Suggestions for restoring the moral character and the industrious habits of the poor : also for establishing district work-farms in place of parish work-houses, and for reducing the poor-rates / by George Pinckard.

  • Pinckard, George, 1768-1835.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Suggestions for restoring the moral character and the industrious habits of the poor : also for establishing district work-farms in place of parish work-houses, and for reducing the poor-rates / by George Pinckard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    object, by letting to each labourer, at a niotlerate rent, a small piece of land, to serve as a garden. But care should be taken not to allot to the cottages a portion of ground exceeding one- sixth part of an acre, lest the occupier should be induced to believe, like the Irish cottier, that he could provide for his family without the earnings of his daily labour. He should not look to the garden as his support:—it should be only a spot of recreation, the produce of which might in- crease the labourer’s comforts, without interrupt- ing his useful round of toil. If such-like dwellings were provided for the poor, in every village, and upon every estate, the industrious labourer, possessing his independ- ent home, would occupy his leisure hours, assist- ed by his wife and family, in the cultivation of his valued little plot — the produce of which, planted and gathered by his own hand, would improve his pottage, and tidd sweetness to his frugal meal; and if in addition, he were to re- ceive due encouragement from his more affluent neighbours, especially from his employer and the clergy, his moral and religious character would be improved' -his sabbath duties would be regularly observed—his habits would be industrious, his manner and conduct respectful, and he would pass his time in peace and contentment, with