One Thousand Homeless Men a Study of Original Records
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* The habit of begging did not, in any of these cases, become chronic until after drink, drugs, disease, accident, or age had seriously handicapped the man. At the time of their application to the Bureau only 10 of the 44 could be considered as in sound physical condi- tion and of these, six were over fifty-three years of age. Nineteen of the 44 (or 43 per cent) were habitual drunkards. This is a higher percentage of drunkenness than was found among other types of beggars or among homeless men ...in general. That these men had taken to mendicancy rather late in life is evidenced in part by the fact that their average age is forty-seven. That long resi- dence in cheap lodging houses had contributed to * See Chapter IX, p. 139. Seasonal and Casual Labor.
176 CHRONIC BEGGARS the demoralization of a majority of them is prob- able, since 48 per cent had spent an average of eight years in the district. Thirty-four per cent had been in Chicago less than a year, but of these, several had lived for some time in the cheap lodging houses of other cities.
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* The habit of begging did not, in any of these cases, become chronic until after drink, drugs, disease, accident, or age had seriously handicapped the man. At the time of their application to the Bureau only 10 of the 44 could be considered as in sound physical condi- tion and of these, six were over fifty-three years of age. Nineteen of the 44 (or 43 per cent) were habitual drunkards. This is a higher percentage of drunkenness than was found among other types of beggars or among homeless men ...in general. That these men had taken to mendicancy rather late in life is evidenced in part by the fact that their average age is forty-seven. That long resi- dence in cheap lodging houses had contributed to * See Chapter IX, p. 139. Seasonal and Casual Labor.
176 CHRONIC BEGGARS the demoralization of a majority of them is prob- able, since 48 per cent had spent an average of eight years in the district. Thirty-four per cent had been in Chicago less than a year, but of these, several had lived for some time in the cheap lodging houses of other cities.
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