Almshouses - Great Britain - Early works to 1800

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Particular answers to the most material objections made to the proposal humbly presented to His Majesty for relieving, reforming, and employing all the poor of Great Britain
Braddon, Laurence, -1724.Date: 1722
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An Act for amending and making more effectual an Act made in the second and third years of the reign of the late Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the erecting a work-house in the city of Worcester, and for setting the poor on work there
Great BritainDate: 1730]
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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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Considerations on the present state of the poor in Great-Britain . With proposals for making the most effectual provision for them. Which will be Attended with this Great Advantage, the Present Enormous Poor's Rates Must of Course be Greatly Reduced, and that in a Very Short Time. The whole most respectfully submitted to the consideration of the parliament.
Humanus, fl. 1773.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]