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Excerpt from Syllabus of a Course of Classes on the Social and Political History of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1
Breakdown of the Elizabethan system and growth of Pauperism. In 1740 - 50 amount spent on Poor Relief aver aged {73o,000. From 1815 - 20 and from 18304 it averaged (but note the increase in population). Porter (progress of the Nation) estimates that between 1801 and 1834 the expenditure rose in the ratio of 4 to 7. - Causes, the rise in prices, commercial depression, and faulty administration.
The Poor Law Commissioners' Report Its main ideas those of Bentham, Senior, and Chadwick. Central Con trol; wider administrative areas ('aggregate in order to the condition of the dependent to be less 'eligible' than that of the independent: restrictions on the mobility of labour to be removed. Poor Law Reform Act (became law August 14, Its chief provisions (i) the establishment of a Central Board of three Commissioners for five years (re appointed annually after 1839 to 1847) with control over the whole administration of relief, (ii) local administration placed in the hands of elected Board of Guardians, (iii) amalgamation of Parishes into Unions, (iv) Commissioners empowered to order erection of workhouses and regulate by order relief given to the able-bodied ('the Workhouse (v) Amendment of Settlement laws.
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