CHARLES KNIGHT & CO., 22, LUDGATE STREET,

PUBLISHERS BY AUTHORITY TO THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS.

1844.

REPORT.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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PROCEEDINGS IN ENGLAND.

Increase in demand for Labour in the Manufacturing and Agricultural parts

of the country

Regulations respecting Out-door Relief of the Able-bodied generally observed

during the winter

Removal of suspension of the Prohibitory Order in Wolstanton and Burslem
Union, and in Stoke-upon-Trent

Poor-rate, Expenditure, and Pauperism

Amount levied and expended in the years 1834 to 1843
Amount of Expenditure for the last two parochial years

Number of Paupers relieved in quarters ended at Lady-day, 1840-41-
42-43

Different rate of increase of Expenditure in different counties

Comparative statement of Expenditure in 584 Unions in the Years 1842

and 1843

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Comparative statement of Number of Paupers relieved in the quarters

ended at Lady-day, 1842 and 1843

Diminution of Expenditure in the half-year ended at Michaelmas, 18437

Relief of Casual Poor and Vagrants

Duty of Parish and Union Officers to relieve Destitute Persons, wherever

they may be, irrespective of their settlement

Evils of lax administration of Relief

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Result of the adoption of a better system

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Return of Number of Vagrants admitted into certain workhouses on the

30th November, 1842 and 1843

Return of Number of Vagrants admitted into certain Workhouses in the

last eight weeks of 1842 and 1843

Question of Vagrancy in connexion with the general administration of the

Poor Law considered

Alleged effect of the Poor Law Amendment Act in increasing Vagrancy 14

Difficulty of obtaining accurate Statistics on this subject

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Tendency of Abolition of Settlement by Hiring and Service, and other
Alterations in the Law, to give facilities to Labourers to seek work
elsewhere when it failed them at home
Consequent occurrence of cases in which the Labourer, when at a distance
from home, is thrown on the Public Fund for maintenance of the Poor

Returns as to number of Vagrants relieved in certain Towns in 1843

Returns as to number of Vagrants taken into custody in the Metropolis 16