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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    rishes united, tlie whole being subject to the control und general regulations of the Board of Commissioners. It should be a rule of the institution that all the paupers, not prevented by sickness or in- firmity, should attend divine service at the nearest places of public worship, according to their respective creeds, on the Sabbath day; or a chaplain should be appointed to officiate at the establishment every Sunday, and to assist, on all occasions, in leading the paupers to the fulfilment of their moral and religious duties. The principal articles cultivated, at the dis- trict farm, should be corn, flax, and potatoes* The potatoes being eaten upon the spot where grown, a great saving would be gained by their not requiring to be carted away, as at present, in order to be consumed at a distance from the fields which produce them. The flax might be dressed, spun, and woven at the establish- ment, and manufactured into clothing for the use of the aged and infirm pauper-residents. The corn would, in most part, remain to be sold for payment of the rent and expenses, and for the reduction of the poor-rates. In the event of the number of paupers being, at any time, greater than could be occupied, by spade-labour, in the regular cultivation of the farm, employment might be found, for the sur- plus portiori, by filling up pits, digging down
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