SALVATION ARMY SOCIAL WORK

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1948, 3 January 1914, Page 9

SALVATION ARMY SOCIAL WORK

•Mrs; Bfamwell Booth madq ; Iter jail: mini SotiSHYorfc of the Salvation Army last month, at , an influential meeting at the Whitehall Rooms, London. Tho Marquis of Winchester presided, and, spoke highly of tiie efficiency and soundness of this tie* part meni. . 'Sirs..' Booth's report • only covered nine months, as tho date of the financial year has been changed, but. she explained, tho progress is so good that those who are accustomed to read the twelve months' report can_ scarcely realise that, wo are only dealing with the shorter period. From liinety-iour stations wo have thrown out the lifeline, ami about 40,000 people lm-o taken hold of it 111 some way or other. For instance, 2877 women liave" passed through the Rescue Homes; 1509 mothers have been nursed and assisted in connection with the Maternity Hospital and the district work; LI6 women have been taken out of prison and placed in tho Homes that we provido for them; 716 others have been assisted in various ways—rotnnlcd to their friends, and so 011—by oiir work at' the prison gat©; 2842 women liavo been placed in situations -or helped in various ways in connection .with our Lodging Homes. Mrs. Booth referred .to the opening of the fine, now Maternity Hospital at Clapton, and 'emphasised tho need of assisting poor unmarried women, Tlio terrible burden of motherhood for the poor generally ought to be lightened. Mrs. Booth pressed homo her appeal with some deeply moving stories of tho work. Commissioner Adelaide Cox, tho head of the women's work, to whom Lord Winchester and others paid warm' tributes bf regard, made tho financial statement. She, wanted £25,000 'to cope with the year's work, in addition | to £4000 for tiin hospital.