Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1806 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter X. Summary View of collateral Remedies Susceptible of immediate Adoption, without interfering with the existing Pauper System.--First, The Establishment of a Board of general and internal Police.--Second, An improved System of Friertdty Societies.--Third, A Board of Education for the Superintendence of the Children of the Poor, under a national System.--Fourth, An improved System respecting Apprentices. Explanatory Observations under each Head.--General Reflections on the Utility of the Measures suggested.--The extraordinary alra in which we Hve, Urged as an additional Reason for their Adoption. --Fifth, General Observations on the Law of Settlements, as reviewed in the Seventh Chapter.--The Origin of the Evil arose from a national System being subject to local Interference and parochial Practice.--The Evil of this System, in reducing the Value of real Estates in different Parishes and Counties, exemplified by a general View of the Proportion of Paupers, extending from one fifteenth to one fourth Part of the Population, in different Districts; also of the Amount of the Assessments, the average Rates, nd the Expense of relieving Paupers in and out of Workhouses in each County.--General Reflections arising out of these Facts.--Sixth, Brief Observations on the general Review of the System of Workhouses, as examined in the Eighth Chapter. The Difficulties opposed to those Establishments from the Fluctuations generated by the Law of Settlements.--Originally ill-concerted.--Unnecessary in the Country, although indispensable in large Communities.--Explanatory Observations on the Review of the Manners and Habits of the labouring People, as considered in the Ninth Chapter.--A comparative View, comprising the Population, Offenders, ...
