2-979-578 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"The Strangers' Home", West India Dock Road, Limehouse, [London], 1857. Lodgings for seamen. 'The building...is capable of accommodating 230 inmates, with apartments for superintendent, hospital, registry, shipping and secretary's offices, and, including lighting, warming, hot and cold baths and lavatories...The object of the institution is to offer to Indian sailors and other Orientals who come to England a comfortable and respectable lodging, with wholesome food, at a cost which shall render the institution self-supporting, Lodgers are to pay not less than eight shillings a week, for which they will be supplied with three meals a day, medical attendance, baths, washing, &c...arrangements will be made to...make remittances to their families...to procure them employment in vessels; [and] to present to all who can read, and desire it, a copy of the Holy Scriptures in their own language...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.