The general orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, the Poor Law Board, and the Local Government Board relating to the poor law : with explanatory notes elucidating the orders, tables of statutes, cases and index / by William Cunningham Glen and by the editor of the present edition.

  • Glen, W. Cunningham (William Cunningham), 1814-1892.
Date:
1898
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Credit: The general orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, the Poor Law Board, and the Local Government Board relating to the poor law : with explanatory notes elucidating the orders, tables of statutes, cases and index / by William Cunningham Glen and by the editor of the present edition. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDITOR’S NOTE TO THE ELEVENTH EDITION OF THE POOR LAW ORDERS. Sixce the last edition of this work was published the mode in which the election of Guardians of the Poor is conducted has been entirely- altered, owing to the passing of the Local Government Act, 1894. Fresh Orders relating to the election of Guardians, both within and without the Metropolis, were consequently issued by the Local Government Board, which until the present year were temporary. Such Orders dealt merely with the elections of Guardians in the year in which they were issued ; and it was not until the com- mencement of the present year that permanent Orders were issued, which until altered will regulate all future elections of Guardians. A revision of the work edited by my late father and myself was therefore necessary in order to render it efficient, and I have, in the present edition, substituted the Orders by which elections of Guardians are now regulated for those contained in the previous edition. At the same time I have added to the collection of Orders such other General Orders of the Local Government Board as have been issued by that Board since the year 1887. Such Orders have been noted up, and the notes to those Orders which were contained in the previous edition have been carefully revised. Owing to my father’s death I have been left without that advice and direction which his long and intimate association with the Local Government Board, and with all matters connected with the Poor Law, rendered so valuable. But I trust that the work will nevertheless continue to be appreciated by Boards of Guardians and their officers, for whose use it is specially designed. The work contains the whole of the General Poor Law Orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, the Poor Law Board, and the Local Government Board, which have been issued down to the