Volume 1

Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales.

  • Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.
Date:
1835-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Poor Law Commissioners for England and Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    § 26. § 27. § 28. § 29, tigation and § 30, § 31. § 32. § 33. § 34, § 35. Provident institutions: increase of savings'-banks and friendly societies Increase in the number of depositors and the amount of deposits Removals, diminution in the number of . Bastardy, beneficial operation of the provisions regarding Evidence of diminution ..... Improvement of morality amongst females . Pregnancy no longer a passport to marriage • . Objections to the clauses regarding . . Encouragement of litigation .... Entire repeal recommended by Commissioners of the statutory provisions under which proceedings can be taken against the father by the parish Fallacy of making the poor laws a means of punishing the seducer No evidence of evils consequent upon the recent alteration of the law . Non-resident paupers, discontinuance of relief to ordered by Commis- sioners ...... . . • • Reasons for the discontinuance Grounds of application for relief, beyond the reach of inves revision . ... • • • • • Beneficial operation of rule . . . . Statements in support of applications for a relaxation of aggerated ....... Riotous proceedings of paupers .... Occasioned by the substitution of relief in land Preceded by complaints of shopkeepers ... Incitement of labourers to riot .... Suppression of riots ...... Obstructions less than might, under all circumstances, have been ex- pected Considerable proportion of labouring classes not adverse to the change of system . . . • • • •_• • • Assistance of magistrates in carrying the Act into operation Boards of Guardians: Few instances of parishes omitting to elect Guardians . . Constant and laborious attendance of Guardians Prompt compliance of parish officers with Commissioners' recommenda- tions . . Union and parish accounts ........ Future progress . . ♦ _ ♦ • • • • • Prospective benefit from operation of the Act he rule, ex- Page 55 56 56 56 57 57 53 58 58 60 60 60 61 61 61 61 62 62 62 62 62 63 63 63 64 65 65 65 66 66 66 LIST OF APPENDIX. APPENDIX A. DOCUMENTS ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL BOARD. 67 68 No. 1. 'circular Letter to Parish Officers, dated 4th September, 1834 2. Queries sent with the above Circular .... 3. Circular to Magistrates, &c, dated 6th October, 1834 4. Circular to Parish Officers, dated 8th November, 1834 * * ,. lA 5. Form of Order for the Declaration of a Union and Election of Guardians 74 6. Orders and Regulations for the Government of a Board of Guardians . /S 7. Circular Letter to Manufacturers relative to the Migration of Labourers 8. Circular of Instructions for facilitating Emigration . 9. Workhouse Rules . . • • ♦ • • 11] 10. Workhouse Plans . • • • . * , a \ * 'in 11, Order for the Keeping, Examining, and Auditing of Accounts . . in