The Vagrancy Problem.: The Case for Measures of Restraint for Tramps, Loafers, and Unemployables: With a Study of Continental Detention Colonies and Labour HousesDawson, William Harbutt
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The Vagrancy Problem.: The Case for Measures of Restraint for Tramps, Loafers, and Unemployables: With a Study of Continental Detention Colonies and Labour Houses
Dawson, William Harbutt
Poor laws; Poor laws -- Great Britain; Tramps; Unemployed
Hadamar | " | 236 | 80 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 5 | --
Brauweiler |Rhine Province|1,090 | 195 | 50 | 105 | 47 | 56 | 16 | 281
Moringen | Hanover | 800 | -- | -- | -- | 21 | 27 | 14 | 16
Wunstorf | " | 300 | -- | 550 | -- | 22 | 26 | 37 | 103
Himmelsthür | " | -- | 125 | -- | 190 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 29
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The numbers of persons, detained for correction, dealt with by the
whole of the Prussian Labour Houses in the course of the administrative
year 1907-8 were as follows:--
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| Males. | Females. | Total.
------------------------+--------+----------+--------
Number at the beginning | | |
of the year | 7,200 | 848 | 8,048
Admitted during the | | |
year | 6,716 | 731 | 7,447
Discharged during the | | |
year | 6,839 | 892 | 7,731
Number at the end of | | |
the year | 7,077 | 687 | 7,764
Total number detained | 13,916 | 1,579 | 15,495
Average number detained | | |
daily | 6,779 | 749 | 7,528
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The persons detained were classified in the following groups of
occupations:--
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| Males. | Females. | Total.
------------------------+--------+----------+--------
Agriculture, forestry, | | |
gardening, fishing, | | |
etc. | 923 | 30 | 953
Industry, mining, and | | |
building trades | 3,057 | 42 | 3,099
Trade and commerce | 717 | 17 | 734
Domestic service and | | |
casual labour | 1,488 | 296 | 1,784
Public service and | | |
professions | 114 | 5 | 119
No occupation, or none | | |
declared | 8 | 302 | 310
+--------+----------+--------
Totals | 6,307 | 692 | 6,999
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Of 6,990 persons classified by age, 174 were under twenty-one years of
age, 262 were from twenty-one to twenty-five years of age, 529 from
twenty-five to thirty, 1,664 from thirty to forty, 2,231 from forty to
fifty, 1,532 from fifty to sixty, 548 from sixty to seventy, and 50
were seventy years of age and upwards.
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