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... mean population of England and Wales has been 16,918,458 : the mean expenditure for the relief of the poor , during the same period , will be seen by the following statement : Year . Sum expended in Relief of the Poor for the Year ended ...
... mean population of England and Wales has been 16,918,458 : the mean expenditure for the relief of the poor , during the same period , will be seen by the following statement : Year . Sum expended in Relief of the Poor for the Year ended ...
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... means of sub- sistence , in part at least , from the poor - rate . The questions to be determined will be : 1. What number of persons are admitted yearly into workhouses and there relieved ? 2. What number of persons are relieved yearly ...
... means of sub- sistence , in part at least , from the poor - rate . The questions to be determined will be : 1. What number of persons are admitted yearly into workhouses and there relieved ? 2. What number of persons are relieved yearly ...
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... period or other of the year , was nearly four times as great as the mean number of those who were receiving relief on any given day . Having found it utterly impossible , on the published Annual CHAP . I. 9 OF PAUPERS IN ENGLAND .
... period or other of the year , was nearly four times as great as the mean number of those who were receiving relief on any given day . Having found it utterly impossible , on the published Annual CHAP . I. 9 OF PAUPERS IN ENGLAND .
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... means to deserve the censure with which they have been recently visited , in an official report , by the Poor Law Board . * It is there said , " As regards the number of paupers relieved , it has been the practice heretofore to take the ...
... means to deserve the censure with which they have been recently visited , in an official report , by the Poor Law Board . * It is there said , " As regards the number of paupers relieved , it has been the practice heretofore to take the ...
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... means of approxi- mating towards the great desideratum , the number of poor people relieved in a year , these much abused returns are * Eleventh Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners , p . 3 . of more use , even now , than the ...
... means of approxi- mating towards the great desideratum , the number of poor people relieved in a year , these much abused returns are * Eleventh Annual Report of the Poor Law Commissioners , p . 3 . of more use , even now , than 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