Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-04-17 | Page 10 | 'Doss' Habitues Occupy Same Bed over 30 Years

Doss Occupy Same Bed Over 30 Years i Statistic Statistics Show Average Average Average Aver Aver- age age- of 1682 F Frequent Frequent Fre Fre- re quent Che Cheap p Hotels LO LONDON DON April 11 16 United Pre Press Pres s An n average of men men and women who have no no permanent homes live at night In Lond London n dosshouses or other other- where cheap b beds ds are a available la ac acV acV- cording to a report of Dr F. F N. N Kay Menzies medical officer of health of the London county council Many of the frequenters enters of the cheap houses are lodging are regulars Dr Menzles Menzies d declared cl red and have oc occupied occupied occupied oc- oc the same bed bed in many cases for more than thirty years The report stated that whatever the social or or personal circumstances In each in individual case case- th there re is no doubt that the inhabitant of a doss house ultimately becomes unfitted for the complexities and responsibilities of the tho ordinary domestic home The deadliest feature of the com common mon lodging house is the utter lack of domesticity the report added It Is the atrophy of the domestic atroPhY instincts that is the dominant and distinctive feature of th the dosser class Could they be restored theother the theother other virtues would would- follow and the wretched masquerade of- of ofa fa f- f a e which perforce the must always be bs be would give place to the fuller and more satisfying conditions conditions conditions condi condi- of the domestic hearth habitual dosser The needs of the are simple hi his or her or-her her earning power is of the lowest loest Th The comm common n lodging lodging lodging ing house class shades off at its lower end Into the destitute and the mentally degraded At its upper end ft is from the healthy wholesome working clas class In the the unskilled worker Is the predominant class They include the general laborer the street seller dock work worker r bill poster and sandwich man Dr Menzies Menzles declared his studies studie of the the women's dosshouses had convinced convinced convinced con con- vinced him that the younger girls in these places fall Into p. p quite different dif different dir dir- ferent category from the groups of older women who wh he asserted I are of or the common street type The younger girls include those who vh have run run awa away from home he said many for adv adventure many because th they y wanted to work rather than the ties of a home Others are servants who have left their positions positions abruptly and but very rarely servants who lost their p positions by being locked out at right night after staying staying stayIng stay- stay Ing away too late Many M ny of o these girls are of a good g type others are re ripe for mischief The rep reports added that b bv by far the largest class in the women's women dosshouses dosshouses dosshouses doss- doss houses are of or the unskilled type match sellers match sellers street hawkers cleaners cleaners cleaners clean clean- ers charwomen and domestic servants set ser of the lower classe classes i I