The Poor Law Report of 1909 a Summary Explaining the Defects of the Present Sys
The Poor Law Report of 1909 a Summary Explaining the Defects of the Present Sys
Helen Dendy Bosanquet
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In any case the Commission have preferred that no method of relief should be excluded which might be capable, under skilful administration, of yielding good results. Our system of relief has suffered in the past from its narrowness and rigidity ; the 188 THE POOR LAW REPORT CHAP. narrowness of the workhouse on the one hand, and of the allowance to scale on the other. If any \ new attempt to root out pauperism is to be effective there must be a far greater elasticity and adaptability in its meth...ods. There must be a determination to seek out the causes of distress 4b>>* B MMM >HI>aiMMMnwl _ >BMVMt in each case, and a generous application of the remedy whether that remedy be discipline, or food, or medicine, or money. Another difficulty which has always been con- nected with out-relief lies in the fact that it is * ! frequently given to subsidise low wages. It is clear that in so far as this enables an employer to pay his workers a wage which is less than sufficient to main- tain them, it is a direct encouragement to sweating.
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