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The laws concerning the poor. Wherein is treated of overseers, and their office. Of rates and contributions. Of settlements. Of families, vagrants, children, servants, &c. What shall make or amount to a Settlement by the former and latter Statutes. Stat. 14 Car. 2. c. 12. Explained. Of the 40 Days continuance; Of Notice by Statute 1 Jac. 2. and what shall amount to a Notice or not. Statute 3 & 4 W. & M. c. 11. Explained. What shall be said a Disturbance. Of Vagranes, Vagabonds; Stat. 39 El c. 4. 11 W. 3. c. 18. 1 Ann. c. 13. Explained. Of Workhouses, House of Correctio &c. and many other Matters relating to the Poor. All which lying in a confused Manner, are here setled under their proper Titles; And Illustrated with many late Resolutions of the Judges, as to Allowance or quashing several Orders of Sessions. To which are added several forms of orders of sessions, warrants, mittimus, &c.
Date: 1705- Books
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Serious considerations on the salutary design of the Act of Parliament for a regular, uniform register of the parish-poor in all the parishes within the Bills of Mortality. Pointing out the Humanity and Utility which will attend the due Execution Thereof:-The Inefficacy of past Attempts relating to such Infants-The Necessity of sending them to nurse at a proper Distance in the Country:-The pecuniary Value of a Life to the Community:-The Duty of repairing as much as possible the Loss created by War:-And the Importance of increasing our Numbers at Home and Abroad, as the truest Means of supporting our Independency as a Nation. To which are added, some thoughts on the usefulness of ventilation; the pernicious Effects of bad Air, narrow Streets, and ruined Houses; the Advantages of Cleanliness and decent Cloathing in Workhouses, and the honorable Esteem in which Parish-Officers ought to be held, when they discharge their Duty. In two letters addressed to a churchwarden.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: [1762]- Books
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The Lancet sanitary commission for investigating the state of the infirmaries of workhouses : reports of the commissioners on Metropolitan infirmaries.
Lancet Sanitary Commission.Date: [1866]- Books
The workhouse / M.A. Crowther.
Crowther, M. A. (Margaret Anne)Date: 1992- Books
On the epidemic ophthalmia which has prevailed in the workhouses and schools of the Tipperary and Athlone Unions / by William R. Wilde.
Wilde, W. R. (William Robert), 1815-1876.Date: 1851- Books
The workhouse / Norman Longmate.
Longmate, Norman, 1925-2016.Date: 1974- Books
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An abstract of the regulations and statutes of the charity-school, orphan-hospital and workhouse at Edinburgh.
Orphan Hospital and Workhouse at Edinburgh.Date: M.DCC.XXXVI. [1736]- Books
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Metropolitan workhouse infirmaries, &c. : Copy of the report of Dr. Edward Smith, Poor Law inspector and medical officer to the Poor Law Board, on the Metropolitan Workhouse infirmaries and sick wards / (Viscount Enfield).
Smith, Edward, 1818?-1874.Date: 1866- Digital Images
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Regulations for the workhouse at Dymock, Gloucs.
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Down Poorhouse Lane : the diary of a Rochdale workhouse / by John Cole.
Cole, John, 1950-Date: 1984- Books
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The training institutions for nurses, and the workhouses : an attempt to solve one of the social problems of the present day / by Edward Sieveking.
Sieveking, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1816-1904.Date: 1849- Books
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The training institutions for nurses, and the workhouses : an attempt to solve one of the social problems of the present day / by Edward Sieveking.
Date: 1849- Books
The scandal of the Andover Workhouse / [Ian Anstruther].
Anstruther, Ian.Date: 1973- Books
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On the want of remedial treatment, for the poor of unsound mind in England : and on the proposal to confine them in wards of workhouses.
Heywood, Thomas.Date: 1841- Digital Images
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The old men's ward in a Workhouse. This print is to illustrate a story but could have been drawn from life.
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Authorization of payment of medical bills; Dymock workhouse.
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The St. Marylebone Workhouse and Institution, 1730-1965 / by Alan R. Neate.
Neate, Alan R.Date: [1967]- Books
Anno regni Gulielmi III ... septimo & octavo. [An Act for erecting of hospitals and workhouses within the city of Bristoll, for the better employing and maintaining the poor thereof].
Great BritainDate: 1696- Books
Ealing and the poor : the Poor Law, the workhouses and poor relief in the parish of St. Mary Ealing, from 1722 to 1800 / [R.H. Lightning].
Lightning, R. H.Date: 1966- Books
The life and death of Hannah Wiltshire : a case study of Bedminster Union Workhouse and Victorian social attitudes on epilepsy / by Rosemary L. Caldicott.
Caldicott, Rosemary L.Date: 2016- Books
Workhouse children / Frank Crompton.
Crompton, Frank (Local historian)Date: [1997]- Books
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Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor. Hints for those who may be desirous of introducing the manufacture of split straw in country towns, villages, schools, workhouses, &c.
Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (Great Britain).Date: 1800?]- Books
The Coventry Workhouse death registers 1945-1943 / transcribed by Beverley Wishart.
Wishart, Beverley.Date: 1997- Books
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Inquiry into the treatment, condition and mortality of infant children in the workhouse of the North Dublin Union.
Nicholls, George, Sir, 1781-1865.Date: 1842- Books
Charity begins at home : Edmonton Workhouse Committee 1732-37 / by David Avery.
Avery, David.Date: 1967