From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 31, 1915:

• “During the year just ended at Social Service League Hall, twenty persons, not including those who are there now, were brought into the place and received medical, surgical and nursing treatment, that so far as the recipient was concerned, might as well have been a gratuity in each instance. Such it was many times; in other instances either the patient or his friends or relatives made some return, but in no instance was any expected or made a condition necessary to receiving skilled, painstaking and unselfish services…. During the year the visiting nurse made 1,660 calls, an average of nearly five a day, and these calls were for the most part in the outskirts of the city – not all of them, but a majority. The public is invited to estimate the amount of travel these 1,660 calls made necessary, and remember that the time spent at each place must run from half an hour to an hour to do any good. Then remember that in addition to this work the nurse must direct affairs at the Hall, looking after the place keeping track of all its supplies, and in other words be the responsible manager…. All operations are performed free of charge. It is not even hinted to a patient or his friends that he or they are expected to make any returns…. Yet a number have paid in a degree for the services they received. Sometimes it has been a dollar, when it was doubtful there was another dollar where that came from…. In some respects the Hall is well provided for…. What it sadly lacks is modern equipment in the way of water supply. There is no water supply upon the second floor except what is carried there in pails. Of course there is no modern drainage. It is a problem merely of ‘catching everything in a basin and carrying it down stairs,’ of bringing all the water by hand and cleaning after operations in the most laborious way and by the maximum expenditure of labor…. The only death in the Hall during the year has been that of an old man, broken down, and afflicted with bronchial troubles. He was tenderly and conscientiously cared for.”
• “A straggler giving the name of Lawrence Cleveland, was found night before last in the Union Pacific yards, where he fell from a freight car not far from the passenger depot. He was taken to Social Service League Hall, and is there now, in charge of a physician and the visiting nurse. He has numerous cuts and many bruises, the latter of which are the more dangers. His condition would not necessarily be serious but for his general physical condition, which is not encouraging. Cleveland says he is 19 years old.”
• “While lighting the furnace at the Eldridge hotel this morning, Walter Workman, the day clerk, sustained a badly scorched hand. The gas flared from the furnace door. Workman’s injury was exceedingly painful.”