Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the condition of the labouring classes, in a considerable proportion of America and Europe

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Author

Senior, Nassau William, 1790-1864

Title

Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report

Credits

Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Poor -- Europe

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 53316

Release Date

October 18, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.ADVERTISEMENT.
3. 3.CONTENTS — STATEMENT OF THE PROVISION FOR THE POOR, AND THE CONDITION OF THE LABOURING CLASSES, IN A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF AMERICA AND EUROPE.
4. 4.QUESTIONS. — Vagrants. — Destitute Able-bodied. — Impotent Through Age. — Sick. — Children : — Illegitimate. — Orphans, Foundlings, or Deserted Children. — Cripples, Deaf and Dumb, and Blind. — Idiots and Lunatics. — Effects of the foregoing Institutions.
5. 5.AMERICA.
6. 6.EUROPE. — NORWAY. — SWEDEN. — RUSSIA. — DENMARK. — MECKLENBURG. — PRUSSIA. — Destitute Able-bodied. — Impotent through Age. — Sick. — Effects of the foregoing Institutions. — SAXONY. — WURTEMBERG. — Of the Bailiwick Corporations. — Of the Duty of the State. — Amount of Relief to the Poor. — Support and Employment of the Adult Poor. — BAVARIA. — CANTON DE BERNE.
7. 7.Causes favourable to the working of the above institutions. — HANSEATIC TOWNS. — Hamburgh. — Bremen. — Lubeck. — FRANKFORT ON THE MAIN. — HOLLAND. — OBSERVATIONS. — Poor Colonies. — BELGIUM AND FRANCE. — French Poor Laws. — BELGIUM. — Monts-de-Piété. — Mendicity. — Foundlings. — Antwerp. — Ostend. — Gaesbeck. (page 1.) — Poor Colonies. — FRANCE. — Havre. — Rouen. — Britany. — LOIRE INFERIEURE. — GIRONDE. — BASSES PYRENÉES. — BOUCHES DU RHONE. — SARDINIAN STATES. — Piedmont . — GENOA. — SAVOY. — VENICE. — PORTUGAL AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. — PORTUGAL. — The Azores. — Canary Islands. — GREECE. — Vagrants. — Impotent through Age, and Sick. — Children. — EUROPEAN TURKEY.
8. 8.ABSENCE OF SURPLUS POPULATION.
9. 9.Condition of the labouring classes. — Agricultural wages in England. — Subsistence of agricultural labourers in England.
10. 10.Wages and subsistence of foreign labourers. — DIGEST OF FOREIGN ANSWERS — DIGEST OF ANSWERS.
11. 11.Comparison between the state of the English and Foreign Labouring Classes.

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