(1) Suppress the poor insufficient houses,
(2) Provide adequate return on capital,
(3) Lead to the rise of still better accommodation for working men.
A Municipal lodging-house should be linked to remedial agencies, and a chain should exist on routes of travel.
Especially for women, municipal lodging-houses are a necessity. With regard to the question of "bunks" versus "beds," it is strange that while on the one hand for sanitary reasons the Government allows plank beds and wire mattresses, it is about to enforce for a class confessedly dirtier (see Vagrancy Report, 335) a universal bed. The idea that "inspection" can keep beds clean without stoving is futile. Some of the vermin most troublesome to get rid of are microscopic. Also the idea that people undress to go to bed, and do not undress in a bunk, is not correct. The class that possess only "what they stand up in" possess no night garments. Women keep some of their garments on. Men may undress (for protection from vermin). All the garments not worn all night are usually tucked into the bed for fear of thefts. I have seen women undressing similarly in a bunk. The Salvation Army keeps its shelters spotlessly clean and free from vermin. Unless cleansing of the person is compelled by law, all that can be done for the lowest class of all is to provide some easily cleansed resting-place (see p. [30]. Something must be done to prevent the scandal of "sleeping out" in our wealthy cities.
The popularity of the Shelter shows it meets a social need. Also in connection with public institutions, remedial action and sorting into classes is possible, which is impossible in places provided for private profit. We should aim at getting every individual into a safe and sanitary shelter at night. How can a destitute woman find 3s. 6d. per week for bare shelter? If she pays this should not it entitle her to a place which is clean, where she can keep herself clean, and can keep her self-respect?
[INDEX.]
Aboriginal Vagrant, [2]
Admission, Refusal of, [29]
Afforestation, [77]
Agricultural Vagrancy, [5], [83]
Appenzell, [310]
Beggars, [11], [19], [97]-[100]
[Casual Ward], Admission to, [109], [120], [139]-[142], [295], [304], [312]-[315]; Bath, [37], [39], [40], [80], [111], [121], [144], [260]; Bed, [114], [122], [146], [167], [279]; Cleanliness, [34], [37], [39], [80], [111], [114], [144], [145]; Cost of, [79]; Defects of, [53], [54], [111], [113], [124], [125], [147]-[149], [168], [172], [274], [294]; Detention, [29], [81], [273]; Drink, [113], [124], [129], [164], [260]; Food, [26], [27], [33], [40], [44], [75], [112], [115], [123], [125], [129], [143], [168], [260], [305]; Institution of, [14]; Investigation of, [33]; Overcrowding, [37], [39], [41], [42], [44], [80]; Task, [22], [28], [33], [34], [40], [45], [96], [117], [126]-[128], [154], [162]-[165], [261], [264], [273]
Casuals, Statistics of, [17], [18], [19], [20], [65], [67], [68], [294]
Central Hall, Manchester, [71], [85], [280]
Common Lodging-House, [35], [36], [47], [94]-[106], [175]-[177], [232]-[254], [269]-[271], [307]; Beds in, [48], [49], [101], [102]; Cost in, [48]; Cleanliness of, [47]-[49], [103]-[105], [237], [241], [242], [245], [246], [252], [270]; Overcrowding in, [47], [104], [252], [254], [271], [298]; versus Shelter, [324]-[327]
Danish Poor Law, [58]
Department of Labour, [74]
Dietary, Tramp Ward, [26]
Doctor refused, [37], [43], [157]
Drink, [20], [139], [161], [186], [189]
Ensor, Research by, [25]
Forced Labour, [59], [61], [63]
Fuller on Vagrancy, [3]
German Relief Station, [14]
Glasgow Municipal Lodging-Houses, [299]-[300]
Herdern, [310]
Hibbert, Sir John, [44]
Home, Disintegration of the, [12], [288]-[297], [321], [322]
Identification, [81]
Impotent, [6], [32], [36], [42]
Incapable, [5], [7], [32], [42], [150], [151], [156], [157], [298]
Independent Review, [25]
Inefficient, [8], [10], [20], [26], [53], [290]
Investigation, Value of, [23]
Investigation into Belgian Labour Colonies, [54]
Investigation into Manchester poverty, [12]
Labour Colonies, [82], [173], [271], [281], [301], [306]-[311]; Cost in, [58], [62], [76], [173], [309]-[310], [311]; English: Hadleigh, [310]; Hollesley Bay, [71], [311]; Laindon, [71], [311]; Lingfield, [71], [310]; Foreign: Belgian, [56], [57], [309]; Dutch, [62], [309]; German, [62], [310]; Swiss, [63], [310]; Visit to, [34]; Wage in, [79]
Legislation against Vagrancy, [3], [4], [11]-[15], [53], [64], [81]
Legislation, Faults of, [15], [16]
Lodging-houses, [35], [36], [47]-[49], [76], [94]-[106], [173], [191], [197]-[231], [233], [293], [299] (see [Shelters]); German, [60]; Municipal, [49], [74], [89]-[93], [178], [299], [324]-[326]; (Glasgow), [299]; Rowton Houses, [50], [324]; Women's, [197]-[231]. [255]-[259], [280]
London Lodging-houses, [48], [254]-[259], [298], [300]; Tramp Ward, [259]-[268]
Low-skilled Labour, [8]
Lucerne, [310]
Luhterheim, [62]
Magistrates, [11], [69], [306], [316]
Migration, [9], [19], [29], [35], [38], [51], [66], [72], [287]-[290], [297]
Moritzburg, [310]
Nomad, [1]
Pastoral Vagrancy, [2]
Personality, Theory of, [xi].
Prison, [25], [28], [29], [31], [38], [55], [56], [172], [214], [276]-[279], [299]; Cost, [58]; Food, [27], [276]
Prostitution, [200]-[203], [206]-[208], [212]-[216], [220], [222], [226], [231], [292], [294], [296], [319]-[327]
Relief Station, [14], [60], [61], [63], [65], [173], [275], [279], [306]
Rose, "Rise of Democracy", [12]
Rosebery, Lord, [12]
Rowton Houses, [50]
Settlement, Law of, [4], [303]
[Shelters], [29], [30], [48], [130]-[135], [173], [190], [195]-[196], [295], [299], [307], [324]-[327]; Beds in, [133]; German, [61]; Salvation Army, [175]-[196], [233]; Beds in, [180], [183]; Food in, [184], [192]
Sleeping Out, [13], [18], [30], [31], [38], [51], [65], [137], [166], [171], [275], [308]
Small-pox, [37], [42], [105], [245], [307]
Soldiers discharged, [21]
Task of Work, [15], [33], [34]
Theory of Personality, [xi].
Tramp Ward defects, [53], [54] See [Casual Ward.]
Unemployed, [20], [21], [24], [25], [29]-[32], [35], [36], [50], [51], [56], [69], [72], [84], [137], [150], [162], [167], [188], [189], [215], [220]
Unemployment in England, [73], [76], [77], [301]; in Denmark, [59]; in Germany, [60]-[62]
Unions, Combination of, [81]
Unskilled Labour, [5], [9], [18], [20], [70]
Vagrancy Definition of, [1]; in early England, [3], [284]-[285]; Agricultural, [5], [11], [83], [85], [285]; Industrial, [6], [83], [85], [286]; Modern, [7], [16]-[23]; in other countries, [54]-[64]
Vagrancy Committee, Recommendations of, [305]-[308]
Vagrants, Number of, [4], [5], [10], [17], [20], [21]-[23], [25], [43], [67], [261]
Veenhuizen, [209]
Way Tickets, [60], [63], [65]-[69], [80], [81], [306]
Westphalia, [310]
Wilhelmsdorf, [310]
Women, [312]-[315], [319]-[327]; Dirty Clothing of, [129], [191], [244], [250]; Lodging-Houses for, [93], [95], [176], [190], [191], [195], [196]-[231], [233], [247], [248], [252]-[259], [280], [300]; Sanitation for, [92], [93], [104]-[105], [235], [242], [243], [257]; Vagrants, [80], [114], [116], [135], [160]-[161], [188], [193], [211], [225], [228], [237], [249], [267], [304], [308], [312]-[315]
Workhouse, Cost in, [58]; Austrian, [64]; Danish, [58], [59]; German, [61]