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Poor - England - London - Early works to 1800

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    A Charitable proposal for relieving the sick and needy, and other distressed persons

    | Date: 1720
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    Some hints in regard to the better management of the poor: in a letter to a noble lord

    | Date: M.DCC.LXXXIV. [1784]
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    A plan of the Surry Dispensary , in Montague-Close, near St. Saviour's Church, for the relief of the poor inhabitants of the borough of Southwark and places adjacent, at their own Habitations. Instituted in the year 1777.

    Surrey Dispensary | Date: [1778?]
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    An account of a meat and soup charity , established in the Metropolis, in the year 1797, with observations relative to the situation of the poor, and On the Means of Bettering the Condition of the Labouring People with regard to Food: And of increasing their comforts in other respects, by a more frugal mode of living, particularly in the City of London, and its environs. By a magistrate.

    Colquhoun, Patrick, 1745-1820. | Date: 1797
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    Forms of proposals for augmenting small livings, &c

    Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty (Great Britain) | Date: 1718]
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