When the man gets into prison, the woman and children go into the nearest workhouse.
When the man is released from prison he finds the woman and children waiting for him, and away they go refreshed and cleansed by prison and workhouse treatment.
We must stop for ever this costly and disastrous course of life.

How?
By establishing in every county and under county authorities, or, if necessary, by a combination of counties, special colonies for vagrants, one for males and another for females.

Every vagrant who could not give proof that he had some definite object in tramping must be committed to these colonies and detained, till such time as definite occupation or home be found for him.
Here they should live and work, practically earning their food and clothing; their lives should be made clean and decent, and certainly economical.

For these colonies there must be of course State aid.
The children must be adopted by the board of guardians or education authorities and trained in small homes outside the workhouse gates this should be compulsory.
These two plans would certainly clear away the worst and most hopeless tribes of nomads, and though for a short time they would impose considerable pecuniary obligations upon us, yet we should profit even financially in the near future, and, best of all, should prevent a second generation arising to fill the place of those detained.
The same methods should be adopted with the wretched mass of humanity that crowds nightly on the Thames Embankment.

Philanthropy is worse than useless with the great majority of these people.