f the various Social enterprises we have in
hand. I do not vouch for its completeness; but, anyway, we have
here a goodly number of schemes for the benefit of the poor and
friendless already in active and useful operation:--
(a) For the Starving, we have--
i. Children's Free and Farthing Breakfasts.
ii. Midnight Soup and Bread Brigades for the Homeless.
iii. Cheap Food Depots.
iv. Special Relief Funds for cases of Special Destitution.
v. Old Clothes' Depots for Slum Families.
vi. Poor Men's Hotels,
vii. Cheap Grain Stores.
viii. Famine Loan Fund for Destitute 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, Yoshiwaras, 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.
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