199. Qu. Whether we are apprized, of all the uses that may be made of political arithmetic?
200. Qu. Whether it would be a great hardship if every parish were obliged to find work for their poor?
201. Qu. Whether children especially should not be inured to labour betimes?
202. Qu. Whether there should not be erected, in each province, an hospital for orphans and foundlings, at the expense of old bachelors?
203. Qu. Whether it be true that in the Dutch workhouses things are so managed that a child four years old may earn its own livelihood?
204. Qu. What a folly is it to build fine houses, or establish lucrative posts and large incomes, under the notion of providing for the poor?
205. Qu. Whether the poor, grown up and in health, need any other provision but their own industry, under public inspection?
206. Qu. Whether the poor-tax in England hath lessened or increased the number of the poor?
207. Qu. Why the workhouse in Dublin, with so good an endowment, should yet be of so little use? and whether this may not be owing to that very endowment?
208. Qu. Whether that income might not, by this time, have gone through the whole kingdom, and erected a dozen workhouses in every county?