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 ReportSenior, Nassau William
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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
Senior, Nassau William
Poor -- Europe; Poor -- United States; Working class
10. In the distribution of clothing, which will be made once a
year, each individual will only be clothed once in two years.
11. When the establishment is enabled to give woollen clothing,
it will only be to such as are above 60 years, or to children
under seven years, and those the most destitute; this relief
once in two years.
12. If any one who receives bread and clothing from the bureau
sells or pawns the same, he shall be struck off.
13. All clothes given by the establishment shall be marked, so
that they may be known.
14. Assistance to lying-in women, new-born children, and sick,
will be rendered at their houses; those who are not on the
lists cannot be assisted until their case is examined; money
will not be given to women in labour but when absolutely
necessary; soup is distributed on Mondays and Wednesdays, from
two to three o’clock.
15. There is attached to the establishment a doctor, at 400
fr. (16_l._), and two assistants, at 500 fr. (20_l._) each per
year, who attend such as are named by the bureau; and also
women in extraordinary cases of labour.
16. A midwife is attached, at 200 fr. (8_l._) a year, who
attends all women designated by the bureau.
17. In hard weather, if it should be thought expedient to make
a subscription, the poor who are upon the second list (article
2) will be relieved from it.
ROUEN.
_Rouen Depôt of Mendicity._
REGULATIONS.
SECTION 1.--_Duty of the Porter of the Outside Gates._
ART. 1st. All the gates shall be kept constantly shut.
3. The porter shall not allow any one to enter or go out during
the day without a permission or passport from the Governor.
6. The porters and other officers are expressly forbidden, on
pain of dismissal, to allow the inmates to send any message
or commission, or have any correspondence whatever beyond the
walls of the establishment. Letters to and from them must be
laid before the governor before they are forwarded.
SECTION 2.--_In-doors Porter._
ART. 3. To prevent all communication between the mendicants
of different sexes and ages, the porter is ordered to keep
locked the doors of the dormitories, the work-shops, the courts
for recreation, and other places to which the inmates have
access, as soon as they have quitted them, in pursuance of the
regulations of the place.
4. It is the duty of the porter and other officers and servants
to see that the inmates are carefully kept to the apartments
provided for them respectively. The porter must go the rounds
from time to time to ascertain this.
SECTION 3.--_Dormitories._
ART. 1. The bell is to announce the hour of rising from the 1st
of March to the 30th of September at 4 o’clock in the morning,
and from the 1st Oct. to the 28th Feb. at 6. The inspectors
must take care that the inmates immediately rise.
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