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THE CRIMINALS
One very important section of the denizens of Darkest England are the criminals
and the semi-criminals. They are more or less predatory, and are at present
shepherded by the police and punished by the gaoler. Their numbers cannot be
ascertained with very great precision, but the following figures are taken from
the prison returns of 1889:-
The criminal classes of Great Britain, in round figures, sum up a total of no
less than 90,000 persons, made up as follows:-
| Convict Prisons contain |
11,660 persons |
| Local Prisons contain |
20,883 persons |
| Reformatories for children convicted of crime |
1,270 persons |
| Industrial Schools for vagrant and refractory
children |
21,413 persons |
| Criminal Lunatics under restraint |
910 persons |
| Known thieves at large |
14,747 persons |
| Known receivers of stolen goods |
1,121 persons |
| Suspected persons |
17,042 persons |
| Total |
89,046 persons |
The above does not
include the great army of known prostitutes, nor the keepers and owners of
brothels and disorderly houses, as to whose numbers Government is rigidly
silent.
References:
In Darkest England and the Way Out, General Booth, October 1890.
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