Report.

  • Great Britain. Departmental Committee on Vagrancy.
Date:
1906
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    Edinburgh—co)i,!;. Poor Houses—Amount of Accommodation, 6967- 6970. Prosecutions Jan. to May, 1905, App., page 103. Salvation Army Lodging-house, 6978. Sleeping out. Increase in, due to advertisement of Charity—Number of Convictions, 6952-6955. Soup Kitchens, etc., creating Tramps, 6481. Education Act, 1876 Section 14 of Industrial Schools Act, 1866, re-enacted by, 4582. Hdueation Act, 1902 Child Vagrants, dealing with, under the Act— Sug- gestion, 4205-4218. County Councils, Powers and Duties of, in regard to Industrial Schoo's—Home Office Circular of 1903, App. page 186. Industrial Schools Act, lull in working of, due to passing of Education Act, 4482, 4483. Jlleinentary Education Act, 1876 Permissive Character—Amendment appointing one clearly defined body to enforce the Act—Sug- gestion, 10982, 10987, 10988, 11055-11058. Hlmira Prison, United States Class of men taken, 5300-5303. Promotion System, 5289, 5296. Emigration to Canada Child Vagrants, Empowering Magistrates to Emigrate Children, proposed, 5919, 5975, 5980-5982. Laindon Farm Colony, Success of men sent to Canada, 5384-5386, 5485-5489. Lingfield Colonists, Number sent to Canada, 5072, 5093, 5240-5244. Self-help Emigration Society—Value attached to Society's Emigrants in Canada, 5244. Training for—Amount of Training needed, 5093. Employers' Liability Act Efiect in increasing Vagrancy among people past middle age, 4918. Employment Information as to, Report, par. 184, 185. see also titles Labour Colonies, Labour in Relation to Vagrancy, Prison, Task, also names of Labour Colonies and Prisons. Enforcement of Regulations in Casual Wards Accommodation and Staff of Casual Wards insufficient to carry out Regulations, 192, 4170-4174, 4177, 4345 Circular of 1896, urging enforcement of Order of 1882, 192—-Text of Circular, App., page 17. Cost Difficulty, 2727-2729-Case of small Unions, 7627-7636. County charge suggestion, 4346-4353. Grant from the County on Certificate of Stand- ing Joint Committee or Local Government Board for Casual Wards carrying out Regu- lations, 4457-4462, 4842. Objections to inoi-easing Accommodation at, 4175-4176. Detention, Bathing, Task, etc., see those titles. Inspectors of Local Government Board, Opinions of, 193, 194. Means of compelling Compliance with Regulations, Need for, 5572. IMeans of reducing Vagrancy— Suggestion, 4170, 5570, 11047, 11048. Enforcement of Regulations in Casual Wards—co«(;. Means of reducing Vagrancy, etc.—cont. Not always resulting in Reduction of Number of Casuals- Instance, 2649, 2730, 2789-2796. Number of Paupers dependent, not on poverty of a district, but on its administration, 257- 260. Reduction ot Vagrancy an almost invariable result, 490-495, 497, 675. Refusals for want of room, Reduction of, 10486, 10487. Shaw-Lefevre's, Mr., Refusal to order Inquiry in 1895 on ground that Remedy was to carry out the Law, 4253-4257. Preference of Vagrants for Wards which are less repressive in Administration even if Accom- modation bad, 1865-1866, 7571, 7572, 9688. Instance, 10938, 10939, 11024, 11025. Uniformity in carrying out Regulations : Lack of, 7568-7571: Diversity permitted by existing Regulations —Uniformity might be secured by fresh Regulations, 8523. Leniency of Officials, 440-444. Local Government Board Order sufficient to secure Uniformity, 705. Enforcement of the Law Home Secretary's Power of remitting Sentences, 1280. Number of Vagrants would go down if the Law were rigidly enforced, 8706. Petitions from Prisoners—Very few Petitions, 1278, 1279. Public Opinion Difficulty—Possibility that Public Opinion might think the Poor Law too hard, 8792. Sleeping out—Opinion in favour of enforcing Law against, 8750. Summarily determined Offences under Vagrancy Act, Decrease in, while Vagrancy had increased— Inference that the Law was not enforced, 8553- 8555. Essex Almsgiving—Circulars discouraging, 2006. Proportion of Vagrancy low according to Population, 300, 516. Exeter Act of 1697—Committal of Vagrants to the Poorhouse for a Maximum Period of Three Years, 29. Ages of Vagrants, Ajialysis of Statistics for a year, 272. Casual Ward: Cells, etc., Cost per head, 612. Cost of maintaining, 632-634. Detention of Militiamen resorting to Casual Ward on their way to training, 8541-8544. Stone breaking by Casuals, Profit on, 429. Extent of Vagrancy Evil—Number of ^'agrants, etc. • Administration, Effect of—Number of Paupers in any- particular District dependent not on its poverty, but on its administration and that of its next- door neighbour, 257-260, 8706. Agricultural Districts, Greater Number of Tramps found in, 7549-7551. Casual Wards, Proportion of Vagrants resorting to, 641,1630-3, 1663,1722-4, 1746-1753, 3136, 4450. Number relieved at Casual Wards on one night, 1900-1904, 10418. Census, Possibility of getting a fairly complete Census for the whole of England on the Northum- berland];Plan, 7537-7539.
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