Report of a Committee for Conducting an Inquiry into the State of the Sick Poor, Warwick, September 15, 1827.

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1827
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Credit: Report of a Committee for Conducting an Inquiry into the State of the Sick Poor, Warwick, September 15, 1827. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pable of exertion, and would experience the comfort of being^ reliered out of a fund raised as a provision against sickness, in part out of their own earnings; and those too poor to effect this, including all the most unfortunate and destitute part of society, would be made sure, at least, of receiving humane attention, when the evils of sickness were added to the inconveniences of poverty. To both these classes of people, when once a system, comprising all these benefits, shall have been established throughout England, better prospects will be held out; and in both, better feelings will be generated. The contributions made by the rich, being voluntary, will be far more cheerfully paid than in the form of Poor’s Rates; and the benefits conferred upon the poor will be far more gratefully re- ceived than anjr allowance from the Parish. And as the blessing of education is daily making the working classes better able to appreciate the good effects of industrious and frugal habits, even the poorest among them may be expected gradually to confonn to plans, demanding very trifling temporary sacrifices from them, and offering them no less a recompense than the substitution of comfort and independence, for a life of hopeless labour and an old age of unavoidable pauperisml The Committee, relying on the correctness of the statements elicited during the Inquiry which they now conclude, and on the justness of the views founded thereupon; can, of course, but determine to spare no