Self-supporting charitable and parochial dispensaries / [Henry Lilley Smith].

  • Henry Lilley Smith
Date:
[1830]
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Credit: Self-supporting charitable and parochial dispensaries / [Henry Lilley Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ments, many might be enabled to do without their aid, if they were habituated to lay aside a small portion of what they can earn when they are in health. The advantages of Mr. Smith’s Plan, then, are, that it affords the labourer opportunities, and holds out to him encouragements, to make this pro- vision in health, for what he may require in sick¬ ness ; and consequently tends to preserve him from wholly depending on the charity of others in any circumstances; and especially, from becoming a dependent on parish-pay. It tends to preserve the first class of labourers in self dependance, and to prevent them from falling into the second class, or both into the third. It tends also to raise the lowest into the second, and the second into the first class, or that of self-dependant labourers. It fur¬ ther provides more effectually for the care of the poor of parishes in sickness; and offers the means of remunerating the medical practitioner in a less objectionable manner. These encouragements, opportunities, and pro¬ visions, will be seen to be comprehended in the fol¬ lowing Plan.
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