The Authoritative Life of General William Booth eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 443 pages of information about The Authoritative Life of General William Booth.

The Authoritative Life of General William Booth eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 443 pages of information about The Authoritative Life of General William Booth.
for the Homeless.
iii.  Cheap Food Depots.
iv.  Special Relief Funds for cases of Special Destitution.
v.  Old Clothes’ Depots for Slum Families.
vi.  Poor Men’s Hotels,
vii.  Cheap Grain Stores.
viii.  Famine Loan Fund for Destitute Indians.

(b) For the Drunkards, we have—­
i.  Drunkards’ Brigades.
ii.  Midnight Drunkards’ Brigades (of use also in any sudden
emergency—­Fire, Flood, etc.).
iii.  Drunkards’ Advice Bureaux.
iv.  Homes for Inebriates—­Men and Women.

(c) For the Paupers, we have—­
i.  Workhouse Brigades.
ii.  Salvation Guardians of the Poor.
iii.  Pauper Colonies.
iv.  Pauper Transportation.
v.  Labour Bureaux,
vi.  Homes for the Aged.

(d) For the Unemployed, we have—­
i.  Labour Bureaux—­Men and Women,
ii.  Industrial Homes.
iii.  Labour Wood Yards.
iv.  City Salvage Brigades.
v.  Workshops.

(e) For the Homeless, we have—­
i.  Midnight Scouts.
ii.  Shelters for Men and Women.
iii.  Metropoles.

(f) For the Criminals, we have—­
i.  Prison Visitation.
ii.  Police-court Work.
iii.  Prison-Gate Work.
iv.  Probationary Police.
v.  Correspondence Bureaux.
vi.  Ex-Criminals’ Homes.
vii.  Criminal Settlements

(g) For the Daughters of Shame, we have—­
i.  Visitation of Streets, Brothels, Yoshiwaras, Clubs, etc.
ii.  Midnight Meetings.
iii.  Receiving Homes.
iv.  Rescue Homes.
v.  Factories, Laundries, etc.
vi.  “Out of Love” Funds.
vii.  Service Girls’ Brigades.
viii.  Shepherding Brigades.
ix.  Maternity Homes.
x.  Investigation and Detective Department.

(h) Slum Work.  We have—­
i.  Visitation.
ii.  First-Aid Brigades.
iii.  District Nursing.
iv.  “Poorest of the Poor” Aid.

(i) For the Sick, we have—­
i.  Visitation.
ii.  Hospitals.
iii.  Dispensaries.
iv.  Village Dispensing,
v.  Leper Hospitals,
vi.  Maternity Nursing.

(j) For the Lost, we have—­
i.  Inquiry and Correspondence Bureaux.
ii.  Legal Assistance.

(k) Prevention and Protective Work for Young Girls.  We
have—­
i.  Servants’ Homes.
ii.  City Institutes.
iii.  Theatrical Girls’ Home.
iv.  Registries.
v.  Students’ Homes.

(l) Anti-Suicide Bureaux.  We have—­
i.  Advice Department.
ii.  Loan Department.

(m) The Home League.

(n) Land Schemes.  We have—­

i.  Emigration.
ii.  Home Colonisation.
iii.  Colonisation over the Sea.
iv.  Lands and Farm Colonies.
v.  Small Holdings.

(o) Deep Sea Brigades.  We have—­

i.  Mission Boats.
ii.  Life-boat.

(p) Training Colleges.

(q) Students’ Homes.

(r) Working-Men’s Association.

(s) Village Banks.

The total number of our Social Institutions is now 954.

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