Betting & Gambling
by B. Seebohm Rowntree
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Rowntree, B. Seebohm (Benjamin Seebohm), 1871-1954
- Title
- Betting & Gambling: A National Evil
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare
- Subject
- Great Britain -- Social life and customs
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 59402
- Release Date
- May 1, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.E-text prepared by Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( https://archive.org ) — BETTING AND GAMBLING
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.THE ETHICS OF GAMBLING
- 5.THE EXTENT OF GAMBLING — Growth of Betting — An Account of the Present Increase — Betting — Gambling — Condition of the Country
- 6.STOCK EXCHANGE GAMBLING
- 7.GAMBLING AMONG WOMEN
- 8.CRIME AND GAMBLING
- 9.THE DELUDED SPORTSMAN
- 10.GAMBLING AND CITIZENSHIP — I — II — III
- 11.EXISTING LEGISLATION — Miscellaneous Gambling — M. Individual Gaming unconnected with Trade — N. Gambling in the Stock, Produce, and other Markets — Betting — SUGGESTED ALTERATIONS IN THE LAW — Betting — Miscellaneous Gambling — The Press and Gambling — Conclusion
- 12.THE REPRESSION OF GAMBLING
- 13.APPENDICES — I LORDS’ RECOMMENDATIONS — II LORD DAVEY’S STREET BETTING BILL 1903 — III SUMMARY OF LORDS’ COMMISSION — IV OPINIONS OF EMINENT MEN ON BETTING AND GAMBLING — V A NOTE ON PEDESTRIANISM — VI TIPSTERS AND TIPSTERS’ ADVERTISEMENTS — Turf Tipsters, Betting Agents, and System-mongers — VII BETTING STATISTICS [16] — VIII BIBLIOGRAPHY — Periodical Literature
- 14.FOOTNOTES
- 15.INDEX
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