A History of the English Poor Law Volume N . 2; In Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People epub
A History of the English Poor Law Volume N . 2; In Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People epub

A History of the English Poor Law Volume N . 2; In Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People. George Nicholls

A History of the English Poor Law Volume N . 2; In Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People
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Author: George Nicholls
Number of Pages: 152 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231165317
Download Link: A History of the English Poor Law Volume N . 2; In Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... this was accordingly done. Even those in receipt of an allowance from the parish were required to pay their poorrates, which thus became a contribution, not from one class only for the benefit of another, but from all of every class for relieving the necessities of the indigent; and the administrators of this relief were enabled to say, that their duty to the poor as well as to the rich, required from them the exercise of a strict economy in dispensing it. The consequences iu other respects were also beneficial, for the people took a pride in these payments, and exhibited the printed receipts which they obtained in return, as proofs that they also had contributed for the common benefit. Workhouse In aid of the other measures for improving parochial sell 1. administration at Southwell, a school was opened in a building adjoining the workhouse, to which one or more of the children of labourers burdened with large families and applying for relief, were admitted and kept during the day, returning to their parents at night. The "Overseer" states, that "the children were employed in a way suitable to their ages, were wholesomely fed, were taught to read the Bible, and instructed in their duty towards God and man. Those children who attended on Sunday had their dinners given to them, and were taken regularly to church."1 The success attending the new organisation and use of the workhouse at Southwell, led, in the latter end of 1823, to the incorporation of forty-nine neighbouring parishes, under 22 George III. cap. 83, for the purpose of providing a common workhouse, and managing the poor of the associated parishes according to the system adopted in Southwell. In thus acting, it was no doubt overlooked that the principle of this statute (known...

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