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.

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    of resuming' ilie respectable character ot free ami industrious labourers—in which event they would he desirous of quitting the district esta- hlishmeut, to seek for more independent employ- ment—the result toward which all our endea- vours should be directed. The present state of agriculture is particu- larly hivourahle for establishing district work- farms. The majority of farmers (not possessing capital sufficient for enabling them to ap))ropriate a due supply of labour and manure for the pro- fitable cultivation of the land) would be willing to surrender their farms, and to forego the risk of incurring an annual loss, for the certainty of re- ceiving a fixed amount of salary, as agents or managers of the estates for the united parishes. A farm, sufficient for employing all the surplus labour of the several j)arishes united, being rented, as near as convenient to the centre of the district, provided the house and out-buildings were not sufficiently spacious for accommodating the numbers admitted, additional buildings should be erected for the purpose, care being taken to keep the able-bodied and the dissolute from intermixing with the other classes of paupers. The farmer, if competent, might be engaged as the manager or conductor of the establishment, aided by such assistants as might be required, and acting under the superintendence of a committee of overseers or guardians from the several pa-