The Zoar Home has a social department, and guests and 
children have to apply to this department when, so far, no 
other organization has made a thorough investigation of 
their need of shelter. It co-operates with different welfare 
organizations in this work. Children who can be placed in 
private homes for adoption are under the strict supervision of 
the home’s physicians before being allowed to leave the 
institution. 
A training school for nurses was established the second 
year of the institution’s existence for the purpose of training 
young women to care for these little lives in a scientific 
manner. A staff of physicans co-operate with the manage- 
ment of the Institution to further this most needed work. 
Since the opening of the home in 1915 to January 1, 
1928, it sheltered 2,079 infants. Mrs. E. Schmitz is the 
manager.