The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless ManAnderson, Nels
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The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man
Anderson, Nels
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions; Tramps
_b_) _Organization_: The Clearing House will maintain
the following departments:
i) _Information Bureau_: to provide information in
regard to employment, public institutions, social
agencies, indorsed hotels, and lodging-houses, etc.
ii) _Registration_: by card, giving name, age,
occupation, physical condition, reference, residence,
nearest relative or friend, number of lodgings,
disposition, and all other information.
iii) _Vocational Clinic_: to provide medical,
psychiatric, psychological, and social examination as
a basis of treatment.
iv) _Records Office_: to record findings of
examination, to clear with other agencies, local and
national, and to enter recommendations and results of
treatment.
v) _Social Service Bureau_: to provide for both
immediate and after-care service for the men under
the supervision of the Clearing House.
_c_) _Personnel_: to consist of director, clerical
force, interviewers, social workers, and experts, as
physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, and sociologist.
_d_) _Intake of Clearing House_: registrants to be
referred to the Clearing House by:
i) _Citizens_, to whom homeless men have applied for
relief.
ii) _Missions_, where food or lodging have been
received by homeless men.
iii) _Charities._
iv) _Travelers’ Aid Society._
v) _Local organizations._
vi) _Police Department_: closing of police stations
to lodgers and provision for supply of such
applicants with tickets of admission to the Clearing
House; direction by police to the Clearing House of
persons found for the first time begging.
vii) _Courts, police stations, House of Correction,
and county jail_: provision to every homeless man
or boy upon discharge with ticket of admission to
Clearing House guaranteeing three days’ liberty
with food, lodging, and an opportunity for honest
employment.
_e_) _Classification_: As a result of examination in
the Vocational Clinic the men will be divided for
treatment into three groups: (1) boys and youths,
(2) employable men, and (3) unemployable men. The
unemployable will be further divided into: (i) the
physically handicapped, (ii) the mentally defective,
(iii) alcoholics and drug addicts, (iv) the habitually
idle, (v) the untrained, and (vi) the aged.
_f_) _Treatment_: Upon the basis of the preceding
examination and classification, the men will be given
the following services:
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