The Almshouse experience
Subtitle: collected reports.
Contributors: Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Guardians of the Poor.; Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Pauper Laws.; New York (State). Secretary's Office.
Series: Poverty, U.S.A.: the historical record; Poverty U.S.A.
Publisher: Arno Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1145
Subjects: Almshouses -- United States.; Poor -- Massachusetts.; Public welfare -- New York (State)
Notes: Reprint of Report of the committee appointed by the Board of Guardians of the Poor of the City and Districts of Philadelphia to visit the cities of Baltimore, New York, Providence, Boston, and Salem (published in 1827); Report of the Massachusetts General Court's Committee on Pauper Laws (published in 1821); and the 1824 Report of the New York Secretary of State on the relief and settlement of the poor (from the 24th annual report of the New York State Board of Charities, 1901)