Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree.

  • Seebohm Rowntree
Date:
1902
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Credit: Poverty : a study of town life / by B. Seebohm Rowntree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Except in July the number of vagrants admitted O does not vary much from month to month. During 1899 (January to December) the numbers were:— January • • 531 February . . 514 March 690 April . 546 May . 552 June. . 650 July. . 316 August 588 September . . 645 October . 548 November . • • • 701 December . . 556 Total . 6837 The comparatively small number admitted during July is probably explained by the fact that many persons of the vagrant class find employment during that month in fruit-picking, and these often “ sleep out.” The vagrants frequenting the Workhouse are almost all professional tramps. They are admitted to the ward after 8 p.m. The vagrant wards are one of the worst features of the Workhouse, and the method of dealing with the vagrants has no deterrent effect. Isolated wards have not been introduced in York. The vagrants sleep several together in one ward, which is the system most favoured by this class. A tramp who had had experience of the York