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Poor - Great Britain - Economic conditions - Early works to 1800

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    Outlines of an attempt to establish a just and regular equivalent for the labour and support of the poor and to reconcile the weights of the kingdom to one standard, by connecting them with the copper coinage.

    | Prinsep, John 1746-1830. | Date: 1797
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    Dissertation on the best means of maintaining and employing the poor in parish work-houses Published at the request of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce: Having obtained the Premium offered by the Society for the best Treatise on this Subject. By John Mason Good, Author of "the Prize Dissertation on the diseases of Prisons and Poor-Houses;" published at the Request of the Medical Society of London; and of "the History of Medicine, &c." published at the Request of the General pharmaceutic Association of Great Britain.

    | Good, John Mason 1764-1827. | Date: 1798

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