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).
[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."
The Report as to Labour Colonies may be summarised as follows:--
1818. Société de Benéficence 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.
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 "Depôt de Mendicité":_ class. 5,110 inmates, 1905.
_Labour Colonies_, 34: _Labour Institutions_ in nearly every canton.
About 4,000 inmates. Vagrants committed for two to six months.
Example: _Wilhelmsdorf_, _Witzwyl:_ About 200 inmates. founded 1882. Agricultural. Agricultural and industrial.
Small wage allowed. _Appenzell:_ Pays its way.
Also _Workhouses_ (arbeits _St. Johannsen:_ £6 per head. hauser), 24:
Forced labour. Detention, _Lucerne:_ £14 per head. one year. Accommodate 14,836. Cost small, e.g., _Westphalia_, cost £17 8_s_., earnings £8 14_s_.; _Moritzburg_, cost £14 9_s_. 2_d_., earnings £11 10_s_. 8_d_.
Mainly handicrafts. _Voluntary Colonies:_
Example: _Herdern_, more expensive, £50 per head.
_Salvation Army._ _Christian Social Brotherhood._
_Inmates:_ Paupers, men _Inmates:_ Workhouse cases and from "Elevators," inebriates; private cases. private cases.
_Capital cost_, about £300 per _Capital cost_, about £160 per head. head.
_Average annual cost_, nearly _Average annual cost_, £33 per £34 per head. head.
Agriculture and brick-making. Training in farm and dairy work.
_London County Council._ _Poplar Guardians._
Principally "unemployed." Able-bodied paupers.