"In 1890 "General" Booth attracted further public attention by the publication of a work entitled "In Darkest England, and the Way Out", in which he proposed to remedy pauperism and vice by a series of ten expedients: (1) the city colony; (2) the farm colony; (3) the over-sea colony; (4) the household salvage brigade; (5) the rescue homes for fallen women; (6) deliverance for the drunkard; (7) the prison-gate brigade; (8) the poor man's bank; (9)(9) the poor man's lawyer; (io) White chapel-by the-Sea."
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Hugh Chisholm in The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, University Press, 1910, p. 240
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