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
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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 CONTENTS. PAGE Letter submitting Report, containing :— Copy of letter to Local Authorities x Copy of queries sent to Secretaries of Trades Councils xi List of Reports consulted xii PART I.—Parliamentary and other Re/ports, {a)—The recurrence of periods of distress which have led to unemployment - - - - 1 [75] Sec. 1.—Figures published in Board of Trade Labour Gazette 1 [15] Notes on Table of Depressions 1 [15] Seasonal Fluctuations 2 [16] „ 2.—Evidence from Dundee Year Books - - - - - - -' - - 2 [16] „ 3.—Evidence from Poor Rate collections 4 [18] „ 4.—Evidence from series of annual reports of C.O.S. and A.CLP. - - - - 4 [18] „ 5.—Evidence from the annual accounts of the Greenock Provident Bank - - 5 [19] „ 6.—Clyde shipbuilding figures down to 1886 6 [20] „ 7.—Note on great depressions in Glasgow 7 [21] „ 8.—Special inquiries 7 [21] Agreement among sources concerning depressions 8 [22] (b) —The predominant causes of distress at such periods 8 [22] Glasgow 9 [23] Evidence of Mr. Bell 9 [23] „ Mr. Motion 9 [23] i „ „ Mr. Hunter 10 [24] „ Dr. Chalmers - - - 10 [24] Alien Immigration 10 [24] Outworkers - - 11 [25] Edinburgh 11 [25] Report upon 1,400 school children - - 11 [25] Dundee - - - 12 [26] Report on housing and industrial conditions and school children - - - - 12 [26] * (c) —The means adopted for dealing, apart from the Poor Law, with unemployed persons by voluntary or other associations, local authorities, or other public bodies - - - 13 [27] (d) —TJtie extent and adequacy of the investigation and enquiry into individual cases adopted in various systems ------------- 13 [27] (e) —The amount and sources of monies raised for the purpose of assisting the unemployed - 13 [27] (/)—The co-operation between bodies dealing with the unemployed 13 [27] PART II.—Particulars as to the Unemployed.' 1. —A return as to the ages of the Unemployed - - - 15 [29] Ages of skilled and unskilled Unemployed 16 [30] „ „ Glasgow Unemployed 16 [30] „ from Glasgow Labour Bureau ^ - - 16 [30] „ of Edinburgh Unemployed - - 17 [31] „ ,, Dundee C.O.S. Applicants - - 18 [32] „ ,, Aberdeen A.C.I.P. appHcants 18 [32] „ from Leith Labour Registry 18 [32] 2. —(o) To what extent are the Unemployed recurrent cases ? - - - - - - 18 [32] (&) To what extent are the Unemployed persons out of work owing to sickness and other causes not directly due to dearth of employment ? 20 [34] Glasgow—Table of other causes , 21 [35] Sickness 21 [35] Mental and physical inability . - 21 [35] Persons voluntarily out of work 22 [36] 429. 2000—Wt. T.L. 313. 3/10. Wy. & S. 4339r. a 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2439998x_0009.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
