...Public Police, pp. 4-5; A Principal Cause of the Miseries of the Poor (London, 1787), 6-7; and Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (5 vols.; London, 1798-1808), n, 189n-90n. 41 Schuyler (ed.), Josioh Tucker, p. 261. *' For a discussion...

...presented to the Magistrates of Lancashire (1845, 1848, 1851, 1855). The Preston Pilot (1851). Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (vol 1, 1798; vol 3, 1802). 6 ACTS 4 & 5 William IV c. 76. An Act for the Amendment and better administration...

...correspondent had even written a letter on the subject as early as 1801 which he had intended to send to the Society for Bettering the Condition, and Increasing the Comforts, of the Poor. He thought better of it, though, as 'any attempts to civilise a race of beings so degraded, and held...

...clergyman Thomas Foster that signalled their establishment on a broader basis. In the first report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor Winchilsea was selected for public commendation on this account. Young called him 'one of the very...

...Wilberforce, 1 1 September 1800, in RB Johnson (ed.), Letters of Hannah More (London, 1925), p. 177; Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, 7 vols. (London, 1798-1817), vol. II, pp. 27-8. 37 See also Richard A. Soloway, ' Reform or ruin :...

...warning was given that in such instances there would be no readmittance. 47 43 For example, Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, vol. 1, pp. x-xii; vol. 2, p. 231; appendix rv, p. 21; vol. 3, appendix v, pp. 39-4o; Vol. rv, appendix...

...Poverty, 1900-1980 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981), p. 168. 19. The First Report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (London: W. Budmer and Co., for T. Becket, Bookseller, Pall-Mall, 1797), pp. i, iii. 20. Economic Report...

...(London, 1784), p. 42 n. 40 A Country Overseer, The Poor Laws England's Ruin, p. 10. 41 The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, 5 vols. (London, 1798-1800), 1:81-85, 1:328-29. For a more efficiency-minded concern with food, see...

...Agriculture of the County of Dorset (1812), p. 454. 9. Information for Cottagers, Collected from the Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (1800), p. 51 (British Library, G. 16241). Further evidence on Rutland is presented in Robert Goulay,...

...clothing from pawn"70). Abuses occurred. Ferriar told of a Manchester fever the Fever Institution," Report of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor 6 (1815): 2; Ferriar, "Account of the Establishment of Fever-Wards in Manchester," 323. 67 Ferriar,...