7. It would tend to augment the number of steady respectable women, who are anxious to keep a good moral and require a good business character, whose aim it is to do their duty, to give satisfaction to their superiors, to keep their places in the same hospital, and eventually to end their days out of the workhouse.
8. It would tend to diminish the number of ill-conducted women, who wander from hospital to hospital; whose wages go in drink or finery, or both; who would be disgusted at the idea of regularly laying by for their future support, and who would resent strict investigation into character.
9. It would tend to induce the intermediate class of women, who hesitate between good and bad companions, to incline to the former, and to break off from the latter, by the favourable result of provident and economical habits on their actual conduct; and by the effect which the prospect of a decent support in their age, dependent upon these habits, would produce.
III. Of what Nature?
- 1. With regard to kind?
- 2. With regard to persons?
- 3. With regard to objects?
Kinds of possible assistance, three.
1. With regard to kind.
There are three kinds of possible assistance.
Pensions.