Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1914 — 25,000 HOMELESS IN LONDON [ARTICLE]

25,000 HOMELESS IN LONDON

112 Women and Five Children Found Sleeping In Btreets In One Night. London. —The annual census of homeless persons has just been taken by the London county council. It shows that 2,881 persons on the night the count was made were without homes. The numbers have declined since the original census was made ten years ago, principally because of the new casual ward scheme, by which wander ers are questioned by the police and given tickets of admission to the casual wards. Those who, on the night of the census, were actually homeless in the streets or sleeping on staircases or beneath arches numbered 317 men. 112 women and fire children. There were also 77 sitting in shelters, 29 in the king's tents, over two thousand in free lodging houses and 33? in the casual wards. In addition there were 20,000 in common lodging houses, where from eight cents to twelve cents a night has to be paid, so that really it may be said that there are about twenty-five thousand persons in London who have no homes of their own. The common lodging house population, however, declines year by year.