The number of men, women and children provided with meals is three or four times greater than last year.' Easton stopped: reading was hard work to him.
'There's a lot more,' he said, 'about starting relief works: two shillings a day for married men and one shilling for single and something about there's been 1,572 quarts of soup given to poor families wot was not even able to pay a penny, and a lot more.

And 'ere's another thing, an advertisement: 'THE SUFFERING POOR Sir: Distress among the poor is so acute that I earnestly ask you for aid for The Salvation Army's great Social work on their behalf.
Some 600 are being sheltered nightly.

Hundreds are found work daily.

Soup and bread are distributed in the midnight hours to homeless wanderers in London.

Additional workshops for the unemployed have been established.