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66 SOCIAL CONDITION OP THE POOR.
and washhouse furnished with all appropriate utensils,
a pantry-hatch, with separate, ventilated, and
secure compartments for the food of each inmate;
in the pay-office is a small well-selected library, for
the service of the lodgers, and the use of a spacious
coffee-room is likewise for their common convenience.
Their pay is 4 d. per night, or 2s. a week—
an amount below the ordinary rent paid for the
most miserable accommodation in a trampers' lodging-house.
At 76, Hatton-garden, a lodging-house for 57
single women has recently been opened, consisting
of three floors of dormitories, divided into separate
compartments, and a basement fitted up with
kitchen, washhouse, bath, pantry, safes, &c.
In Charles street, Drury-lane, three tenements,
originally separate, have been converted into a
single lodging-house for 82 single men, on the same
general plan and at the same rent as that in Georgestreet,
St. Giles's.
All the lodging-houses are furnished, and the
inmates are supplied with utensils for their food
and other purposes, which must be returned, or
made good at their leaving.
In all these lodging-houses rules exist for the
purpose of insuring cleanliness, sobriety, carefulness,
and general propriety of conduct, any infraction
of which subjects the offender to immediate
expulsion. For the sake of those who choose to
avail themselves of the opportunity, Scripture