The pauper farming system. A letter to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell ... on the condition of the pauper children of St. James, Westminster; as demonstrating the necessity of abolishing the farming system / by T.J. Pettigrew.

  • Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, 1791-1865
Date:
1836
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Credit: The pauper farming system. A letter to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell ... on the condition of the pauper children of St. James, Westminster; as demonstrating the necessity of abolishing the farming system / by T.J. Pettigrew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PAUPER FARMING SYSTEM. A LETTER TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, His Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, ON THE CONDITION OF THE PAUPER CHILDREN OF iameg, UBrttmftuftrr; AS DEMONSTRATING THE NECESSITY OF ABOLISHING THE FARMING SYSTEM. BY T. J. PETTIGREW, F.R.S. F.S.A. F.L.S. Surgeon to the Charing Cross Hospital, the Asylum for Female Orphans, Sfc. Sfe. Sj-c. “ The vigour sinks, the habit melts away; The cheerful, pure, and animated bloom Dies from the face ; with squalid atrophy Devour'd, in sallow melancholy clad.” Armstrong. LONDON: T. ROOD, 2, GREAT NEWPORT STREET. 1836.