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The miseries of the poor are a national sin, shame, and charge: but by making them happy, we shall remove that guilt, raise the glory, and double the wealth and strength of Great Britain ; and pay old debts without new taxes. By the Judicious Employment of the Poor (under One New General Law) and Present Taxes (without any Land-Tax) we may Justly and Gradually Discharge (within Twenty Years) All our National Debts: And whilst those Debts and Taxes are thus reducing, we shall farther receive (from the Regular Management of the Poor) much greater Benefits than the Payment of those Fifty Millions. A Due Care of the Poor is an Act of Great Piety towards Almighty God, an Act of the Greatest Humanity among Men, and of great Civil Prudence and Political Wisdom in relation to the State. - As things now are, our Populousness (which might be made the Greatest Blessing a Kingdom can have) becomes a Burden to the Nation; by breeding up whole Races, families, and Generations, in a mere Trade of Idleness, Thieving, and Beggin, and a barbarous kind of Life: which must in time prodigiously increase, and over-run the whole Face of the Kingdom, and Eat Out the very Heart thereof. Lord Chief Justice Hale, in ... upon employing the Poor.
Braddon, Laurence, -1724.Date: M.DCC.XVII. [1717]- Books
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A plan for the establishment of charity-houses for exposed or deserted women and girls, and for penitent prostitutes. Observations concerning the Foundling-Hospital, shewing the ill consequences of giving public support thereto. Considerations relating to the poor and th poor's-laws of England; Wherein the great Increases of Unemployed Poor, and of Thieves and Prostitutes, are shewn to be immediately owing to the Severity, as well as the Defects of our Poor's - Laws; and to be primarily caused by the Monopolizing of Farms, and the Indosure of Common Lands; which have likewise decreased the Number of People, and brought our Woollen Manufacturies into a precarious State, as is made appear by Extracts from several Laws and other Authorities. Also, a New System of Policy, Most humbly proposed, for Relieving, Employing, and Ordering the Poor of England; Whereby a great Saving may be made in the Charge of Maintaining Them; the Poor's - Rates be kept nearly Equal in all Parishes, as in Equity they ought to be; and every Pretence for wandering about Begging, be taken away. To which are annexed, Forms of the principal Accounts necessary to be kept for those Purposes, whereby such Persons as are not conversant in Accounting will easily be able to comprehend all that is here proposed on that Head. By J. Massie.
Massie, J. (Joseph), -1784.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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An humble proposal for relieving, reforming and employing the poor. And herein by vertue of one new general law, instead of near forty statates, relating to the presmises. We may comfortably maintain all th' impotent poor, judiciously employ all the capable poor, probably reform the profligate poor; and gradually sink, and in time, totally discharge all our poor-rates, - And we may further receive, from that new-law, all other political benefits, which populousness, arts, and industry, can possibly produce.
Braddon, Laurence, -1724.Date: 1720- Books
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[Sanitary inquiry : - England. : Local reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of England, in consequence of an inquiry directed to be made by the Poor Law Commissioners. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842].
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: [1842]- Books
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Sanitary inquiry : - England. : Local reports on the sanitary condition of the labouring population of England, in consequence of an inquiry directed to be made by the Poor Law Commissioners. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, July, 1842.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1842- Books
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Steel's original and correct list of the Royal Navy hired armed-vessels, gun-boats, &c. packets, excise and revenue cutters, &c. With their commanders and stations. To which are Added the Following Lasts, &c. Admirals --- Page 18 Admirals & their Secretaries Pay 19 Admirals Pensions --- 19 Admirals Stations and Secretaries 19 Admiralty, Navy, and other Public Offices ---- 52 Advertisements to Correspondents 17 Agent Victualiers --- 51 Appointment of Officers 2 British Ships lost, taken, &c. - 44 Captains' Pay & Half-Pay - 21 Commanders --- 21 & 22 Compand who have lop their Lives 47 Comparative Rank of Others - 2 Contractions explained 2 Dutch Ships taken, &c. - 42 Establishment of Rates and Men - 2 Establishment of Ships in Ordinary 2 Excise and Revenue Cutters - 50 French Ships taken, &c. - 37 Governors of Royal Hospitals - 51 Gun and Fire Vessels --- 16 Hired Armed Vessels, Cutt. & Lug. 15 Impress Service --- 51 Lieutenants 23 to 28 Lieuts. Pay. Half-Pay, and Pensions 29 Marine Forces 34 to 36 Master Builders at the different Yards 51 Masiers ---- 29 & 30 Masters Pay, Half-Pay, Superannuations, and Pensions 30 Naval Fencibles --- 17 Navy-Agents ---- 2 Navy-List, with the Pursers 3 to 14 Packets ---- 33 Pentioned Captains --- 19 Phyticians and Surgeons - 31 & 32 Poor Knights of Windsor 47 Post Captains ---- 20 & 21 Prize and Head-Money payable 48 & 49 Pursers Superrannuation - 2 Retired Lieutenants 23 Signal Towers --- 30 Spanish Ships taken, &c. - 43 Statement of the British Nav.Force 17 Superannuated Admirals & Captains 19 Surgeons Pay-Half-Pay, & Bounty 32 Total of all Captures - 17 Widows Annual Pensions 2 Corrected to August, 1800, And to be continued Monthly. Price Sixpence.
Great Britain. Royal Navy.Date: [1800]- Books
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An account of the origin and progress of the Society for the Promotion of Industry, in the Hundreds of Ongar and Harlow, and the Half Hundred of Waltham, in the County of Essex.
Society for the Promotion of Industry in the Hundreds of Ongar and Harlow.Date: 1797- Books
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The dwelling house / by George Vivian Poore.
Poore, George Vivian, 1843-1904.Date: 1898- Books
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Annual address : on the shortcoming of some modern sanitary methods / delivered by George Vivian Poore.
Poore, George Vivian, 1843-1904.Date: [1887]- Books
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A Display of uncontroverted truths, and an alarm to unsound professors. By - -, a poor labourer in the Lord's Vineyard.
Date: M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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Sanatory progress:- being the fifth report of the National Philanthropic Association ... for the promotion of social and salutiferous improvements, street cleanliness; and the employment of the poor : so that able-bodied men may be prevented from burthening the parish rates, and preserved independent of workhouse alms and degradation.
National Philanthropic Association (Great Britain)Date: 1850- Books
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An exhortation to that greatest of charities, rescuing the infant poor from sin, and educating them in the principles of virtue and religion. A sermon preached in the Parish-Church of Towcester, and Diocese of Peterborough, on Sunday, the first of October, 1786, for the benefit of the Sunday school established in that place. By the Rev. William Peters, of Exeter-College, Oxford, rector of Litchborough, in Northamptonshire, chaplain to the Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and R.A.
Peters, William, active 1786.Date: [1786]- Books
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A supplementary report on the results of a spiecal (sic) inquiry into the practice of interment in towns made at the request of Her Majestys' Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, / by Edwin Chadwick.
Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners.Date: 1843- Pictures
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The battle of Alexandria: Sir Ralph Abercromby (Abercrombie) is wounded in the thigh. Mezzotint by P. Dawe, 180-, after R. Pollard.
Pollard, Robert, 1755-1838.Date: 1800-1809Reference: 547646i- Books
Improving patient flow : how two trusts focused on flow to improve the quality of care and use available capacity effectively : learning report.
Garrett, SarahDate: 2013- Books
The history of the kings of England and the modern history of William of Malmesbury / Translated from the Latin by the Rev. John Sharpe.
William, of Malmesbury, approximately 1090-1143.Date: 1815- Pictures
Nutrition and diet for children. Lithographs, 1944.
Date: [1944]Reference: 680211i- Pictures
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A generous physician refusing money for services rendered from a poor family. Mezzotint.
Reference: 21598i- Books
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The Universal officer of justice. Containing, the general power and authority by law, of the several officers and ministers following, viz. 1. Of justices of peace. 2. Clerks of the peace. 3. Of custos rotulorum. 4. Of commissioners of hackney-coaches. 5. - - of hawkers and pedlars. 6. - - of the wine licence, &c. 7. Of mayors and bailiffs of towns. 8. Of clerks of markets and tool-takers. 9. Os sheriffs of counties 10. Of under-sheriffs, and their bailiffs, &c. 11. Of coroners. 12. Of constables &c. 13. Of church-wardens and sidesmen. 14. Of vestry-men. 15. Of overseers of the poor. 16. And surveyors of the highways. The whole being collected from all the books our common and statute laws written upon the subjects and render'd generally useful to all sorts of people.
Date: 1731- Books
Tenants : the people on the frontline of Britain's housing emergency / Vicky Spratt.
Spratt, VickyDate: 2022- Pictures
A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
Date: 8 April 1871Reference: 17866i- Videos
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The evolution of community medicine. Part 1, The rise of the public health movement.
Date: 1984- Pictures
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Wellington and Peel in the roles of the body-snatchers Burke and Hare suffocating Mrs Docherty for sale to Dr. Knox; representing the extinguishing by Wellington and Peel of the Constitution of 1688 by Catholic Emancipation. Coloured etching after W. Heath, 1829.
Heath, William, 1795-1840.Date: March 1829Reference: 12222i- Books
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The cost of inequality : putting a price on health / Les Mayhew.
Mayhew, LesDate: [2021]- Books
Becoming myself : a psychiatrist's memoir / Irvin D. Yalom.
Yalom, Irvin D., 1931-Date: 2017