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
5. To what extent and under what regulations is work provided
at their own dwellings for those who have trades, but do not
procure work for themselves?
6. To what extent and under what regulations is work provided
for such persons in agriculture or on public works?
7. To what extent and under what regulations are fuel,
clothing, or money, distributed to such persons or their
families; at all times of the year, or during any particular
seasons?
8. To what extent and under what regulations are they relieved
by their children being taken into schools, and fed, clothed
and educated, or apprenticed?
9. To what extent and under what regulations, and to what
degree of relationship are the relatives of the destitute
compelled to assist them with money, food, or clothing, or by
taking charge of part of their families?
10. To what extent and under what regulations are they assisted
by loans?
IMPOTENT THROUGH AGE.
1. To what extent and under what regulations are there almshouses
or other institutions for the reception of those who, through age,
are incapable of earning their subsistence?
2. To what extent and under what regulations is relief in food,
fuel, clothing, or money afforded them at their homes?
3. To what extent, and under what regulations, are they boarded
with individuals?
4. To what extent and under what regulations are they quartered
or billeted on householders?
5. To what extent and under what regulations, and to what degree
of relationship, are their relatives compelled to assist them with
money, food, or clothing, or by taking part of their families?
SICK.
1. To what extent and under what regulations are there district
institutions for the reception of the sick?
2. To what extent and under what regulations are surgical and
medical relief afforded to the poor at their own homes?
3. To what extent and under what regulations are there
institutions for affording food, fuel, clothing, or money to
the sick?
4. To what extent and under what regulations is assistance
given to lying-in women at their homes, or in public
establishments?
5. To what extent and under what regulations are there any
other modes of affording public assistance to the sick?
CHILDREN:
_Illegitimate._
1. Upon whom does the support of illegitimate children fall;
wholly upon the mothers, or wholly upon the fathers; or is the
expense distributed between them, and in what proportion, and
under what regulations?
2. To what extent and under what regulations are the relatives
of the mothers or fathers ever compelled to assist in the
maintenance of bastards?
3. To what extent and under what regulations are illegitimate
children supported at the public expense?
_Orphans, Foundlings, or Deserted Children._
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