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The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor / [Ed. by (Sir) T. Bernard].

  • Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain)
Date:
1811
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Credit: The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor / [Ed. by (Sir) T. Bernard]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    For the immediate management of the business of the society, an annual committee, with a steward, clerk, and treasurer, are elected, and two visitors are appointed from each parish. The number of members has never reached two hundred: consisting for the most part of farmers, artificers, labourers, and their families. * J \ I