Report for the directors of the Town's Hospital of Glasgow on the management of the city poor, the suppression of mendicity, and the principles of the plan for the new hospital / [by James Ewing].

  • Ewing, James, Lord Provost of Glasgow.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Report for the directors of the Town's Hospital of Glasgow on the management of the city poor, the suppression of mendicity, and the principles of the plan for the new hospital / [by James Ewing]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vi • 1 page Consequent origin of charity work-houses, 65 Supposed benefits of this mode of relief, ~ ib. Establishment of Town's Hospital or work-house in Glasgow 66 Impolicy of receptacles for able paupers, viz. Failure in the object of promoting industry, ~ 69 Expense, from the insignificance of work performed, 70 Alienation from domestic attachments, ~ ~ 71 Risk of vice and infection, i, JL 73 Tendency to increase of pauperism, ~ « ~ ib. Probable advantages of an Hospital, on a restricted scale, viz. For the desolate, aged, and impotent, « ~ 77 For orphan and deserted children, ~ ~ ib. For lunatic and fatuous paupers, destitute of other places of reception, „ „ „ „ 78 Recommendation that the New Hospital shall be strictly confined to these classes, „ ~ ~ ~ 79 Proposed Annexations to the Hospital. House of Industry: Principle of the measure to suppress mendicity, and ameliorate the profligate, 81 Aversion of beggars to work, ~ ~ 82 Distinction in the description of beggars, ~ 83 Mode adopted at Bath, 1 ib. Mode adopted at Edinburgh, ~ ~ ~ 84 Principle of these modes —labour, ~ „ ~ 86 Benefit of work-houses for venial crimes, ~ 87 School of Industry: Origin of the proposal, ~ ~ ~ 88 Advantage of instruction, combined with work, to poor children, ~ ~ 89 Mode adopted at Hamburgh, ~ ~ „ 91 Mode adopted at Kendal, ~ 92 Mode adopted at Edinburgh, 93 Evils of idleness among the youth at present, 94 Expediency of a work-house, as a mild penitentiary without infamy, for juvenile delinquents, ~ 96 Recommendation of such institutions by different Commit- tees of the House of Commons, ~ 98 Answer to objection on the ground of political economy, 100 Practical Result. Classes for whom accommodation is recommended, ~ 102 Complete separation necessary, ~ ~ ~ ~ ib. Classified list of present inmates in the Hospital, ~ 103 Arrangements for the following objects, viz. I. Adult paupers: Division according to partial ability, ~ ~ 105