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
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| Yearly Cost per | How the Cost was Covered.
Labour House. | Head of Average +------------------+-----------------
| Number of | (_a_) By Produce | (_b_) Public
| Detainees. | of the | Contributions.
| | Labour House. |
----------------+-----------------+------------------+-----------------
| Mark. Pfennige. | Mark. Pfennige. | Mark. Pfennige.
Tapiau | 642 51 | 302 64 | 339 87
Konitz | 383 27 | 204 46 | 178 81
Rummelsburg | 507 21 | 124 21 | 383 0
Strausberg | 434 0 | 215 0 | 219 0
Prenzlau | 547 15 | 280 46 | 266 69
Landsberg a. W. | 401 41 | 234 83 | 166 58
Neustettin | 442 68 | 268 24 | 174 44
Uckermüode | 406 31 | 221 54 | 184 77
Stralsund | 480 77 | 361 05 | 119 72
Greifswald | 340 0 | 220 29 | 119 71
Bojanowo | 355 45 | 172 14 | 183 31
Fraustadt | 694 49 | 145 23 | 549 26
Schweidnitz | 313 40 | 255 17 | 58 23
Breslau | 674 32 | 625 17 | 49 15
Gross Salze | 339 29 | 271 54 | 67 75
Moritzburg | 344 76 | 271 01 | 73 75
Glückstadt | 425 26 | 410 42 | 14 84
Bockelholm | 355 30 | 222 02 | 133 28
Benninghausen | 498 76 | 153 85 | 344 91
Breitenau | 453 84 | 397 70 | 56 14
Hadamar | 278 80 | 140 99 | 137 81
Brauweiler | 396 68 | 271 97 | 124 71
Moringen | 791 09 | 142 0 | 649 09
Wunstorf | 377 61 | 131 64 | 245 97
Himmelsthür | 363 42 | 159 13 | 204 29
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It appears from this statement that the gross annual cost per head
ranged from £13 18s 10d. in the case of the Labour House at Hadamar (a
small institution) to £39 11s. at the Labour House at Moringen, and
that the net cost to the State ranged from 14s. 10d. per head in the
case of the Labour House at Glückstadt to £32 9s. at Moringen.
CHAPTER VI.
A GERMAN TRAMP PRISON.[63]
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