The Authoritative Life of General William Booth Part 25

iv. Special Relief Funds for cases of Special Dest.i.tution.

v. Old Clothes' Depots for Slum Families.

vi. Poor Men's Hotels, vii. Cheap Grain Stores.

viii. Famine Loan Fund for Dest.i.tute Indians.

(b) For the Drunkards, we have-- i. Drunkards' Brigades.

ii. Midnight Drunkards' Brigades (of use also in any sudden emergency--Fire, Flood, etc.).

iii. Drunkards' Advice Bureaux.

iv. Homes for Inebriates--Men and Women.

(c) For the Paupers, we have-- i. Workhouse Brigades.

ii. Salvation Guardians of the Poor.

iii. Pauper Colonies.

iv. Pauper Transportation.

v. Labour Bureaux, vi. Homes for the Aged.

(d) For the Unemployed, we have-- i. Labour Bureaux--Men and Women, ii. Industrial Homes.

iii. Labour Wood Yards.

iv. City Salvage Brigades.

v. Workshops.

(e) For the Homeless, we have-- i. Midnight Scouts.

ii. Shelters for Men and Women.

iii. Metropoles.

(f) For the Criminals, we have-- i. Prison Visitation.

ii. Police-court Work.

iii. Prison-Gate Work.

iv. Probationary Police.

v. Correspondence Bureaux.

vi. Ex-Criminals' Homes.

vii. Criminal Settlements

(g) For the Daughters of Shame, we have-- i. Visitation of Streets, Brothels, Yos.h.i.+waras, Clubs, etc.

ii. Midnight Meetings.

iii. Receiving Homes.

iv. Rescue Homes.

v. Factories, Laundries, etc.

vi. "Out of Love" Funds.

vii. Service Girls' Brigades.

viii. Shepherding Brigades.

ix. Maternity Homes.

x. Investigation and Detective Department.

(h) Slum Work. We have-- i. Visitation.

ii. First-Aid Brigades.

iii. District Nursing.

iv. "Poorest of the Poor" Aid.

(i) For the Sick, we have-- i. Visitation.

ii. Hospitals.

iii. Dispensaries.

iv. Village Dispensing, v. Leper Hospitals, vi. Maternity Nursing.

(j) For the Lost, we have-- i. Inquiry and Correspondence Bureaux.

ii. Legal a.s.sistance.

(k) Prevention and Protective Work for Young Girls. We have-- i. Servants' Homes.

ii. City Inst.i.tutes.

iii. Theatrical Girls' Home.

iv. Registries.

v. Students' Homes.

(l) Anti-Suicide Bureaux. We have-- i. Advice Department.

ii. Loan Department.

(m) The Home League.

(n) Land Schemes. We have--

i. Emigration.

ii. Home Colonisation.

iii. Colonisation over the Sea.

iv. Lands and Farm Colonies.

v. Small Holdings.

(o) Deep Sea Brigades. We have--

i. Mission Boats.

ii. Life-boat.

(p) Training Colleges.

(q) Students' Homes.

(r) Working-Men's a.s.sociation.

(s) Village Banks.

The total number of our Social Inst.i.tutions is now 954.

The value of properties, etc., held for the use of our Social Operations is:--

At Home (U.K.) 228,000 In other Countries 747,000

Total 975,000

2. In the history of the Social Work, nevertheless, there have been, as you will know, any number of shortcomings. We have not realised all our expectations, nor fulfilled all our dreams. It was not to be expected that we should. This is an imperfect world; the Movement has been imperfect, and the people who have carried it on have been imperfect also. Consequently, it is only natural that we have had imperfect results.

(a) Many things have been calculated to cause these shortcomings.