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Page 11
... contain a certain number of persons counted twice over : my returns have corrected this . The master of each work- house is able to apply the correction for the in - door poor , and the relieving officer , if intelligent , and willing ...
... contain a certain number of persons counted twice over : my returns have corrected this . The master of each work- house is able to apply the correction for the in - door poor , and the relieving officer , if intelligent , and willing ...
Page 14
... contain a still larger proportion of able - bodied adult paupers out of the whole number relieved , than is found in their respective numbers on a given day . Prior to , and in 1848 , the Poor Law Commissioners en- deavoured to compare ...
... contain a still larger proportion of able - bodied adult paupers out of the whole number relieved , than is found in their respective numbers on a given day . Prior to , and in 1848 , the Poor Law Commissioners en- deavoured to compare ...
Page 67
... containing about one - fifth of the cul- tivated land of England and Wales , have a total agricultural population of 273,218 , which very slightly exceeds the general average ; for the agricultural population of the whole country is ...
... containing about one - fifth of the cul- tivated land of England and Wales , have a total agricultural population of 273,218 , which very slightly exceeds the general average ; for the agricultural population of the whole country is ...
Page 74
... contain 11,399 square miles , and a population of only 220 on the square mile . Name of District . Population in 1851 . Expended for Relief of the Poor in the Year ended at Lady - day , 1850 . Proportion per Head on Population . London ...
... contain 11,399 square miles , and a population of only 220 on the square mile . Name of District . Population in 1851 . Expended for Relief of the Poor in the Year ended at Lady - day , 1850 . Proportion per Head on Population . London ...
Page 81
... containing a population smaller than that of Scotland f , gives 178,864 persons , as its paupers relieved on the 1st January , 1851 , or nearly 1 in 14 of its population . The day's pauperism of Scotland , as returned for the 14th May ...
... containing a population smaller than that of Scotland f , gives 178,864 persons , as its paupers relieved on the 1st January , 1851 , or nearly 1 in 14 of its population . The day's pauperism of Scotland , as returned for the 14th May ...
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25th March administration agricultural counties agricultural labourer alms amount Annual appears average number bishop century chargeable charity Charles II Church classes clergy cloth condition cottages destitution Dorset Edition England and Wales Engravings evils existing expended half-year Henry VIII History houses impotent poor In-door increase inhabitants JANE MARCET justices justices of peace labour Lady-day land landowners law of settlement legislation London Lord lunatic ment metropolis morocco nearly number of paupers number of persons order of removal out-door relief overseers parish parliament parochial paupers relieved persons relieved Poor Law Board Poor Law Commissioners poor persons poor-rate population Post 8vo present proportion provision quarter ratepayers receiving relief reign rental repeal Report residence respect serf settlement and removal Stafford West statute of Charles statute of Elizabeth THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY towns union vagrant villein whole number Woodcuts workhouses Worksop