Poor Law Conferences ...: Proceedings of the Central and District Poor Law Conferences ... with the Papers Read and Discussion Thereon, and Report of the Central Committee

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Pub. under the authority of the Central Committee of Poor Law Conferences, W.G. Lewis [secretary], 1902
 

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Side 413 - ... 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...
Side 282 - I take it to be a principle which will admit of no contradiction, that the existence of any permanent fund for the support of the poor — the appropriation of any revenue, however raised, which must peremptorily be expended in maintaining such as have no other means of subsistence — has, upon the whole, a direct tendency to increase their numbers.
Side 536 - You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.
Side 397 - That the Guardians shall from time to time, after consulting the medical officer, make such arrangements as they may deem necessary with regard to persons labouring under any disease of body or mind. Secondly. — The Guardians shall, so far as circumstances will permit, further subdivide any of the classes enumerated in Article 98, with reference to the moral character, or behaviour, or the previous habits of the inmates, or to such other grounds as may seem expedient.
Side 282 - In so far as the subject admits of any general doctrine or maxim, it would appear to be this that if assistance is given in such a manner that the condition of the person helped is as desirable as that of the person who succeeds in doing the same thing without help, the assistance, if capable of being previously calculated on, is mischievous: but if, while available to everybody, it leaves to every one a strong motive to do without it if he can, it is then for the most part beneficial.
Side 256 - deserted child " means a child deserted by both parents ; or deserted by one parent, the other being dead, or under sentence of penal servitude, or suffering permanently from mental disease, or being permanently bedridden or disabled and an inmate of a Workhouse, or being out of England...
Side 697 - From these stately palaces issued a swarm of dirty and ragged plebeians, without shoes and without a mantle; who loitered away whole days in the street or Forum to hear news and to hold disputes; who dissipated in extravagant gaming the miserable pittance of their wives and children; and spent the hours of the night in obscure taverns and brothels in the indulgence of gross and vulgar sensuality.
Side 563 - In granting outdoor relief to a member of any Friendly Society, the Board of Guardians shall not take into consideration any sum received from such Friendly Society as sick pay, except in so far as such sum shall exceed five shillings a week.
Side 282 - If the condition of a person receiving relief is made as eligible as that of the labourer who supports himself by his own exertions, the system strikes at the root of all individual industry and self-government...
Side 652 - Board under and by virtue of the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1834, or of any Act amending the said Act, it shall be lawful for any board of guardians, if they think fit, to grant relief out of the poor rates to any person otherwise entitled to such relief, notwithstanding that the said person shall, by reason of his membership of a friendly society, be in receipt of any sum, and that in estimating the amount of the relief that...

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