An Inquiry Into the Workhouse System And the Law of Maintenance in Agricultural
An Inquiry Into the Workhouse System And the Law of Maintenance in Agricultural
C D Charles David Brereton
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The hundred of Carlford contains 5966 souls, and the poor rate in 1821 was 7256. 7s. Or 1. 4s. Gel. Per head. The poor rate of England and Wales is about 1 Is. Per head, and the poor rate of the two cele- brated hundreds of Colnies and Carlford, is more than double that rate; and as to trade and manu- facture there appears to be only one family or person employed in this way of the 242 persons of all sorts, who are congregated in the house of industry. Of the morals of the place I know no- thin...g, but 1 have no doubt they perfectly agree \\itli the improvidence and folly of the system. It may now be important to detail the original 43 scheme of Mr. Gilbert, proposed in the following year, 1764, to his Majesty, the Parliament, the Sheriffs and Gentlemen of England. The princi- ples of his scheme were generally adopted by many of the incorporated houses of industry which were established about this time in agricultural districts. An enumeration of the provisions of those local acts, though tedious, might be impor- tant, but I shall here confine my observations to Mr.
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