The first report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor
Contributors: Bernard, Thomas, Sir, 1750-1818
Publisher: Printed by W. Bulmer, and Co. for T. Becket, Bookseller, Pall-Mall
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
Subjects: Almshouses; Early works to 1800; Poor; Workhouses; Charity-schools
Other titles: 1st report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor; Bettering the conditions & comforts of the poor--1797
Notes: "Preliminary address to the public" signed: Thomas Bernard.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), N6865

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Table of contents: title: No. 1. Extract from an account of a friendly society at Castle-Eden, in the county of Durham / communicated by Rowland Burdon, Esq.; title: no. 2. Extract from an account of a village shop at Mongewell, in the county of Oxford / communicated by the Bishop of Durham; title: no. 3. Extract from an account of an incorportaed house of industry, for two united hundreds, in the county of Norfolk / by Edward Parry, Esq.; title: no. 4. Extract from an account of a spinning school at Oakham, in the county of Rutland / communicated by the Earl of Winchilsea; title: no. 5. Extract from an account of the jail and house of correction at Dorchester / communicated by William Morton Pitt, Esq.; title: no. 6. Extract from an account of a provision made upon an inclosure, for supplying the poor with fuel / communicated by Edward Parry, Esq.; title: no. 7. Extract from an account of the mode adopted as to parochial relief, in the hundred of Stoke, Bucks. / communicated by Thomas Bernard, Esq.