Sex workers were known as prostitutes. Senor citizens were simply old folks. And local institutions in Philadelphia pulled no punches in spelling out their purpose.
Here are a few examples:
The Edwin Forrest Home for Decayed Actors
Pennsylvania Training School for the Idiotic and Feeble-Minded Children
Inglis House for Incurables
Northern Home for Friendless Children
Ralston House for Widows and Single Women
Franklin Reformatory Home for Inebriates
The Bettering House of Employment
Blockley Almshouse
Union Home for Old Ladies
Union Home for Old Ladies
Old Ladies Home of Philadelphia
The House of Industry
Saint Edmond’s Home for Crippled Children
House of Saint Michael’s
All Angels for Crippled Colored Children
Guardians of the Poor