Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX A. Report by the Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law in Scotland.
- Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress 1905-09
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIX A. Report by the Rev. J.C. Pringle on the effects of employment or assistance given to the "unemployed" since 1886 as a means of relieving distress outside the Poor Law in Scotland. 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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![TABLE OF COmEmS—continued. PAGE Persons with unsatisfactory records 22 [56] Drunkenness 23 [37] Persons handicappe;] by racial character 23 [37] Official replies to queries on this subject 24 [38] (c) To what extent are the Unemployed persons belonging respectively to the artisan or labouring class ? 25 [39] Extent to which boys or females are displacing men, from Census returns :— Boys - - V - - - - - 25 [39] Females 2Q [40] Females under twenty years of age 26 [40] Males over twenty years of ago 27 [41] Aberdeen 27 [42] Dundee 27 [41] Edinburgh * - - - - - - 28 [42] Glasgow - - 29 [43] Labour Bureau Reports 30 [44] Leith 31 [45] Paisley ------ 32 [^] Other centres o2 [46] (d) To what extent are the Unemployed persons who are or have been members of Friendly Societies or Trade Unions'? 33 [47] (e) To what extent are the Unemployed persons on the Register of Voters for Parlia- mentary or other elections ? 34 [48] (/) To what extent are the Unemployed persons who have been recently in receipt of Poor Law Relief ? 35 [49] PART III.—Agencies for dealing with or providing against Unemployment. (a) —Distress Committees 38 [52] (b) —Municipal and Local Authorities -----38 [52] Notes from interviews with those engaged in the work :— Aberdeen - - - - - - - - 38 [52] Dundee . 38 [52] Edinburgh 38 [52] Glasgow 39 [53] (c) —Trade Unions 39 [53] {d)—Other agencies 41 [55] Police as agents of relief 41 [55] Labour Bureaux (Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Paisley) - - 41 [55] Scottish Labour Colony and Labour Colony proposals 41 [55] Overlapping 43 [57] Note on differences in Regulations under the Unemployed Workmen Act in England and Wales, and Scotland 44 [5S] PART IV.—The Effects of Assistance to the Unemployed. 1.—(a)—Does it discourage thrift ? 46 [60] Conditions 46 [6/?] A—Adolescents 46 [60] Continuation of education for half-time i6 [61] Extension of compulsory school age - - - - 47 [61] Military training 47 [61] Career and other stimulus to intelligence in :— Tweed manufacture - 47 [61] Corn mills 47 [61] Linen manufacture - . --47 [61] Tramway imdertaking 47 [61] Gelatine works ---- 47 [61] Coffee essence manufacture 47 [61]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2439998x_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
