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Excerpt from On the Best Means of Dealing With Exceptional Distress: The Report of a Special Committee of the Charity Organisation Society, November 1886
The reference to your Committee was 'to report upon the best means of The Reference. Dealing with exceptional distress, should it occur in a future year.' In the past winter much new experience should have been gained on this subject, and it was thought well to try and gather it together, to put it in a perma nent form, and to draw conclusions on many questions of principle and detail, on which there had been differences of Opinion and varieties in practice. The Committee have had before them documents showing what was done at other periods of exceptional distress they have received letters, notes, and reports from many quarters; and they have examined 22 wit nesses, whose evidence is appended to this Report. Information has been collected from persons in all classes of society, and, it is believed, upon most of the points of importance in regard to exceptional distress so far as it concerns the metropolis. Some of the readers of this Report, and students of charitable and social questions, will, the Committee hope, refer to the evidence itself, of which a careful index has been made. They will find that the situation is extremely grave that there are permanent causes of distress which it is impossible for philanthropy to cope with, or even in any sufficient degree to palliate by schemes of direct relief; and that those causes suggest other remedies, beyond the scope of this Report, in regard to which the public and individuals must make their decision, if much of what is now termed exceptional distress is not to assume a chronic form. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
