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Page 4
... probably much below the truth . " I do not think that 4,000,000l . , nearly double the then amount of the poor - rate , can have been distributed to the poor of England by voluntary charity in 1783 , 1784 , or 1785. Baron De GĂ©rando ...
... probably much below the truth . " I do not think that 4,000,000l . , nearly double the then amount of the poor - rate , can have been distributed to the poor of England by voluntary charity in 1783 , 1784 , or 1785. Baron De GĂ©rando ...
Page 5
... probably been less , by one million ster- ling , than was expended in the year ended in March , 1848 . Nevertheless , even in 1851 , the year's expenditure in actual relief of the poor is still 5,000,000l . sterling , under these most ...
... probably been less , by one million ster- ling , than was expended in the year ended in March , 1848 . Nevertheless , even in 1851 , the year's expenditure in actual relief of the poor is still 5,000,000l . sterling , under these most ...
Page 12
... probably be sufficiently in- dicated by a subjoined table . * It exhibits the average number of the in - door and out - door recipients of relief , in several manufacturing towns , on each day of the year ended 25th March , 1851 . The ...
... probably be sufficiently in- dicated by a subjoined table . * It exhibits the average number of the in - door and out - door recipients of relief , in several manufacturing towns , on each day of the year ended 25th March , 1851 . The ...
Page 18
... probably give even less , than did the former returns of the Poor Law Commissioners , towards determining the proportion between the able - bodied adults and the whole number of paupers of any given year . An accurate comparison between ...
... probably give even less , than did the former returns of the Poor Law Commissioners , towards determining the proportion between the able - bodied adults and the whole number of paupers of any given year . An accurate comparison between ...
Page 28
... probably , are on a level with others in this respect , less than half the children of the labouring classes go to school at all , and those who do go , leave for the most part at so very early an age , that their schooling does ...
... probably , are on a level with others in this respect , less than half the children of the labouring classes go to school at all , and those who do go , leave for the most part at so very early an age , that their schooling does ...
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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