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
i) Those in need of emergency relief, temporary
lodging, meals and bath, by the agencies in the field
and by the Municipal Lodging House (when reopened).
ii) Those in need of clean clothes, free laundry work
at the Municipal Laundry (to be established).
iii) Those who are proper charges of other
communities and who may be better cared for there,
transportation from relatives or from Cook County
agent.
iv) Those in need of medical service, treatment at
the Cook County Hospital, Municipal Tuberculosis
Sanitarium, or dispensaries, and observation at the
Psychopathic Hospital.
v) For the unemployable physically disabled,
education as provided in the Chicago plan for the
physically handicapped (under consideration by the
state in co-operation with private agencies).
vi) For the unemployable but physically able-bodied,
individual arrangements for industrial education.
vii) For the aged and permanently physically
disabled, placement in the Oak Forest Home.
viii) For the employable, references with vocational
diagnosis and recommendation to the Illinois Free
Employment offices and other employment agencies.
ix) For persons under the supervision of the Municipal
Clearing House, when desirable, individual case work
and after-care.
x) For incorrigible vagrants and beggars for whom no
constructive treatment is provided in the program
for immediate action (see constructive treatment in
“Program for Future Action”) commitment to the House
of Correction.
_g_) _Administration_: The Clearing House to be
administered by the city of Chicago under the City
Department of Public Welfare; the director of the
Clearing House to be also superintendent of the Lodging
House and of the Municipal Laundry and the Municipal
Bath House, a physician on full time to be assigned by
the City Department of Public Health, a psychiatrist
and psychologist by the state criminologist of the
State Department of Public Welfare.
_h_) _Advisory Committee_: Under the auspices of
the Chicago Council of Social Agencies, an advisory
committee to the director of the Clearing House be
organized to be composed of public and private agencies
and civic, philanthropic, commercial, industrial, and
labor organizations, co-operating with the Clearing
House.
_i_) _Financing_: An appeal to be made at once to
the city council for funds to equip and maintain the
Municipal Clearing House, Municipal Lodging House,
Laundry and Bath House, to provide for the following
budget:
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