Hot soup in the small hours of a cold morning is doubtless comforting to them, and if the night is wet, foggy, etc., a cover for a few hours is doubtless a luxury.

They drink the soup, they take advantage of the cover, and go away, to return at night for more soup and still another cover.

Oh, the folly of it all! We must have shelters for them, but the County Council must provide them.

Large, clean and healthy places into which, night by night, the human derelicts from the streets should be taken by special police.
But there should be no release with the morning light, but detention while full inquiries are made regarding them.

Friends would doubtless come forward to help many, but the remainder should be classified according to age and physical and mental condition, and released only when some satisfactory place or occupation is forthcoming for them.
The nightly condition of the Embankment is not only disgraceful, but it is dangerous to the health and wellbeing of the community.
It is almost inconceivable that we should allow those parts of London which are specially adapted for the convenience of the public to be monopolised by a mass of diseased and unclean humanity.