The Scottish Poor Law, and some contrasts between its principles and the practices that have grown upon it : being a paper read ... on 28th May 1869, at the request of the Chalmers Association ... / by D. Curror.

Date:: 1869

Credit: The Scottish Poor Law, and some contrasts between its principles and the practices that have grown upon it : being a paper read ... on 28th May 1869, at the request of the Chalmers Association ... / by D. Curror. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$,8jn3-icq -nodi ^g^ftfri l^ln^ifete*-bf'lkiittb^---! Relieved,-'I'Sdef^l aiin; i;--.L;/r;T . . 5079 'liiJx'.Of whonilrisil: and foteigriers, . . 2424 37-r!Sci)tcVborn_out of City Parish, . 1480, OJ ij^r.o!i airlj oJ fcfoqtjj. ovr.&gc 'jfh to o^r.riT I'-v >■ 39.04 \ti Born in eity Parish, . • • ii75 douhf 5079 Reiieved 1867-8, f,., . . . • ,).. ,,.., 5^9 Of \vhora Irishand foreign,' . . 2423 ' Scotch, born out of City Parish, . 1626 lo ^ 4049 Born in City Parish, . . . 1070 5119 Reheved, 1868-9, . . . . .5146 Of whom Irish and foreign, . . 1958 Scotch, born out of City Parish, . 1996 3954 Born in City Parish, . . . 1192 5146 -m;. r rfolli] iid 'lo j/rr >q'/' M:miAmSifxjmMpQ^t of City Parochial Board as to Boarding k-hqeod ods to smoT Pauper Cliildren. I'Biis''Board;lia^ ipv'er j^elV iW they occupy the place _<if jDJircints' to all orphaiTS ^Iiite,'whatever may have been the faith 'of their parents. The responsibility, is laid on parents not ^9nly to provide for the material wants of their children, but to .i^jfain and educate them in faith and morals. But the parental [^authority of the parish is controlled by the niles of the Board ■J^of Supervision, who step in and say—The responsibility of bring- ;,ing up these orphan children lies upon you ; but you shall only ^educate them in a particular faith—and they issue regulations iipon the subject, which confessedly the Board has adhered to$