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Of the 105, 23 have died since notification in 1912: the deaths
have been recorded of 17 notified in previous years, but probably a
number have died elsewhere.
The number of homeless persons in the streets has been materially
reduced by the Local Government Board Scheme for issuing lodginghouse
tickets to homeless persons found on the Embankment and its
neighbourhood.
At the end of October a central office was opened by the
Metropolitan Asylums Board at Waterloo Bridge, where tickets
distributed by the police are presented. Every man and woman who
receives a ticket is assured of food and shelter, while opportunity is
afforded through the charitable agencies co-operating in the work, of
helping any case that seems at all likely to respond to remedial
treatment.
The total number of deaths recorded in 1912 of persons with
common lodging-house addresses, or as homeless, was 160.
There were 27 deaths in hotels of persons who came from abroad
whose deaths have to be included in Westminster Before 1911 these
were excluded.