Public Relief of the Poor: Six LecturesJ. Murray, 1901 - 214 páginas |
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able abuses Act of Elizabeth adequate adopted adscription aid of wages Amendment Act applicant argument authority better mechanism Board of Guardians body Central Board Chadwick Chalmers charitable agencies Charity Organisation Society Commissioners compulsory assessment condition course destitution difficulty dispauperisation duty economic motive EDWIN CHADWICK emancipation endeavoured endowments English Poor Law evil experience favour feudal Francis Place Friendly Society Gilbert's Act gratuitous important independent labourer industry influence inquiry institution interest Jeremy Bentham justices legislation Lord maintenance ment Nassau Senior necessary object old age pensions Old Poor Law organisation outdoor relief overseers parish parochial persons Poor Law administration Poor Law Board Poor Law relief poor rate poorer classes population practical principle proposal provident public charity public relief question reform Report responsibility result secure serf settlement sickness social statute system of public systems of relief thing tion treatment unions voluntary workhouse
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Página 83 - ... the spirit and intention of the 43rd of Elizabeth) shall be declared unlawful, and shall cease, in manner and at periods hereafter specified ; and that all relief afforded in respect of children under the age of 16, shall be considered as afforded to their parents.
Página 41 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them , and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...
Página 43 - If they will employ the poor in some manufacture which was not made in England before, or not bought with some manufacture made here before, then they offer at something extraordinary. But to set poor people at work, on the same thing which other people were employed on before, and at the same time not increase the consumption, is giving to one what you take away from another...
Página 64 - ... **»***A person must converse with paupers ; must enter workhouses and examine the inmates ; must attend at the parish pay-table, before he can form a just conception of the moral debasement which is the offspring of the present system. He must hear the pauper threaten to abandon his wife and family unless more money is allowed him ; threaten to abandon an aged, bed-ridden mother ; to turn her out of his house and lay her down at the overseer's door, unless he is paid for giving her shelter ;...
Página 41 - ... a convenient stock of flax hemp wool thread iron and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work: and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame impotent old blind and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Página 64 - ... ignominy, and witness women in cottages quietly pointing out, without even the question being asked, which are their children by their husband, and which by other men previous to marriage ; and when he finds that he can scarcely step into a town or parish in any county without meeting with some instance or other of this character, he will no longer consider the pecuniary pressure on the ratepayer as the first in the class of evils which the Poor Laws have entailed upon the community...
Página 82 - The chief specific measures which we recommend for effecting these purposes areFirst, that except as to medical attendance, and subject to the exception respecting apprenticeship herein-after stated, all relief whatever to able-bodied persons or to their families, otherwise than in well-regulated workhouses (ie places where they may be set to work according to the spirit and intention of the 43rd. of Elizabeth) shall be declared unlawful, and shall cease...
Página 121 - With regard to the aged and infirm, however, there is a strong disposition on the part of a portion of the public so to modify the arrangements of these establishments as to place them on the footing of almshouses. The consequences which would flow from this change have only to be pointed out to show its inexpediency and danger. If the condition of the inmates of a workhouse were to be so regulated as to invite the aged and infirm...
Página 38 - Easter, under the hand and seal of two or more justices of the peace in the same county, whereof one to be of the quorum, dwelling in or near the same parish or division where the same parish doth lie, shall be called overseers of the poor...
Página 82 - If we believed the evils stated in the previous part of the Report, or evils resembling or even approaching them, to be necessarily incidental to the compulsory relief of the able-bodied, we should not hesitate in recommending its entire abolition. But we do not believe these evils to be its necessary consequences. We believe that, under strict regulations, adequately enforced, such relief may be afforded safely and even beneficially.