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A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for penitent prostitutes . Observations concerning the Foundling-Hospital, shewing the ill consequences of giving public support thereto. Considerations relating to the poor and th poor's-laws of England; Wherein the great Increases of Unemployed Poor, and of Thieves and Prostitutes, are shewn to be immediately owing to the Severity, as well as the Defects of our Poor's - Laws; and to be primarily caused by the Monopolizing of Farms, and the Indosure of Common Lands; which have likewise decreased the Number of People, and brought our Woollen Manufacturies into a precarious State, as is made appear by Extracts from several Laws and other Authorities. Also, a New System of Policy, Most humbly proposed, for Relieving, Employing, and Ordering the Poor of England; Whereby a great Saving may be made in the Charge of Maintaining Them; the Poor's - Rates be kept nearly Equal in all Parishes, as in Equity they ought to be; and every Pretence for wandering about Begging, be taken away. To which are annexed, Forms of the principal Accounts necessary to be kept for those Purposes, whereby such Persons as are not conversant in Accounting will easily be able to comprehend all that is here proposed on that Head. By J. Massie.
Massie, J. (Joseph), d. 1784.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]
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Heads of a bill for the better relief and employment of the poor , and for the improvement of the police of this country. Submitted to the consideration of the members of both Houses of Parliament. By T. Gilbert.
Gilbert, Thomas, 1719 or 20-1798.Date: M,DCC,IXXXVI. [1786]
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Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry , its establishment and regulations; with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view. By I. Wood. To which is added, the second edition of the Bye-Laws, rules, and ordinances, of the said house.
Wood, IsaacDate: 1791
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Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry , its establishment and regulations; with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view. By I. Wood. The second edition. To which is added, the third edition of the bye-laws, rules, and ordinances, of the said house. Also an appendix; containing a correspondence with the Rev. J. Howlett, Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex, Author of several Essays on Population, and of an Enquiry into the Mortality of Country Houses of Industry, &c.
Wood, IsaacDate: 1791
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An Historical treatise on the laws for the relief and management of the poor : containing an abstract of the statute 22d George III, with illustrations, calculated to shew the expediency of establishing houses of industry.
Date: 1791
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The first report of the Society, for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poor
Society for bettering the condition and increasing the comforts of the poorDate: 1797
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A summary view of the objects and beneficial provisions in Mr. Gilbert's new bill, now before the House of Commons intended to recommend it to public notice and encouragement.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]
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Considerations on parochial evils : a letter addressed to Thomas Gilbert, Esq.
Date: 1788
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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 ... the whole most respectfully submitted to the consideration of the Parliament.
Date: 1773
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A treatise on the better employment , and More Comfortable Support, of the Poor in Workhouses. Together with Some Observations on the Growth and Culture of Flax. With Divers New Inventions, neatly engraved on Copper, for the Improvement of the Linen Manufacture, of which The Importance and Advantages are considered and evinced. By William Bailey, Member of the Society for promoting Arts and Commerce.
Bailey, William, fl. 1770.Date: M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]
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Information for overseers , collected from the first volume of the reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. And published by order of the Society.
Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor.Date: 1799
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Some account of the Shrewsbury House of Industry, its establishment and regulations; with hints to those who may have similar institutions in view By I. Wood. The fourth edition, with some enlargements. To which are added a correspondence on the subject with the Rev. J. Howlett, &c. and the bye-laws, rules and ordinances of the said house.
Wood, IsaacDate: 1795
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Considerations on the subject of poor-houses and work-houses , their pernicious tendency, And their Obstruction to the the proposed plan for amendment of the poor laws; in a letter to the Rt. Hon. W. Pitt, from Sir William Young, Bart. F. R. S.
Young, William, Sir, 1749-1815.Date: 1796
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Statutes of the corporation of the Orphan hospital and workhouse at Edinburgh. To which is prefixed An account of the said hospital from its establishment in 1733
Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at EdinburghDate: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]