Three centuries of poor law administration
Subtitle: a study of legislation in Rhode Island
By: by Margaret Creech ... Introductory note by Edith Abbott.
Series: Social service monographs.; No. 24
Publisher: The University of Chicago press
Published: 1936
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Poor laws -- Rhode Island; Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- Rhode Island
Other titles: Poor law administration...in Rhode Island.
Notes: Issued also as thesis (PH. D.) University of Chicago.
Appendices: I. List of laws of Rhone Island relating to the poor.--II. List of judicial decisions under the poor law. -III. Select documents relating to the history of poor relief in the colonial period and the late eighteenth century. -IV. Thirteen case histories, 1644-1724. -V. Select documents relating to the history of poor relief in the modern period.