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25. Stricter supervision and control to be exercised by local authority (326-7). P. 61.

26. Police to have right of entry (327). P. 61.

REGULATION OF SHELTERS AND FREE FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS.

27. Shelters to be licensed and regulated by local authority (366-7). P.

76.

28. Free food distribution to be subject to veto of local authority (360). P. 76.

SPREAD OF DISEASE BY VAGRANTS.

29. Necessity of stricter enforcement of existing law (375, 377). Pp.

37, 42, 49.

30. Notice to be given to neighbouring districts of small-pox occurring in common lodging-houses or casual wards (377).

SLEEPING OUT.

31. Sleeping out to be an offence whenever it takes place in buildings or on enclosed premises, or is a danger or nuisance to the public (384).

P. 30.

PEDLARS.

32. Practice as to issue, renewal and endors.e.m.e.nt of certificate to be uniform (400).

WOMEN.

33. Female vagrants to be received into the workhouse instead of the casual wards (405-8). Appendix IV.

CHILDREN.

34. Children of persons dealt with as habitual vagrants to be sent to industrial schools or other place of safety (428). P. 84.

35. Child vagrants to be received into the workhouse instead of the casual wards (406, 428). Appendix IV.

36. Section 14 of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, to apply to vagrant children (418).

FOOTNOTES:

[158] References in parentheses are to sections in the Vagrancy Report.

[159] I do not agree as to time task. See p. 45. See pp. 181-184, "How to Deal with the Unemployed."

APPENDIX III.

LABOUR COLONIES.[160]

The Report as to Labour Colonies may be summarised as follows:--

HOLLAND. BELGIUM.

1818. Societe de Beneficence established _Free Colonies_ (_i.e._, _Fredericksoord_, _Willemsoord_, and _Willewminsoord_). Population decreasing (1902, 1,460). Also _Beggar Colonies_, _Wortel_ and _Merxplas_, handed over to Government in 1859.

In 1831 Holland and Belgium separated.

HOLLAND now possesses: BELGIUM now possesses:

_Veenhuizen_ for men: 3,000 _Hoogstraeten_, _Wortel_, to 4,000 inmates. Committed _"Maisons de Refuge,"_ by magistrates, six months voluntary colonies.

to three years.

_Hoorn_ for women: Vagrant _Merxplas "Depot de Mendicite":_ cla.s.s. 5,110 inmates, 1905.

Agricultural and industrial.

Net annual cost per head, 9.

Average detention, 16 months.

Earnings per day, 1_d_. to 3_d_.

Vagrant cla.s.s.

GERMANY. SWITZERLAND.

_Labour Colonies_, 34: _Labour Inst.i.tutions_ in nearly every canton.

About 4,000 inmates. Vagrants committed for two to six months.

Admission voluntary. Examples:

Example: _Wilhelmsdorf_, _Witzwyl:_ About 200 inmates.

founded 1882. Agricultural. Agricultural and industrial.

Small wage allowed. _Appenzell:_ Pays its way.