Statement of the Provision for the Poor, and of the Condition of the Labouring Classes in a Considerable Portion of America and Europe / Being the preface to the foreign communications contained in the appendix to the Poor-Law Report

by Nassau William Senior

Children:

Illegitimate.

• 1. Upon whom does the support of illegitimate children fall; wholly upon the mothers, or wholly upon the fathers; or is the expense distributed between them, and in what proportion, and under what regulations?
• 2. To what extent and under what regulations are the relatives of the mothers or fathers ever compelled to assist in the maintenance of bastards?
• 3. To what extent and under what regulations are illegitimate children supported at the public expense?

Orphans, Foundlings, or Deserted Children.

• 4. To what extent and under what regulations are they taken into establishments for their reception?
• 5. To what extent and under what regulations are they billeted or quartered on householders?
• 6. To what extent and under what regulations are they boarded with individuals?
• 7. To what extent and under what regulations, and to what degree of relationship, are their relatives compelled to support them?