Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1862 Excerpt: ... it would provide so great an alleviation of distress of this kind. The grievous injury which such a crisis, and poor rates suddenly raised to twice or thrice their ordinary amount, inflict on owners of property, is in some cases only less than is endured by the poor themselves. Commercial and manufacturing towns would, therefore, by the adoption of the proposed plan, be protected against any such severe temporary pressure of the burden of pauperism as took place in Norfolk and Nottingham, at Leeds and Manchester, in 1841-2, at Sheffield and Birmingham in 1848, and at Liverpool during the recent famine in Ireland, (and at present in the cotton manufacturing districts). Two-thirds of the whole charge of such burden, and violent aggravations of that burden, would always be substantially removed by being shared by the country at large with the place in which they occur. At the same time, the contribution by the parish in which such pauperism receives its relief of one-third of the actual outlay, will preserve a sufficient local interest in the due administration of the relief fund to secure to the country the indispensable services of the ratepayers themselves in attending by their own locally elected officers and guardians to the administration of their own affairs. Much inquiry and consideration induced me to think that a less interest than the payment by such parish of one-third of its own actual expenditure, would be sufficient to keep up in proper activity, the attention of parish guardians or union boards, and of other parish officers and ratepayers, to the administration of the Poor Law." "The proposals which I have made are consistent with the truest principles of English constitutional freedom, and by their adoption the personal liberty of the body of ...
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