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

• 1st. By the Voluntary Payment of Individuals or Corporate Bodies.
• 2nd. By Institutions specially endowed for that purpose.
• 3rd. By the Government, either general or local.
• 4th. By any one or more of these means combined.

And you are requested to state particularly the cases (if any) in which the person relieved has a legal claim.

QUESTIONS.

Vagrants.

• 1. To what extent and under what form does mendicity prevail in the several districts of the country?
• 2. Is there any relief to persons passing through the country, seeking work, returning to their native places, or living by begging; and by whom afforded, and under what regulations?

Destitute Able-bodied.

• 1. To what extent and under what regulations are they, or any part of their families, billeted or quartered on householders?
• 2. To what extent and under what regulations are they boarded with individuals?
• 3. To what extent and under what regulations are there district houses of industry for receiving the destitute able-bodied, or any part of their families, and supplying them with food, clothes, &c., and in which they are set to work?
• 4. To what extent and under what regulations do any religious institutions give assistance to the destitute, by receiving them as inmates, or by giving them alms?
• 5. To what extent and under what regulations is work provided at their own dwellings for those who have trades, but do not procure work for themselves?
• 6. To what extent and under what regulations is work provided for such persons in agriculture or on public works?
• 7. To what extent and under what regulations are fuel, clothing, or money, distributed to such persons or their families; at all times of the year, or during any particular seasons?
• 8. To what extent and under what regulations are they relieved by their children being taken into schools, and fed, clothed and educated, or apprenticed?
• 9. To what extent and under what regulations, and to what degree of relationship are the relatives of the destitute compelled to assist them with money, food, or clothing, or by taking charge of part of their families?
• 10. To what extent and under what regulations are they assisted by loans?

Impotent Through Age.