A treatise on indigence; exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of the poor, and improving the moral habits and increasing the comforts of the labouring people ... / by P. Colquhoun.
- Patrick Colquhoun
- Date:
- 1806
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on indigence; exhibiting a general view of the national resources for productive labour; with propositions for ameliorating the condition of the poor, and improving the moral habits and increasing the comforts of the labouring people ... / by P. Colquhoun. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Xt Ultimately increasing the Mass of Indigence, augmented also by the Want of religious and moral Instruction.—The improvident Habits of a great Proportion of the working Classes in popu- lous Towns lead to Indigence and Profligacy, ma- nifested by the large Sums expended in Alehouses, which are required for the Support of their Fa- milies.—Three fourths of the Paupers who re- ceived Relief in ] 803, owe their Distress to In- temperance, Want of Economy and improvident Habits leading them to the Pawnbroker's for temporary Relief—One Million yearly supposed to be paid to these Money-dealers by the Poor. Observations on the agricultural Poor.—Other Reasons assigned for the Increase of Indigence. —Strictures^ on the existing Pauper System.— Suggestions'offered with a Flew to the Removal of the Evil — — Page 230 to 247 CHAPTER X. Summary View of the Remedies suggested in this IVork, susceptible of immediateAdoption.—A Board of general and interned Police.■—An im- proved System of Friendly Societies.—The Edu- cation of the Children of the Poor.—Apprentice- ships. Explanatory Observations under these several Heads. Further Observations on the Law of Settlements And on the System of Workhouses,—These Subjects elucidated by va- rious Tables.—General Reflections arising from the facts thus disclosed.—Concluding Ob serva- tions on Manners and Habits in vulgar Life 248 to 28 J](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22037500_0017.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
