Philanthropy in 1900 London: Feeding the Poor

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of philanthropy in Imperial London, published in 1901, with this look at what was done to help starving people:

The feeding of London's starving, and half-starving, poor, or providing food for them at a price within the compass of their slender means, is a work of the highest form of charity, for it literally carries out the Divine command given nineteen centuries ago.

Only one or two such organizations can be here quoted.

There is one that has for centre the Field-lane Institution, Vine Street, Clerkenwell Road.

The work itself unites night refuges for men and women, ragged schools, and homes for children, and dates from 1841, when it was founded through the attention which the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury so irresistibly called to the existing needs of the neglected London poor.

In all that long period, so nearly coincident with Queen Victoria's reign, it has pursued a quiet course of usefulness, showing last year, under its present president, the Earl of Aberdeen, a record of 273 children fed, clothed, and industrially trained, 431 weakly and ailing little ones sent to the country or seaside, 855 persons sheltered at night, and 339 adults assisted to employment.

Besides this, there are some thousands of meals given during the cold weather, and on Sundays preparatory to Sunday-school or religious services.

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