1. To what extent and under what regulations are there almshouses
or other institutions for the reception of those who, through age,
are incapable of earning their subsistence?
2. To what extent and under what regulations is relief in food,
fuel, clothing, or money afforded them at their homes?
3. To what extent, and under what regulations, are they boarded
with individuals?
4. To what extent and under what regulations are they quartered
or billeted on householders?
5. To what extent and under what regulations, and to what degree
of relationship, are their relatives compelled to assist them with
money, food, or clothing, or by taking part of their families?
Sick.
1. To what extent and under what regulations are there district
institutions for the reception of the sick?
2. To what extent and under what regulations are surgical
and medical relief afforded to the poor at their own homes?
3. To what extent and under what regulations are there institutions
for affording food, fuel, clothing, or money to the
sick?
4. To what extent and under what regulations is assistance
given to lying-in women at their homes, or in public establishments?
5. To what extent and under what regulations are there any
other modes of affording public assistance to the sick?
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?