A Comment On the Poor Law Proposals of the Executive Committee of the County Cou
A Comment On the Poor Law Proposals of the Executive Committee of the County Cou
Arthur Downes
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The problem of Lancashire and of the West Riding may be specially commended to them. The principle adopted was the keynote of the Metro- politan Poor Act of 1867, and it is to be hoped that no final decision as to future legislation will be arrived at without a careful examination of the more than forty years' experience of the departure then taken by Mr. Gathorne Hardy. It may not be generally known that — taking only a sub-division of their work — the Metro- politan Asylums Board have now und...er admirable care, and with infinite classification, approximately four thou- sand poor-law children (exclusive of those certified of unsound mind) ; that during the last five years, although this work has doubled, they have not raised a loan for any purpose. So satisfactory, indeed, is their present financial position that within the same period they have 6 POOR LAW PROPOSALS paid ofF nearly one million pounds of their outstanding debt, and within eleven years from now will have cleared the remaining 2^^ millions if no new obligations are put upon them.
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