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applicants assistance Association Balance Bart Benevolent Board of Guardians Buckingham Street Central Office charitable agencies Charity Organisation Society Chelsea Church Clothing Club co-operation Contributions Convalescent Home Council COUTTS & Co Dispensary District Committees District Visiting Society Ditto Donations DUKE EARL Emigration employment Expenditure Fund George's Grants Hampstead Hill Hospital House in-patient inquiry Institution investigation labour Lady letter for St Loans London LORD LORD GEORGE HAMILTON M.P. Right Marylebone Road Medical Messrs Mile End Miss mittee objects obtained ORGANISING CHARITABLE RELIEF out-patient Paddington paid Pancras parish Park pension Poor Law private persons Provident Receipts received RELIEF AND REPRESSING Relief of Distress Representative REPRESSING MENDICITY RUTHERFORD ALCOCK School Board Secretary sent September 30 Sick Society for Organising Society for Relief Special Square Strand Subscriptions Terrace tion Total number Treasurer Upper Clapton W. E. FORSTER W. E. GLADSTONE week Westbourne Westminster widow wife workhouse
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Page 5 - Be merciful after thy power. If thou hast much, give plenteously; if thou hast little, do thy diligence gladly to give of that little: for so gatherest thou thyself a good reward in the day of necessity.
Page 8 - The fundamental principle with respect to the legal relief of the poor is that the condition of the pauper ought to be on the whole less eligible than that of the independent labourer.
Page 1 - District, and by making the District Committees representative of local charities and a centre of reference for all interested in charitable work. 6. By repressing local mendicity by means of investigation tickets and otherwise.
Page 5 - To promote the general welfare of the poor by social and sanitary reforms and by the inculcation of habits of providence and self-dependence.
Page 4 - By propagating sound principles and views in regard to the administration of charity. 2. By promoting the co-operation of charitable institutions for the furtherance of their common work. 3. By convening Special Committees to inquire into and report on comparatively technical questions connected with the administration of charity, such as the education of the blind,- the legal provision foi the afflicted, convalescent homes, artisans
Page 62 - Questions arising at any meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present; and in case of an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.
Page 15 - To obtain from the proper charities, or from charitable individuab, suitable and adequate relief for deserving cases. V. — To assist from its own funds, and as far as possible in the form of loans, all suitable cases for which adequate assistance cannot be obtained from other sources.
Page 44 - West End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, Paralysis, and Epilepsy, Welbeck Street, W.
Page 16 - To investigate thoroughly the cases of all applicants for charitable relief, whether they are referred to the offices for inquiry and report, or whether they apply of their own accord. III. — To place gratuitously at the disposal of all charitable agencies and private persons...
Page 9 - To assist from its own funds, or in the form of loans, all suitable cases for which adequate assistance cannot be obtained from other sources. VI. — To repress mendicity by the above means by the gratuitous distribution of Investigation Tickets and by the prosecution of impostors.