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Hanbury-street—Salvation Army shelter for women and children.
Time of visit, 1.15—1.45 a.m., about.
The conditions found at the time of the two inspections were as follows—
Night inspection.
Previous day inspection.
Dormitory at rear of day room .. Five Jubilee stands with 4 bunks, 44 bunks.
each 20
Floor bunks 3
Total 23
A few bunks were unoccupied.
Dormitory for women and children 33 bunks, 24 occupied. 33 bunks.
Gallery dormitory—
Gallery 76 bunks 218, ALL OCCUPIED 78 BUNKS
FLOOR 142 BUNKS 122 BUNKS
The mission or day-room here is also used during night time for sleeping in, and at time of visit
there were some 20—30 women lying on the benches and floor.
The charge made for admission into this shelter is twopence.
Medland Hall.
Time of visit, 2.0—2.30 a.m., about.
This place is somewhat altered since previous visit. The actual service area has been increased
by erecting in each gallery a platform, about 6 feet above the level of the gallery floor, on which bunks
can be placed.
Chamber utensils have also been provided in the room in the roof, in place of an old tank which
was formerly used as a urinal.
The conditions found on the occasions of the night inspection and previous day visit are as
follows—
Night inspection.
Previous day inspection.
Total number admitted limited
Ground floor 107 bunks, all occupied. to 300, but no definite
Galleries 118 mation available as to how
Top floor 50 this number was disposed in
Small rooms (a) 18 the different parts of building,
Small rooms (b) 7 there being at this date no
bunk accommodation.
300
It will be seen that the account given in Dr. Young's report of the number of bunks, &c., in the
several rooms as the result of inspection by day is not found to require material modification as the
result of inspection of these premises by night. The only notable difference was found on the floor of
the gallery dormitory in the women's shelter in Hanbury-street, where the number had been increased
from 122 to 142. Decrease had also taken place in the dormitory at the rear of the day room,
apparently as the result of the reduction of the size of this dormitory. A number of women were found
lying on the benches and floors of the day room. Of the use of this room in this manner at night,
there was no evidence at the time of the day inspection, although it was stated at that time by the
officer in charge that occasionally when bunks were full women were admitted and allowed to sleep in
their clothes in the day room.
Shirley F. Murphy,
Medical Officer of Health.