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Page v
... wage earners who are the real wealth - creators of the community . They are well , and should , so far as material charity is concerned , be left alone . Bad charity tends to tempt them into the indigent class : good charity , if they ...
... wage earners who are the real wealth - creators of the community . They are well , and should , so far as material charity is concerned , be left alone . Bad charity tends to tempt them into the indigent class : good charity , if they ...
Page vi
... wages , by which the farmer could throw upon the mass of ratepayers part of the wage which otherwise he would have had to pay himself . It should be added , that out of intermittent labour spring our gravest woes . It produces in the ...
... wages , by which the farmer could throw upon the mass of ratepayers part of the wage which otherwise he would have had to pay himself . It should be added , that out of intermittent labour spring our gravest woes . It produces in the ...
Page xxviii
... wages or hire or remuneration by any person ; ( 3 ) to set every such pauper to work ; ( 4 ) to report to the Local Government Board within fourteen days from the date when this Order comes into force , and from time to time afterwards ...
... wages or hire or remuneration by any person ; ( 3 ) to set every such pauper to work ; ( 4 ) to report to the Local Government Board within fourteen days from the date when this Order comes into force , and from time to time afterwards ...
Page xxix
... wages - tending to keep wages down ; that it is no safeguard against starvation , for it is seldom enough to maintain the recipient , and , by adding to the chances of aid from Arguments for and against out- door relief . The Work ...
... wages - tending to keep wages down ; that it is no safeguard against starvation , for it is seldom enough to maintain the recipient , and , by adding to the chances of aid from Arguments for and against out- door relief . The Work ...
Page xxxii
... wages due , or from time to time due to the recipient should not be paid over in whole or in part to the Guardians ; and the justice can , if he think fit , taking into consideration the circumstances of such poor person and his family ...
... wages due , or from time to time due to the recipient should not be paid over in whole or in part to the Guardians ; and the justice can , if he think fit , taking into consideration the circumstances of such poor person and his family ...
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25 Vict 40 Vict able-bodied age of 16 almoner application appointed assistance Asylums Board attend authority blind Board of Guardians bye-laws casual certificate chargeable Charity Organisation Society child classes Commissioners Committee County Council Court deserted destitute distress District Boards duties Dwellings election emigration employment endowments factory fund girls give Government Board hospital husband indoor relief industrial schools inquiry inspectors institutions justice labour liable licensed loan Local Government Board London County London County Council magistrate maintenance medical officer ment Metropolis Metropolitan Metropolitan Asylums Board Metropolitan Board months offence out-relief outdoor relief owner parent parish pauper lunatics payment pension person Poor Law Poor Law schools punishment ratepayers received reformatory regard registered house regulations relieving officer removal residence sanitary School Board sent settlement sickness tion trustees Union vaccination Vestry vote wages ward widow wife workhouse
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Page lxxxvi - workshop " means any premises, room or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to any process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article...
Page clxxvi - working class " includes mechanics, artisans, labourers, and others working for wages ; hawkers, costermongers, persons not working for wages, but working at some trade or handicraft without employing others, except members of their own family, and persons other than domestic servants whose income in any case does not exceed an average of thirty shillings a week, and the families of any of such persons who may be residing with them.
Page lxxvii - ... may enter (if need be by force) any house, building, or other place specified in the warrant, and may remove the child therefrom.
Page xlv - ... every person wandering abroad and endeavouring by the exposure of wounds or deformities to obtain or gather alms; every person going about as a gatherer or collector of alms, or endeavouring to procure charitable contributions of any nature or kind, under any false or fraudulent pretence...
Page cxxiii - Metropolis (which is defined by section 100 to be the City of London and the parishes and places mentioned in Schedules A, B, and C, to the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, as amended by subsequent Acts...
Page xlv - ... every person wandering abroad, or placing himself or herself in any public place, street, highway, court, or passage, to beg or gather alms, or causing or procuring or encouraging any child or children so to do, shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person...
Page cxxxvi - For fixing and from time to time varying the number of persons who may occupy a house or part of a house which is let in lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family...
Page lxxxvi - To examine either alone or in the presence of any other person, as he thinks fit, with respect to matters under this Act, every person whom he finds in a factory or workshop...
Page lxxxv - ... wherein, or within the close or curtilage or precincts of which, steam, water, or other mechanical power is used in aid of the manufacturing process carried on there.
Page xcv - That is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or proper guardianship, or visible means of subsistence...