The Night Side of LondonRitchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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The Night Side of London
Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
£35,036; 14 for the relief of general destitution and distress, with
£23,880; 12 for the relief of specified distress, with £29,881; 14 for
aiding the resources of the industrious, with £7246; 11 for the blind,
deaf, and dumb, with £34,762; 103 colleges, hospitals, and other asylums
for the aged (exclusive of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals, £83,047); 16
charitable pension societies, with £18,989; 74 charitable and provident
societies, chiefly for specified classes, with £103,227; 31 asylums for
orphans and other necessitous children, with £81,015; 10 educational
foundations, exclusive of libraries, modern colleges, or proprietary
schools, £93,112; 4 charitable ditto, with £13,300; 40 school societies,
religious book, church-aiding, and Christian instructing, irrespective of
government grants or establishments, with an income, taking the sale of
publications, as much as £318,189. Mr Low gives the total number of
charitable institutions as 500; Mr Mayhew puts down their number as 530.
Then there are 100 temperance meetings held weekly. May we not hope that
all these institutions have some effect, that by means of them some are
reclaimed, and many saved?
The more direct religious agency may be estimated as follows. In the
Handbook to Places of Worship, published by Low, in 1851, there is a list
of 371 churches and chapels in connexion with the Establishment; the
number of church sittings, according to Mr Mann, is 409,184; the
Independents have about 140 places of worship and 100,436 sittings; the
Baptists, 130 chapels, and accommodation for 54,234; the Methodists, 154
chapels, 60,696; the Presbyterians, 23 chapels and 18,211 sittings; the
Unitarians, 9 chapels and about 3300 sittings; the Roman Catholics, 35
chapels and 35,994 sittings; 4 Quaker chapels, with sittings for 3151;
the Moravians have two chapels, with 1100 sittings; the Jews have 11
synagogues and 3692 sittings. There are 94 chapels belonging to the New
Church, the Plymouth Brethren, the Irvingites, the Latter-Day Saints,
Sandemanians, Lutherans, French Protestants, Greeks, Germans, Italians,
which chapels have sittings for 18,833. We thus get 691,723 attendants
on divine exercises.
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