and
domestic science. The Park Department of the city employs
about twenty women during July and August in the children's
playgrounds. Two of the churches have salaried assistants, the
stipend of one outranking that of any social worker in the
city.
