Observations On the Management of the Poor in Scotland And Its Effects On the
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To carry out this principle, it might at first seem necessary, that the inmates of a workhouse should be worse clothed, lodged, and fed, than the independent labourers of the district. In fact, however, the inmates of our English work- houses are as well clothed, and generally better lodged and bet- ter fed, than the agricultural labourers and their families ; yet the irksomeness of the labour, discipline, and confinement, and the privation of certain enjoyments which the independent la- bourer... possesses, produce such disinclination to enter the work- sessment, for the support and cure of such persons as are disabled from earn- ing their subsistence by contagious diseases ; and for such separation of such persons when suffering from the disease, or when in a state of convalescence, as may be necessary to prevent the farther spread of infection. " It appears from the Report of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary for 1839, that fever is again on the increase in Glasgow, the number of fever patients ad- mitted there in the last quarter of 1839 having been 625, and the mortality among them 1 in 6.
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