TWENTY-SIXTH REPORT

OF

THE SOCIETY

FOR

BETTERING THE CONDITION

AND

INCREASING THE COMFORTS

OF THE POOR.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY,

BY W. BULMER AND CO. CLEVELAND-ROW, ST. JAMES'S ;
AND SOLD BY J. HATCHARD, OPPOSITE ALBANY-

ALSO BY

PLACE, PICCADILLY;

BECKET, PALL-MALL; ROBSON, BOND-STREET;
PAYNE, MEW'S GATE; RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH
YARD; EGERTON, WHITEHALL; CADELL AND DAVIES,
STRAND; AND VERNOR AND HOOD, POULTRY. ALSO BY
TODD, YORK;
HAZARD, BATH; AKENHEAD AND SONS,
NEWCASTLE; PENNINGTON AND STANLEY, DURHAM;
BROWNE, HULL; EASTON, SALISBURY; TREWMAN, EX E-
TER; CLARKE, MANCHESTER; HOUGH, CLOCESTER; AND
LEE, AT LEWES.

May 1805

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CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

REPORT XIX.

Introductory Letter to the Fourth Volume, addressed

to the Rt. Hon. Henry Addington.-Account of

free chapel schools-of charity for lying-in women

-of cotton mills at Rothsay-APPENDIX, Contain-

ing report on cotton mills-advice as to dram-

drinking.

REPORT XX.

Account of supply of blankets to the poor-of society

in West-street-of supply of food and employment

at Mongewell-of straw platt at Avebury-of ladies

schools, &c. at Leeds.-APPENDIX, Containing

hints as to split straw-advice to Foundling Appren-

tices.

REPORT XXI.

Account of contagious fever at Hull-of new cottage

grates of Montgomery house of industry-of

Sunday school at Kirkstall—of school for straw platt

at Fincham-APPENDIX, containing regulations of

the free chapel society-mode of reception of found-

ling children.

REPORT XXII.

Account of Ladies Committee-lying-in charity-
charity at Wymeswould-bank for the poor-paro-

chial returns in Ireland-school in the Borough—

house of refuge.-APPENDIX, address to and pro-

posed objects of Ladies Committee—regulations of

school-straw platt-ware-house for ditto-enquiry

about schools-Manchester repository-female semi-

nary.

REPORT XXIII.

Account of Mortlake friendly society-Hawkstone

school-charity in Tortela.-APPENDIX. Proposals

as to the poor-Address of ladies committee—regu.

lations of ditto-list of ditto-resolutions of Mortlake

society for promoting the welfare of the poor.

REPORT XXIV.

Account of mode of employing parish children at
Birmingham-of provision for sick poor at Ongar
APPENDIX Containing queries from Ladies Com-
mittee a clergyman's legacy-report of the Ken-
dal schools-advice from the endeavour society—
receipt for saving coals-LIST of Committee-and
of Subscribers.—Index to the Fourth Volume.

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No. CXXV.

Extract from an Account of the School at

Campsall. By the Hon. Mrs. Childers

No. CXXVI.

page 61

Extract from an Account of Measures adopted

to better the Condition of the Poor at Long

Newnton, in the County of Wilts. By

Thomas Estcourt, Esq.

No. CXXVII.

71.

Extract from an Account of a Cottager's Cul-

tivation in Shropshire. By Sir William

Pulteney, Bart.

APPENDIX.

No. II.

84

Report made to the Ladies Society for the

Education and Employment of the Female

Poor, by the Sub-Committee of the Society

No. III.

21

Copy of the Report to the Society for bettering

the Condition of the Poor, from the Select

Committee for Preventing the Spreading of

Contagious Malignant Fevers in the Metro-

polis

30.

No. IV.

Rewards of the Children at Campsall School

No. V.

page 36

Regulations proposed for Bettering the Con-

dition of the Poor in Country Parishes. By

Thomas Estcourt, Esq.

No. VI.

43

Rules and Regulations, for the Management

of the Workhouse School for Females, in

Gore-Lane, Kensington

No. VII.

56

Copy of the Regulations of the Kensington

Ladies Society, for the Care of the Schools,

and the Promotion of the Welfare of the

Female Poor

No. VIII.

61

The Dying Father's Advice to his Sons 64

N. B. We are desired to state that the papers of the
Endeavour Society on Health and Sickness, are
delivered gratis for distribution to the Governors of
the Society, and to them only.

No. CXXV.

Extract from an Account of the School at Campsall. By the Hon. Mrs. Childers.

THE school for poor children at Campsall in the county of York was established by three young ladies, the daughters of Mr. Frank; who undertook, as soon as their own education was completed, to instruct at their father's house a few poor girls in reading, plain work, and knitting; and they likewise gave them some necessary articles of clothing. They have been since induced by the solicitations both of the poor children in their neighbourhood, and of their parents, gradually to increase the number of their scholars; and it now amounts to between sixty and seventy, all of whom they teach themselves.