A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of the Country and the Condition of the People, Volumen3

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P.S. King & son, 1899
 

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Página 73 - 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 ; he must hear parents threatening to follow the same
Página 285 - workhouse were to be so regulated as to invite the aged and infirm of the labouring class to take refuge in it, it would immediately be useless as a test between indigence and indolence or fraud—it would no longer operate as an inducement to the young and healthy
Página 70 - effects of each man's improvidence or misconduct are borne by himself and his family. The effect of that attempt has been to repeal pro tanto the law by which each man and his family enjoy the benefit of his own prudence and virtue. In abolishing punishment we equally abolish reward.
Página 386 - occasion during one month into any casual ward of the same union (and for this purpose London is to be deemed one union), he shall not be entitled to discharge himself before 9 o'clock in the morning of the fourth day after his admission. By a series of Orders the proper authorities are empowered to relax these provisions for
Página 48 - That it is clear to them that in almost all the country parishes which have hitherto come- under their notice, where a regular assessment has been established, the wants of the poor and the extent of the assessment have gradually and progressively increased from their commencement; and that it does appear to be a matter of very serious
Página 48 - possible, this practice from being generally adopted, —to limit the assessments as much as they can be limited, when the circumstances of particular parishes render them unavoidable, and whenever it is practicable to abandon them." This admission practically amounts to a condemnation of the whole principle of the English Poor Law.
Página 69 - spring from corruption, in consequence of the abuses which are ruining all the other interests of the places in which they are established, and cease to exist in the better administered districts in consequence of that better administration.
Página 62 - have been made definite, when wages upon the performance of work have been substituted for eleemosynary aid, and those wages have been allowed to remain matter of contract, employment has again produced content, and kindness become again a source of gratitude," The next section of the report is devoted to
Página 62 - THE ENGLISH POOR LAW trusted with the management of the fund provided for the poor. Those who work, though receiving good wages, being called poor and classed with the really indigent, think themselves entitled to a share of the 'poor funds.' Whatever addition is made to allowances under these circumstances excites the expectation
Página 372 - suitable labour. Complaints of neglect seem still to have been made, and in December 1839 a circular containing the following strongly worded remarks was issued :— " The Commissioners request the board of guardians to warn their officers that no consideration of past services will be deemed by the Commissioners a sufficient reason for their hesitating to remove any

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