A BIG YEAR'S WORK.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 265, 1 August 1908, Page 12

A BIG YEAR'S WORK.

WHAT THE ARMY IS IXHNU. The_ Salvation Army has just issued an interesting' booklet containing a sketch of its Rescue and Prison Gate work ,in 1 Australasia, by "An Outsider," together with, the annual report for 1907-8. The following statistics of the Army's work during the year are more eloquent than many words:— Prison-gate Homes.—During the year the Prison-gate Homes in Australasia received over 1200 men; 800 betrayed women found friends in the Maternity Home officers, and nearly the same number of fallen women entered the rescue homes. r

Maternity Homes.—Number of Homes, 11 ; accommodation, 236; total inmates .for 1907, 819. Tho total includes:—Number sent to friends, 307; sent to situations, 274; sent to other homes 1 and hospitals, 34; deaths, 4 ; unsatisfactory cases, 11. Girls' Industrial Homes.—Number 'of Homes, 7 ; total inmates"'for 1907, 414. Number sent to situations, and friends, 110. Over 400 lads wore'dealt with in,oight industrial homes for boys. Rescue Work. —Number of homes, ' 1C; accommodation, 373:' number of inmates, December 31, 1906, 293; number received from streets, Courts, and gaols, 585;, total inmates, December 31,' 1907, S7B; including: number sent to friends, 219; number sent to situations, 198; number sont to other homes and hospitals, 51} number of deaths', 9; unsatisfactory cases, 70. Polico Court and League of Mercy.—Number of visits to Police Courts, 359; prisoners given refreshments, 2072; prisoners sent to Army Homes, 97; prisoners sent to other homes and hospitals, 12; visits to' gaols, 23; dostituto cases relieved, 46. Men's and Women's Shelters. —Number of shelters, 14; number of lodgings in 1907, 375,600; meals supplied, 751,200; baths furnished, 250,000. ■. . ■' Every day of the year tho Army provides for 3000 men, women, and children in the various homes and cheap; shelters in Australia and New Zealand..