Report of the Poor Law Commissioners to the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby

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W. Clowes and sons, 1840 - 306 עמודים

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עמוד 41 - Act, unless he shall have been rated to the Relief of the' Poor for the whole Year immediately preceding his so voting or otherwise acting as such Rate-payer, and shall have paid the Parochial Rates and Assessments...
עמוד 105 - Where the relief shall be required by the wife, child, or children of any able-bodied man who shall be in the service of Her Majesty as a soldier, sailor, or marine. 8th. Where any able-bodied person, not being a soldier, sailor, or marine, shall not reside within the Union, but the wife, child, or children of such person shall reside within the same, the Board of Guardians of the Union, according to their discretion, may...
עמוד 45 - The fundamental principle with respect to the legal relief of the poor is, that the condition of the pauper ought to be, on the whole, less eligible than that of the independent labourer.
עמוד 166 - ... contract may, if the guardians think proper, contain a clause, by -which the said medical officer shall engage to attend, at a fair and reasonable charge per head, to be named in such contract, on all persons not belonging to any parish or...
עמוד 106 - ... medical officer's weekly report (if any such officer shall have attended the case), stating the nature of such sickness, accident, or infirmity, shall be specially entered in the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Guardians of the day on which the relief is ordered or subsequently allowed. But if the...
עמוד 4 - ... hold his office for a longer period than five years next after the day of the passing of this act, and thenceforth until the end of the then next session of parliament...
עמוד 45 - All distribution of relief in money or goods to be spent or consumed by the pauper in his own house is inconsistent with the principle in question.
עמוד 54 - Provided also, that it shall and may be lawful for any licensed minister of the religious persuasion of any inmate of such workhouse, at all times in the day, on the request of such inmate, to visit such workhouse for the purpose or affording religious assistance to such inmate, and also for the purpose of instructing his child or children in the principles of their religion.
עמוד 119 - The atmosphere of a workhouse that contains adult paupers is tainted with vice,' says Mr. Tufnell, in his Eeport on the training of pauper children. ' No one who regards the future happiness of the children would ever wish them to be educated within its precincts.
עמוד 47 - 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...

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