The vision of an overseer, now in office, revealing the fatal errors of the poor laws, and the evil effects they have entailed on the community
Series: Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890; Making of the Modern World, Part IV: 1800-1890
Publisher: Pelham Richardson
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 98
Subjects: Poor laws
Notes: "The treatment of the poor according to the Mosaic Law, and afterwards enforced by the admonition of our saviour to the rulers of the people of Jerusalem, the poor in England during the Catholic era, the rise and origin of the poor laws, and the arbitrary means resorted to in raising funds for the support of the poor, also the wasteful expenditure occasioned by parochial management, with the creation of paupers by the unjustifiable law of settlement, and the total incapacity of guardian-boards to have any control over their regulation. Dedicated to all the parishes in England."

Reproduction of the original from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, Senate House Library, University of London.

Shelfmark number: [G.L.] D.851.