ASSOCIATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS 
360 Welfare and social associations and 
institutions 
This covers what is best known as ‘‘ Charities and corrections,” and general 
works on this topic go in 360. Under each section .g is used as in 362.9, for 
grouping by location; e. g. Clubs of London ar 367.9421 
Clas under 360 all which concerns welfare work, insurance, and associations having a 
social caracter and not devoted to some special field. Those devoted to some special 
field (religious, commercial, scientific, art, sporting, literary etc.) ar clast under their 
own subject divisions. See also 060 General societies; 334 Cooperativ societies 
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Charitable 
See also 377.7 Charity schools, For humane societies see 179.2 
Principles of welfare work 
Responsibility, charity, philanthropy, mutual aid 
Medical aid in general 
Medicin for poor; free medicin; medical and pharamceutic aid 
See also 362.1 Hospitals for sick and wounded 
Aid according to place where given 
In country or city, at home or in institutions 
Aid according to person resieving 
See also 362 
Aid according to kind 
Funeral expenses 
Certain exceptional cases 
Calamities, disasters, plagues 
Earthquakes 
Floods 
War 
Epidemics 
Famine 
Fire 
Official or public aid in general 
Private aid in general 
Contributions Charity entertainments 
Charity organization 
United work; cooperation and association of charitable works: charity 
information bureaus 
Hospitals, asylums, and allied societies 
Discussions of purpose, nature and caracter 
Sick and wounded 
See also 361.1 Medical aid in general 
General hospitals Contagious wards, pesthouses 
Infirmaries 
Treatment at hospitals 
Dispensaries 
Sanitariums and bath establishments 
Special sanitariums: for incurables, cancer patients, lepers, epileptics, con- 
sumptivs, inebriates. Sanitariums at high altitudes. Baths and watercures. 
Fetabhlichments for tea baths 
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