Chapter XII: Appendix: D

A FEW FIGURES SHOWING SOME OF THE WORK OF THE DARKEST ENGLAND SCHEME IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1909 DURING TOTAL TO
1910 SEPT. 30, 1910
Number of Meals supplied at
Cheap Food Dépôts 69,784,480 6,869,897 76,654,377
Number of Cheap Lodgings for
the Homeless 27,850,674 2,445,300 30,295,974
Number of Meetings held in
Shelters 140,747 8,660 149,407
Number of Applications from
Unemployed registered at
Labour Bureaux 302,538 13,009 315,547
Number received into Factories 63,694 6,754 70,448
Number for whom Employment
(temporary or permanent) has
been found 249,453 20,210 269,663
Number of Ex-Criminals received
into Homes 8,840 416 9,256
Number of Ex-Criminals assisted,
restored to Friends,
sent to situations, etc. 7,886 1,166 9,052
Number of Applications for Lost
Persons 44,001 2,120 46,121
Number of Lost Persons found 13,710 398 14,108
Number of Women and Girls
received into Rescue Homes 44,417 3,679 48,096
Number of Women and Girls
received into Rescue Homes
who were sent to Situations,
restored to Friends, etc. 37,168 3,346 40,514
Number of Families visited in
Slums 998,079 109,750 1,107,829
Number of Families prayed with 577,550 64,141 641,691
Number of Public-houses visited 630,021 33,188 663,209
Number of Lodging-houses
visited 17,330 3,457 20,787
Number of Lodging-house Meetings
held 7,319 1,792 9,111
Number of Sick People visited
and nursed 93,233 21,912 115,145

NOTES:

[1: See Appendix C]

[2: The following extract from the recently issued 'Report of the Commissioners of Prisons and the Directors of Convict Prisons,' for the year ended March 31, 1910, Part I [Cd. 5360], published since the above was written, sets out the present views of the Authorities on this important matter:--

'Out of the present inmates of convict prisons over 40 per
cent have been previously in penal servitude, viz. out of
3,046 male convicts in convict prisons, 1,253 had been
previously sentenced to penal servitude, 672 once, 271
twice, 196 three times, and 114 four times or more. Mr.
Secretary Churchill has referred to us the question whether,
and in what way, it would be possible to make any impression
on this roll of recidivism--this unyielding _corpus_ of
habitual crime. The problem is never absent from the minds
of those responsible for the administration of prisons and
the treatment of crime, and during recent years great
efforts have been made to improve the machinery of
assistance on discharge, fully impressed as we are with the
truth of the old French saying, "_Le difficile ce n'est pas
emprisoner un homme, c'est de le relâcher_." We have tried
to avail ourselves fully of the resources offered by such
powerful agencies as the Church Army, Salvation Army, as
well as other societies who have for years operated in this
particular field of charitable effort. We recognize the
ready help given by all these agencies. No doubt by their
efforts many difficult and unpromising cases have been
rehabilitated; but after full consideration we have come to
the opinion that the task of rehabilitation in the case of
men returning to freedom after a sentence of penal servitude
is too difficult and too costly to be left entirely to
voluntary societies, unaided by any grant of public funds,
and working independently of each other at a problem where
unity of method and direction is above all things required.
Mr. Secretary Churchill, to whom these views have been
represented, at once agreed that the difficulty lay in this
question of discharge, and that the official authority,
acting in close and friendly co-operation with the voluntary
societies must take a more active part than hitherto in
controlling the passage into free life of a man emerging
from penal servitude. ... A plan is now under consideration
for establishing a Central Agency of Control for Discharged
Convicts, on which both the official and unofficial element
will be represented, with a subsidy from public funds, the
purpose of which will be to take in hand the guidance and
direction of every convict on the day of discharge' (pp. 15,
16).]

[3: See Parliamentary Blue Book [Cd. 2562].]

[4: The scale of pay in the Salvation Array for Officers in charge of Corps (or Stations) is as follows:--For Single Men: Lieutenants, 16s. weekly; Captains, 18s. weekly. For Single Women: Lieutenants, 12s. weekly; Captains, 15s. weekly. For Married Men, 27s. per week and 1s. per week for each child under 7 years of age, and 2s. per week for each child between the ages of 7 and 14. Furnished lodgings are provided in addition.]

[5: But the day before this proof came into my hands it was my duty to help to try a case illustrative of these remarks. In that case a girl when only just over the age of sixteen had been seduced by a young man and borne a son. First the father admitted parentage and promised marriage. Then he denied parentage, and, apparently without a shadow of evidence, alleged that the child was the result of an incestuous intercourse between its mother and a relative. At the trial, having, it seemed, come to the conclusion that this wicked slander would not enable him to escape an affiliation order, he again frankly admitted his parentage. In the country districts, at any rate, such examples are common.--H. R. H.]

[6: The loss is being reduced annually, that for the financial year which has just closed being the lowest on record.]

[7: See Appendix A]

[8: On this and other points see the Salvation Army's 'Articles of War,' Appendix B.]

INDEX

Affiliation Orders, 91, 109-110.

'Ann Fowler' Home, 166, 168.

Anti-Suicide Bureau, 151-164.

Ardenshaw Women's Home, Glasgow, 188.

Argyll, Duchess of, 103.

'Articles of War,' 257.

Australia, 14, 83.

Balance-sheet for 1909, 260-261.

Barlow, Sir Thomas, 123.

Barnardo, The late Dr., 71, 73, 233.

Blackfriars Shelter, 41.

Booth, General, 7, 10-12, 14-18, 57, 61, 63, 85, 97, 200-201, 206,
208-217, 223.

Booth, Mr. Bramwell, 218-225.

Booth, Mrs. Bramwell, 87, 89, 91-93, 95, 144.

Boxted Small Holdings, 69, 200-207.

British Government, The, and Colonial Land Scheme, 82.

Canada, 14, 82-86.

Carrington, Earl, 206.

Central Labour Bureau, 75.

Chief of the Staff, The: see Mr. Bramwell Booth.

Cox, Commissioner, 96, 98, 119, 120.

Criminals in England, 61.

Crossley, Mrs., 176.

Drink, 37.

Duke Street, Glasgow, 188.

Edinburgh, 179.

Embankment Soup Distribution, 22, 39, 40.

Emigration Department, 80;
Emigration Board, 85.

Employers' Liability Act, 38.

Ex-Criminals, 54.

First Offenders Act, 168.

Free Breakfast Service, 41.

Future of the Salvation Army, Notes on, 237.

Glasgow, 165, 178-182, 192.

Government Labour Bureaux, 75-76.

Government Subsidy, 57.

Great Peter St. Shelter, 33, 157.

Great Titchfield St., 94, 140, 150.

Hadleigh Land Colony, 76, 182, 184, 194, 198, 199.

Hanbury St. Workshop, 65-70.

Herring, The late Mr. George, 19, 200, 201, 207, 212.

Hillsborough House Inebriates' Home, 98, 102, 122.

Hollies,' 'The, 168, 169.

Home Office, The, 55.

Iliffe, Lieut.-Colonel, 204.

Impressions of General Booth, 208.

India, 23.

Inebriates' Home, The, Springfield Lodge, 122.

International Investigation Department, 77.

Ivy House Maternity Hospital, 107.

Java, 233.

Jolliffe, Lieut.-Colonel, 41, 148, 185-186, 190-191.

King Edward Hospital Fund, 201.

Labour Bureau, Central, Whitechapel, 75;
Statistics, 76.

Labour Party and Trade.
Unions, 65, 85-86.

Lamb, Colonel, 81, 83-85.

Lambert, Colonel, 115.

Land Colony, Hadleigh, 194.

Laudanum-drinking, 124, 183.

Laurie, Lieut.-Colonel, 194-196.

Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, 82.

Liverpool, 165.

London County Council, 129.

London Maternity Home, 169.

Lorne House, 103, 105.

Manchester, 165;
Social Institutions, 172.

Maternity Home, Lorne House, Stoke Newington, 103.

Maternity Home, Brent House, Hackney, 105-106.

Maternity Hospital,
Hackney, 105, 107;
Liverpool, 171.

Maternity Hospital, New, required, 170.

Men's Social Work,
Glasgow, 178;
London, 19, 65;
Manchester, 171.

Middlesex Street Shelter, 19.

Midnight Work, Social, 94.

Needs, Our, 235.

Nest,' 'The, Clapton, 112.

Oakhill House, Manchester, 176.

Old-Age Pensions Act, 130.

Paris, 93.

Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Unions, 65.

Penitent Form, The, 46-48, 51, 230.

Pentonville Prison, 56.

Piccadilly Midnight Work, 140.

Prevention of Cruelty to Children, Society for the, 233.

Princess Louise, H.R.H., 103.

Prison Act, The New, 63.

Prison Reform, 62, 63 (note).

Prison Visitation, 55, 188.

Prisoners' Aid Society, 180.

Quaker Street, 54.

Religion of the Salvation Army, Note on the, 229.

Rescue Home, The, 117.

'Revivalism!' 49.

Roosevelt, Mr. 214-215.

'Rural England,' 10.

Sacraments, The, 230.

Salvation Army, Some Statistics of the, 9-10.

Scale of pay, Officers', 90 (note).

Scotland, 131, 179.

Slum Settlement, The Hackney Road, 131.

Slum Sisters, 88;
Some Statistics of their work, 131.

Small Holdings, 200-207.

Southwood, Sydenham, 126.

Spa Road Elevator, 27, 46, 79.

Sturge House, 71-74.

Sturgess, Commissioner, 19, 36, 47, 54, 55, 57, 186.

Sweating, Charges of, refuted, 28, 66, 120-121.

Titchfield Street Home, The, 140, 145, 150.

Trade Unions and rate of Wages, 15-16.

Training Institute for Women Social Workers, The, 115.

Unsworth, Colonel, 155, 157, 160, 164.

Vegetarianism, 99, 113-114.

Visitation of prisoners by Salvation Army Officers, 55-56.

Wandsworth Prison, 56.

Waste Paper Department,
Spa Road, 27, 31, 52;
Manchester, 172;
Glasgow, 180.

White Slave Traffic, 87, 93.

Whitechapel, 72, 75, 95, 132, 142.

Women's Industrial Home, Hackney, 119;
Sydenham, 126.

Women's Shelter, 129.

Women's Social Work, London, 87;
Headquarters, 96.