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... Effect of the Law of Settlement on the Dwellings of Labourers in Agriculture CHAP . XV . On the Necessity of a total Repeal of the Law of Settlement and Removal of the Poor CHAP . XVI . 272 288 303 Remedy by abolishing Removals , and ...
... Effect of the Law of Settlement on the Dwellings of Labourers in Agriculture CHAP . XV . On the Necessity of a total Repeal of the Law of Settlement and Removal of the Poor CHAP . XVI . 272 288 303 Remedy by abolishing Removals , and ...
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... effect was fully produced in the year ended at Lady - day , 1837 , in which the sum ex- pended in the relief of the poor was only 4,044,7417 . From 1837 there has been a considerable increase of ex- penditure in relief of the poor , as ...
... effect was fully produced in the year ended at Lady - day , 1837 , in which the sum ex- pended in the relief of the poor was only 4,044,7417 . From 1837 there has been a considerable increase of ex- penditure in relief of the poor , as ...
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... effects of pauperism is its destruction of human life . The accidents , disease , and bodily suffering to which the poor are specially subjected , make their existence everywhere much shorter than the average duration of life of the ...
... effects of pauperism is its destruction of human life . The accidents , disease , and bodily suffering to which the poor are specially subjected , make their existence everywhere much shorter than the average duration of life of the ...
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... effect of fever , both on the health and happiness of those who are compelled to ask for parish relief , and on the pockets of those who are obliged to pay for it . " There is no disease which brings so much affliction into a poor man's ...
... effect of fever , both on the health and happiness of those who are compelled to ask for parish relief , and on the pockets of those who are obliged to pay for it . " There is no disease which brings so much affliction into a poor man's ...
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... effect , lessen con- siderably the prevalence of crimes ? " Mr. Justice Wightman , in answering this question , states his hope , that the first effect of the general diffusion of education and infant training will be , " to change the ...
... effect , lessen con- siderably the prevalence of crimes ? " Mr. Justice Wightman , in answering this question , states his hope , that the first effect of the general diffusion of education and infant training will be , " to change the ...
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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