Further facts relating to the care of the poor, and the management of the workhouse, in the city of Norwich : being a sequel to a former publication / By Edward Rigby.

  • Edward Rigby
Date:
1812
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Credit: Further facts relating to the care of the poor, and the management of the workhouse, in the city of Norwich : being a sequel to a former publication / By Edward Rigby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I Am induced, a second time, to bring before the public some facts connected with the management, and more particularly the workhouse management of the poor within the city of Norwich, affecting, in no small degree, the general interests of the inhabi- tants, the particular interests of the unfortunate ob- jects of the poor laws, and, I may add, the genuine interests of humanity. As on the former occasion, I have a two-fold mo- tive for doing this;—I have a natural, and I trust a reasonable wish, to exonerate myself from the blame which has been imputed to me, by my opposers, in several attempts which I have made to eliect some regulations in the administration of this system, which I conceived to be salutary: And I am led to hope, that the exhibition of additional practical facts, on a subject of acknowledged difficulty, may be of use as connected with a branch of political economy becoming every day more important; and may even have a tendency, joined with similar reports from other places, to determine a question, for a long while agitated, and never decided, whe- B
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