[3] "Casual pauper" is defined in the Pauper Inmates Discharge and Regulation Act of 1871 as "any destitute wayfarer or wanderer applying for or receiving relief" in the casual wards.
[4] "Annual Report" for 1908, p. 10.
[5] Annual Report of the Local Government Board, 1902-3, p. 57.
[6] Ibid., Report of Mr. P. H. Bagenal, p. 147.
[7] Report of Departmental Committee on Vagrancy, Vol. I., p. 16.
[8] "In point of distribution through the country vagrancy is found to cling to the Metropolis and its neighbourhood, and to the manufacturing and coal and iron mining districts; it follows also the track of the navvy when any new works of importance are in progress." Report of Poor Law Commission, Vol. II., pp. 161, 162.
[9] Report of Vagrancy Committee, Vol. I., p. 22.
[10] Report of Vagrancy Committee, Vol. I., p. 1.
[11] Annual Report of the Local Government Board, 1906-7, pp. 292, 293.
[12] Report, Vol. III., p. 507.