Able-bodied, the, attendance at classes as condition of relief, [94];
not to be allowed out to look for work, [80];
but so allowed, [260];
beer granted to, [246]-[247];
classification of, [32]-[33];
detention of, [268], [291];
definition or want of definition of, [4], [11], [13], [15], [22]-[23], [32], [51], [90],
discrimination among, [3]-[4], [259];
disfranchisement of, [261];
under Distress Committees, [260]-[262];
emigration of, [260];
employment of, under Poor Law, [4]-[6], [10], [28], [74]-[75], [121], [133], [246];
employment of, at wages, [29], [83], [260]-[261];
families of, [28], [158]-[159], [170]-[171], [184];
in Farm Colonies, [260];
in 1834 Report, [3]-[6], [11], [13], [236];
Ins and Outs among, [288];
ineligible for relief in Scotland, [95], [356]-[361];
industrial and reformatory institutions for, [235];
labour test for, [36], [84], [154], [156]-[158], [259]-[262];
luncheon allowed to, [246];
under Majority Report, [275];
Manchester rules as to, [152];
mental trainer for, [260], [265];
migration of, [260];
under Minority Report, [297];
and Modified W.T. Order, [158]-[159], [170]-[171];
and non-resident relief, [53];
outdoor relief to, [4]-[8], [13], [15], [22]-[32], [51], [54], [83]-[87], [90]-[91], [130], [149], [152]-[158], [167], [257]-[259], [260]-[262];
at Poplar, [260];
power of Central Authority to regulate, [12]-[13], [21];
and Principle of Curative Treatment, [265];
and Principle of Less Eligibility, [3]-[11], [83]-[84], [259]-[261];
and Principle of National Uniformity, [3]-[4], [83], [90]-[91], [257];
relief in kind for, [39], [42], [43], [130];
relief on loan, [11];
in Scotland, [95], [356]-[361];
Test Workhouse for, [159]-[164], [243], [358]-[359];
women as, [3], [15];
and the workhouse, [5]-[6], [9]-[10], [32]-[33], [61], [74]-[75], [83]-[85], [91], [121], [128], [134], [140]; [151], [154]-[160], [165], [235]-[236], [244]-[247], [259]-[260], [262], [268];
See also Unemployed and Vagrants;
----Test Workhouse, [159]-[164], [170], [243], [358]-[359];
Aged and infirm, [3], [8]-[9], [12], [51]-[53], [89] n., [128]-[130], [132], [148], [229]-[240], [265], [271];
definition of, [51], [52];
grant of outdoor relief to, [6]-[7], [8]-[9], [15], [18], [51]-[52], [65] n., [84], [128]-[130], [131] n., [149]-[153], [207], [229]-[235], [258], [262], [265];
in workhouse, [56], [61], [71]-[72], [79], [84]-[85], [134], [222], [235]-[240], [242], [243];
separate building for, [6], [9], [52], 83, [85], [121] n., [236], [258];
employment of, [67], [74], [237] n., [246];
diet of, [68], [69], [138], [139] n., [237] n., [240], [242];
married couples, separate accommodation for, in workhouse, [65]-[66], [81], [236] n., [238];
application of workhouse test to, [52]-[53], [85]-[86], [150], [152], [229]-[230], [258];
boarding out of, [232] n., [241];
in workhouse of another Union, [161];
no national uniformity in treatment of, [84], [234], [258];
statistics of, [130]-[131] n., [233] n., [235] n.;
Bill for establishment of District Infirmaries for, [49], [52];
for establishment of Cottage Homes for, [226];
----Poor, Royal Commission on, [231], [232];
Alcohol for paupers, [19], [68], [218], [246]-[247];
Alcoholism, [304]-[306];
Allowance system, [24], [87];
Almshouses for deserving aged, [258];
Anstie, Dr., [119];
Apprentices, obligation of householders to receive, [17];
Apprenticeship, [4], [8], [12], [17], [45]-[46], [113] n., [200]-[203];
to sea service, [17], [202]-[203];
payment of premiums for, [45], [46], [50], [265];
"outdoor," [110];
----orders, [45]-[46], [113]n.
Arnold, Sir Arthur, [94] n.
Aschrott, Dr. P. F., [vi];
Assistant Commissioners. See Commissioners, Assistant;
Association for the Cure of Tuberculosis, [217]-[218] n.;
----for Improving the Condition of the Sick Poor, [119];
----of Poor Law Unions, [249];
Asylums for houseless poor, [14], [35], [97];
for insane, [50], [89] n.;
for sick, [89] n., [121];
of Metropolitan Asylums Board, for idiots, [224]-[225];
Aubin, Mr., [44], [108] n.;
Auditor, disallowance by, of toys for sick children, [189];
of beer, [247];
Bagenal, Mr., [221], [233] n., [234] n.;
Baines, Mr., [117] n.;
Baker, Mr. T. Barwick L., [96] n., [100] n.;
Balfour, Mr. Gerald, [169]n.;
Band of Hope, donation by guardians to funds of, [190];
"Barrack Schools," [112], [114], [186], [258];
See also Schools, Poor Law;
Bastardy, recommendations of 1834 Report about, [7];
Berrington, Mr., [203];
Beveridge, Mr. W. H., [356];
Blind, [128] n., [184], [227];
relief to, [18], [50], [228]-[229];
institutional treatment of, [8], [50], [127]-[128], [227], [241];
apprenticeship of, [45], [50];
See also Children, Defective;
"Block system," [186];
Board of Education, [195];
----of Guardians. See Guardians;
----of Trade, [202];
Boarding-out, orders for, [130];
declared to be outdoor relief, [232] n.;
See also Aged, Children, and Unsound Mind, Persons of;
----Committee. See Committee;
Boards, District, [166], [168], [213];
Bone-pounding, [75];
Bosanquet, Mrs. B., [274];
Bosanquet, Prof. B., [280], [350];
Bowen, Mr. John, [132] n.;
Boyle, Mr. Courtenay, [228] n.;
Boys in workhouses, [61], [66]-[67], [76], [110]-[111];
at Norwich Homes, [110]-[111];
working home for, at Keighley, [202];
Bridges, Dr. J. H., [139] n., [186] n.;
Buchanan, Dr., [119] n.;
Bulkley, Miss M., [ix];
Buller, Mr. Charles, 95, [96] n., [99], [107];
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, [167];
"Canary Wards," [76];
Carr, Dr., [119];
Casson, Mr. W. A., [199] n., [202] n., [206] n., [217] n., [218] n., [229] n., [240] n., [241] n., [245] n., [247] n., [250] n.;
Casual labourers, excluded from Lancashire relief works, [166];
----Poor Act (1882), [174] n., [245] n.;
----wards, [33], [35]-[36], [64], [80], [96]-[99], [133], [163] n., [172], [173] n., [174] n.;
See also Vagrants;
Central Authority, establishment of, [2];
regulations made by, [6], [8], [11], [12], [13], [15], [16], [17]-[18], [18]-[19], [21];
powers of, [12], [54]-[55], [89] n.;
approval by, of grant of outdoor relief to able-bodied, [13], [29], [30], [31], [43]-[44];
of emigration of poor persons, [19];
of married couples living together, [65];
See also Local Government Board, Poor Law Board, and Poor Law Commissioners;
Certified Schools Act (1862), [111] n.;
Chadwick, Sir Edward, [282];
Chamberlain, Mr. Joseph, [164]-[165], [166], [167], [168], [261];
Chance, Sir W., [vi], [vii], [253] n.;
Chaplain, workhouse, [77]-[78];
Chaplin, Mr. Henry, [164] n., [199], [231], [232] n., [233], [238];
Charge and recovery, [7], [198] n., [295], [361], [363];
Charity, function of, in Majority Report, [281]-[283];
in the Minority Report, [307]-[311];
to deal with hard cases, [4], [230];
overlapping of, [103];
Charity Organisation Society, [274], [282];
Chevalier, Mons. E., [vi];
Children, classed as able-bodied, [90] n.;
adoption of, [196], [203]-[206], [268];
apprenticeship of, [17], [45]-[46], [200]-[203], [265];
baptism of, [79] n.;
boarding out of, [80], [84], [114]-[115], [130], [184], [195]-[206], [227], [232] n., [241], [258];
in certified schools, [203], [206];
defective, [46], [226]-[227];
deserted, [12] n., [142], [195]-[196], [250]-[251], [268];
detention of, [204] n., [268];
education of, [7], [12]-[16], [73], [82]-[83], [104]-[106], [109], [121] n., [146], [180] n., [191]-[195], [264]-[269];
emigration of, [142], [250];
farming out of, [44], [108], [187] n.;
illegitimate, [16], [196];
imbecile, [224]-[228];
in industrial schools, [261]-[262];
institutional provision for, [83]-[85], [104], [106]-[114], [133] n., [184], [187]-[195], [203], [236], [258], [262]-[265];
ophthalmic, 189, [192] n.;
orphan, [3], [12] n., [80], [83]-[84], [104]-[106], [114], [142]-[143], [195]-[196], [250]-[251], [268];
out-relief to, [16], [43]-[44], [179]-[188], [195]-[199], [203], [206], [258], [265];
parental authority over, [268];
under pauper care, [125] n., [188], [190];
and Principle of Less Eligibility, [109], [114], [146]-[149], [187], [192], [200], [250], [261]-[262], [265];
and Principle of National Uniformity, [258];
and relief on loan, [143], [253];
religious teaching of, [16], [77]-[78], [191], [193], [204]-[205];
on remand, [192] n.;
Roman Catholic, [241];
school fees for, [44], [104]-[106];
and stigma of pauperism, [262];
underfed at day school, [183]-[184], [253];
in the workhouse, [7], [9], [12]-[16], [43]-[45], [71]-[72], [80], [82]-[83], [106]-[107], [112]-[113], [121] n., [133]-[134], [138], [160], [177], [181]-[182], [185], [188]-[192], [195]-[196], [224]-[226], [238], [242]-[243], [259];
See also Infant
Children Act (1908), [312], [314];
Children's Care Committees, [310]-[311];
Cholera, [116], [119] n.;
patients suffering from, not to be admitted to workhouse, [119] n.;
Christmas Day, no extra dinner allowed on, [69];
extra allowed, [70];
Church Army, [171];
Circulars of Central Authority, [21], [22];
Clothing, as outdoor relief, [25] n., [100] n.;
purchase or redemption of, by voluntary agencies, [144];
Cod-liver oil, supply of, [117];
Commission, Royal, on Aged Poor, [231]-[232];
on the Blind, etc., [189];
on the Feeble-minded, [312], [314], [345], [354]-[355], [361];
of 1832-1834, [3]-[11], [257]-[263];
of 1905-1909, [274]-[319];
Commissioners, Assistant, [57], [147];
Committee, Departmental, on weighing rations, [249];
on vagrancy, [174];
----Parliamentary, of 1838, [35], [37];
of 1864, [97], [117]-[118];
of 1888, [174];
of 1892, [167]-[168];
of 1900, [226];
----of Privy Council on Education, [107] n., [109] n.;
Committees, boarding-out, [196]-[200];
----Visiting, of lunatic asylum, [222], [223], [224];
----Visiting, of workhouse, [77], [125], [238], [244], [247]-[248];
----Women's, [189];
Common Poor Fund.
See Metropolitan Common Poor Fund;
Commons, House of, [148], [153];
Compulsion, [270]-[272];
principle of, [263], [267]-[268];
in Majority Report, [276];
Constable may take children to workhouse, [181];
Continuous treatment, [276];
Convict, emigration of family of, [141];
Corbett, Mr., [140] n., [145] n., [147] n., [148], [155] n., [157] n., [158] n., [159], [161] n., [162] n., [175] n., [178], [183], [186], [198] n., [251];
Corn-grinding, [75], [164] n., [246];
Cost of Minority Report proposals, [297]-[300];
recovery of, [294]-[295];
Cottage homes, [185]-[187], [226], [258], [264];
Cotton famine in Lancashire, [90] n., [91]-[93], [105], [142], [166];
Councils of Social Welfare, sphere of, under Minority Report, [311];
Country Holiday Fund, [310]-[311];
Creed register, [77];
Criminal Lunatics Act (1838), [18] n.;
Cripples, [127]-[128], [255];
Culley, Mr., [150] n., [158] n., [177] n., [229] n., [253] n.;
Curative treatment, [263]-[266], [269]-[272];
principle of, [263]-[266];
in Majority Report, [275];
Custody of Children Act, [205];
Davy, Mr., [181], [203], [232] n.;
Deaf and dumb, [18], [50], [127], [184], [241];
See also Children, Defective;
Defectives, [50], [74], [85], [127]-[128], [226]-[229];
See also Blind, Deaf and Dumb, and Children, Defective;
----mentally. See Unsound Mind, Persons of;
Denison's Act, [105], [179];
Destitution, causes of, [300], [347];
definition of, as regards medical relief, [116], [212] n.;
want of education a form of, [105] n.;
----authority, plea for, in Majority Report, [278]-[281];
necessity for, in 1834, [278];
not to apply to mentally defective, [279];
connection of, with "moral" defect, [281];
with principle of compulsion, [289]-[292];
with principle of universal provision, [292]-[295];
the officials of a, [285];
inability of, to deal with incipient stage, [286]-[287];
inability of, to search out, [287]-[288];
inability of, to deal with ins and outs, [288]-[289];
inability of, to deal with unemployed, [291];
overlapping of other authorities with, [293];
Prof. Bosanquet's argument for, [350]-[361];
Detention. See Workhouse;
----Colony, [307];
Disciplinary supervision as substitute for deterrence, [316]-[317];
Dietaries and Accounts Order, [170], [171] n., [240] n., [245], [248], [249];
Diseases Prevention Act, [209] n., [213];
Disfranchisement of able-bodied, [168] n., [261];
of sick, [209], [213], [217];
Dispensaries, Poor Law, [118], [146], [208], [258], [264];
provident, [118];
Dissenters. See Nonconformists;
Distress Committee, [172];
powers and constitution of, [169];
employment of able-bodied by, [169] n., [260], [261], [262];
Distress from want of employment, Committee of House of Commons on, [167];
District medical officers. See Medical Officers, District;
----Nurses Order, [181], [210] n.
See also Nurses;
Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act, [175] n., [209] n., [245] n.;
Dodson, Mr., [151]-[152];
Doyle, Mr., [148];
Drink, [304]-[306];
Drouet, Mr., [108];
Dumsday, Mr. W. H., [197] n.
Ebrington, Lord, [137] n.;
Education, provision of, for paupers, [126], [266]-[267], [271].
See also Children, Education of;
----Aid Society, Manchester and Salford, [105] n.;
----Department, 180
----Acts (1870-1909), [105]-[106], [177], [179] n., [180] n., [198], [201], [227] n., [228], [312], [313], [344], [361];
----(Administrative Provisions) Act (1907), [312];
----of Poor Children Act (1855), [105] n.;
----(Provision of Meals) Act (1906), [312], [313];
----(Scotland) Act (1908), [312], [344], [361];
Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act (1893), [227]n, [228]
----(Defective and Epileptic Children) Act (1899), [227] n.;
Emigration, [10], [19], [141]-[143], [169], [249]-[251], [260], [266];
Epileptics, [217], [218], [255];
Estcourt, Mr. Sotheron, [96] n., [97] n.;
Factory Acts, [198];
Family, how the Minority Report deals with the, [301]-[302], [348]-[349];
Farm colonies, [169]-[172], [255], [260], [265], [270];
Fawcett, Professor H., [115];
Feeble-minded, [80];
proposed authority for the, [354]-[355];
Royal Commission on, [312], [314], [345], [354], [355], [361].
See Unsound Mind, Persons of;
Fels, Mr. Joseph, [170];
Fever wards, [122];
Fleming, Mr. Baldwyn, [181]-[182], [192], [234] n., [254] n.;
Fowle, Rev. T. W., vi, [115];
Fowler, Sir Henry (Lord Wolverhampton), [167], [230] n., [238];
Franchise, extension of, [148];
Free Education Act (1891), [106];
Friendly societies, out-relief to members of, [47], [48], [148], [253]-[255], [265];
Froment, Mons. G. E. de, [vi];
Fust, Mr. Jenner, [190]-[191];
Gambling, [304];
Gardiner, Colonel Lynedoch, [145] n.;
General Board of Health, [146];
----Consolidated Order (1847), [32]-[33], [35]-[36], [46], [54], [56], [61]-[62], [79], [81]-[82], [88], [91], [107]-[108], [113], [126]-[127], [133], [170], [188], [235]-[237], [240], [249], [260];
----Orders or Rules, [21]-[22], [48], [61]-[62];
Gilbert's Act, [321];
Girls, employment of, [67];
in workhouse, [66]-[67], [134];
Glanville, Dr. Mortimer, [210] n., [211] n.;
Goschen, Mr. G. J. (Lord Goschen), [100], [102], [103], [104] n., [123], [144]-[145], [147] n., [148], [149], [207], [214], [219], [253], [254], [255], [266], [282]-[283];
Grant, Colonel C. W., [114] n.;
Greater Eligibility, Principle of, [263], [264], [265];
Guardians, grant of relief by, [12];
apprenticing of children by, [17];
consent of, for building new workhouse, [19], [54];
opposition of, to establishment of vagrant districts, [35], [97];
to establishment of boarding-schools, [45];
subscriptions by, to voluntary institutions, [63] n., [116], [217] n.;
refractory paupers brought before, [76];
part taken by, in provision of relief works, [90] n., [93]-[94], [165], [166], [167];
nomination of members of Distress Committees by, [169];
Conference of, in London, [178] n., [198] n.;
proceedings taken against parents by, for neglect of children, [180], [181], [184];
inspection of boarded-out children by, [199]-[200];
in country, conservatism of, [187], [192];
election of, [209] n., [247];
in rural districts, the public health authorities, [212] n., [219]-[220];
combination of, for classification by workhouses, [243]-[244];
Guilds of Help, sphere of, under Minority Report, [311];
Hanway's Act, [17] n.;
Hardy, Mr. Gathorne, [120], [215];
Harries, Mr. Thomas, [137] n.;
Hart, Dr. Ernest, [119];
Head, Sir Edmund, [86];
Head, Sir Francis, [57], [58], [60], [86], [131];
Health Societies, [311];
----visitors, [220], [310];
Hedley, Mr., [151] n., [220] n.;
Henley, Mr., [163];
Hervey, Mr., [187] n., [219];
Hibbert, Sir J., [189];
Hicks-Beach, Sir M. (Lord St. Aldwyn), [98]-[99];
Hill, Miss F., [114] n.;
Hill, Miss Octavia, [145] n., [253];
Hodgson, Mr., [104];
Homes, Children's, [109]-[111], [201];
convalescent, [241], [255];
for aged, [239] n.;
See Cottage Homes;
Hospitals, relation of Poor Law to, [63] n., [116], [119], [120], [216]-[217], [220], [241], [255], [266];
House of Lords. See Committees, Parliamentary;
Houseless Poor, [35] n.;
See also Vagrants;
Idiots, [63], [123], [224]-[225], [242];
See Unsound Mind, Persons of;
Imbeciles. See Unsound Mind, Persons of;
Impotent, [8]-[9], [18], [51].
See also Aged;
Industrial Schools. See Schools, Industrial;
----Schools Acts, [111];
Inebriates Act, [206];
Infants, in workhouse, [56], [61], [62], [63]-[64], [66], [67], [72].
See also Children;
Infectious disease, [126], [245] n., [271];
provision for, by Guardians, [62] n., [119], [136], [214] n.;
by Metropolitan Asylums Board, [123], [209] n., [212]-[213].
See also Hospitals;
Infirm. See Aged and Infirm;
Infirmaries, Bill for establishment of District, [49], [52];
----Poor Law, [121], [207], [235] n.;
pressure on Guardians to provide, [211]-[212], [216];
cost of maintenance in, borne by Common Poor Fund, [214];
increasing popularity of, [214]-[216];
admission to, [214] n., [215];
maintenance in, held to be medical relief only, [217].
See also Workhouse, Sick in;
"Ins and Outs," [132], [192] n., [206];
detention of, [244]-[245];
Insane. See Unsound Mind, Persons of;
Inspectors of Local Government Board, [147], [181]-[182], [190], [206], [216], [225], [241];
strict policy urged by, [148]-[153], [159], [164], [175], [178], [207]-[208], [229], [232], [243], [251], [252];
test workhouse advocated by, [159]-[161], [163], [243];
conferences of, [151];
----of Lunacy Commissioners, [125];
----of Schools, [113], [114];
Justices, granting of relief by, [12], [13], [14], [18];
committal of lunatics to asylum by, [18];
detention of lunatics in workhouse by order of, [222], [223];
Kennedy, Mr., [182] n., [187] n.;
Labour colonies for vagrants, [171] n.;
----Exchanges Act (1908), [346];
----Exchanges of Distress Committees, [169], [172], [270];
in Majority Report, [277];
in Minority Report, [358]-[359];
----Test, [156]-[158], [165], [178], [261];
Laisser faire, [270];
Lambert, Sir John, [153] n., [219];
Lancet, The, [117], [134], [210] n., [211] n., [235];
Land, cultivation of, [165], [168]-[170], [246];
Landquist, Mr. J. F., [188] n.;
Lansbury, Mr. G., [170];
Lefevre, Mr. Shaw (Lord Eversley), [167], [168] n.;
Less Eligibility, Principle of, how far applicable, [1], [3], [11], [45], [83]-[85], [88]-[89], [109], [112], [114], [117]-[118], [122], [125]-[126], [172], [187], [192], [200], [212] n., [250], [256], [259]-[263], [265]-[266], [269], [271];
Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, [86], [89];
Lewis, Sir G. F., [89] n.;
Local Authorities, position of, [2], [12];
----Government Board for England and Wales, [146]-[255], [263];
----Government Board for Scotland, order of, as to phthisis, [344], [345], [352];
Lock Hospital at Aldershot, [217] n.;
Lockwood, Mr., [163] n.;
London County Council, [310];
----Hospital, [63] n.;
Long, Mr. Walter, [169], [218] n., [245], [250];
Longley, Sir Henry, [148], [150] n., [151], [154] n., [159]-[160], [161] n., [177] n., [207] n., [208], [214] n., [229], [230], [232], [235], [237], [243], [247], [251] n.;
Longman, Miss M., [ix];
Lonsdale, Miss S., [vii];
Lunacy Acts, [124] n., [222] n., [223] n.;
----Commissioners, [125]-[127], [133], [221], [222], [224];
Lunatics, [8], [18], [25] n., [49], [50], [63], [89] n., [123]-[126], [252], [267], [271].
See Unsound Mind, Persons of;
Lushington, Mr., [195] n., [238] n.;
Lying-in cases, [62], [63], [136];
M'Culloch, Mr. J. R., [132];
Mackay, Mr. T., [vi], [vii], [87] n., [94] n., [105] n., [115], [151] n.;
Macmorran, Mr., [195] n., [238] n.;
Magistrates, police, [162];
Majority Report, [274]-[295];
repudiates "Principles of 1834," [275];
adopts "Principles of 1907," [275];
pleads for a single Destitution Authority, [278]-[281];
reverts to "Principles of 1834," [281]-[283];
summary of, [313]-[314];
Makers Up, Society of, [94];
"Manchester Rules," [152], [153], [175], [179] n.;
Markham, Dr., [139] n.;
Married couples, separate accommodation for, in workhouse, [65]-[66], [81], [236] n., [238];
----Women's Property Act, [175] n.
Martineau, Harriet, [85]-[86], [131];
Master of Workhouse, [70], [72], [74], [76], [77], [238], [244] n.;
Matron of Workhouse, [70], [73], [74], [238];
"Medical extras," [25] n., [48];
----inspection and treatment, in Majority Report, [277];
----Officer, District, [211], [231];
qualifications and remuneration of, [48], [117], [251]-[252], [264];
inspection by, of boarded-out children, [199];
of boarded-out lunatics, [224];
Medical officer of workhouse, [8], [60], [68]-[69], [74], [138], [189], [237] n., [246], [247];
appointment and duties of, [71];
----Relief Disqualification Act. [209] n., [217] n.;
----Relief, [4], [8], [13], [18], [117], [123], [143], [153], [210], [211], [219]-[220], [264];
Medicines, supply of free, to sick poor, [123], [219];
supply of, by Public Health Authorities, [220];
expensive, supply of, by Guardians, [117], [264];
Mentally defective, proposed Authority for the, [354]-[355].
See Unsound Mind, Persons of;
Merchant Shipping Acts, [17], [202];
Metropolitan Asylums Board, infectious diseases hospitals of, [123], [209] n., [212]-[213], [214], [216];
establishment of training-ships by, [112];
provision made by, for idiots, [127], [224]-[225], [227]-[228];
for "remand children," [192] n.;
expenditure of, [219] n., [243] n.;
----Board of Works, [97] n., [164]-[165];
----Common Poor Fund, [97] n., [168], [170], [185], [212], [213], [214], 232, [235];
----Houseless Poor Acts, [97], [98], [99];
----Police District, [19], [55];
----Poor Acts, 89 n., [112], [118], [160], [161], [208] n., [214] n., [215] n., 232 n.;
Migration, [144], [169], [260] n.;
"Miners' phthisis," [221];
Minority Report, [274], [296]-[311];
adopts Principles of 1907, [296]-[297];
adds to them Principle of Prevention, [297]-[304];
economy of, [298]-[300];
the "Moral Factor" in, [304]-[307];
drink in, [304]-[306];
unemployment in, [306]-[307];
voluntary agencies in, [307]-[311];
summary of, [314]-[317];
"Moral Factor," the, [304]-[309], [350]-[361];
Mouat, Dr., [216] n.;
Mozley, Mr., [185] n.;
Municipalities, relief works undertaken by, [92]-[94], [165]-[168];
regularisation of work of, [168];
National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law, [274];
----Labour Exchange, [359];
----Uniformity, Principle of, [1]-[3], [11], [12], [22]-[23], [83]-[84], [90]-[91], [153]-[154], [173], [174], [234], [256]-[259], [271];
Nichols, Sir George, vii, [86];
Nonconformists, provision for, [77]-[79];
Non-parishioners, relief to, [13], [14];
Non-residents, relief to, [53]-[54], [128] n., [130], [187]-[188], [232] n., [240]-[242], [254] n.;
North-Eastern Metropolitan District, [35];
Nurses, for indoor sick, [67], [120], [211], [216] n., [218], [219];
for outdoor sick, [210], [211] n., [258], [264];
in lunatic ward, [126];
for epileptics, [218];
See also District Nurses Order;
Oakum-picking, [75], [157], [161]-[164], [178];
Obligation, mutual, between community and individual, [269]-[270];
Offences against the Person Act (1861), [113] n.;
Old Age Pensions Act (1908), [312], [344], [354];
----Age Pensions, in Majority Report, [277];
in Minority Report, [363];
Operations, surgical, [264];
Orders of Central Authority. See General Orders, Special Orders, Outdoor Relief, and Outdoor Labour Test Order;
Orphans. See Children;
Outdoor Labour Test Order, [26], [29], [30]-[31], [36], [39], [41], [43], [46], [49], [83]-[84], [88], [90]-[91], [100]-[101], [149], [154], [156], [167]-[168], [261] n.;
----Medical Relief. See Medical Relief and Sick;
----Relief to able-bodied, [4]-[8], [13], [15], [22]-[32], [39], [43], [51], [54], [83]-[87], [90]-[91], [94], [130], [149], [154]-[155], [167], [228], [257]-[259], [262];
to be always adequate, [103], [145], [258], [265];
to aged and infirm, [6]-[9], [15], [18], [51], [52], [65] n., [84], [128]-[131], [149], [182]-[183], [232] n., [258], [262], [265];
to the blind, [50];
charitable supplementation of, [103], [144];
to children, [43], [83], [104] n., [179]-[185], [196], [201]-[202];
to the deaf and dumb, [50];
to deserted wives, [36], [40], [101], [175];
discouragement of, [87] n., [143]-[153], [179], [207]-[209], [229]-[230], [232], [243], [265];
discrimination in grant of, [2], [27]-[28], [42], [258], [262];
enquiries into, [103], [145] n., [149], [229];
to Friendly Society members, [47], [265];
in kind, [28], [36], [39], [42]-[43], [128]-[130];
on Labour Test, see Outdoor Labour Test Order;
Sir H. Longley on, [151], [207];
on loan, [47], [232] n., [253];
to lunatics, [49], [123], [223];
as maintenance in voluntary institution, [255];
"Manchester Rules" as to, [152]-[153], [175];
medical, [25] n.; under Modified W. T. Order, [170]-[171], [260];
to mothers of illegitimate children, [7]-[23];
to non-residents, [53], [54];
orders as to, in different unions, [321]-[342];
to partially disabled, [27];
proposed prohibition of, [13], [85]-[87];
sanctioned by Central Authority, [43]-[44];
to the sick, [6]-[9], [15], [17], [46]-[48], [63] n., [84], [115]-[118], [131], [149], [155] n., [210];
statistics as to, [130]-[131], [154], [155];
supplementing other resources, [144], [253]-[255];
weekly payment of, [128];
to widows, [101]-[104], [115], [154], [176]-[178];
to women, [7], [23], [36]-[38], [42], [83], [90]-[91], [101]-[104], [115], [154], [175]-[179], [258];
Outdoor Relief Friendly Societies Act (1904), [254], [255] n.;
----Relief Prohibitory Order (1844), [23], [25] n., [26], [29], [30], [31], [32], [36], [40], [42], [43], [46], [49], [54], [83], [88], [90], [91], [100], [101], [102], [106], [130], [131], [132], [149], [153], [154], [155], [156], [241], [260], [261];
----Relief Regulation Order (1852), [23], [25] n., [27], [39], [41], [43], [46], [49], [88], [90]-[91], [100], [101], [102], [115], [128]-[130], [149], [154], [156], [158]-[159], [171], [175], [232], [241], [261];
Overlapping, [293];
in Scotland,[343]-[346], [349], [354]-[355];
Overseers, [5], [12], [13], [14], [86], [131];
Owen, Sir Hugh, [167];
Paget, Mr. R. H., M.P., [253] n.;
Parental responsibility, [306]-[307], [358];
Parish Apprentices Act, [17];
"Particular orders," [21];
Pashley, Mr. Robert, Q.C., [133] n.
Pauper Inmates Discharge and Regulation Act, [172], [173] n., [244] n.;
Pauperism, statistics of, [103], [150] n., [232] n.;
connection between disease and, [221];
Paupers Conveyance Expenses Act, [89] n.;
Pell, Mr. Albert, M.P., [153] n.;
Pensions, attachment of, in repayment of cost of relief, [20];
to aged, [266]-[267], [271];
----Act (1908), [20] n.;
Phelps, Rev. L. R., [282]-[283];
Phthisis, how dealt with by voluntary agencies, [308];
by Local Health Authority, [309];
order of Local Government Board for Scotland as to, [344], [345], [352];
Playfair, Dr. Lyon (Lord Playfair), [137] n.;
Police, [147];
service of, as assistant relieving officers, [95], [98], [98] n., [99], [173];
administration of relief to vagrants by, [100];
Poor Law Acts Amendment Act (1834), [1], [2], [11]-[20], [21]-[22], [33], [46], [50], [51], [54], [77], [85]-[87], [321];
----areas, list of, [321]-[342];
cost of, [v];
----Royal Commission on (1832-1834), [1], [2]-[11], [85]-[87];
(1905-1909), [274]-[319],[343]-[363];
----attempt to restrict operations of, [145]-[146];
revival of public interest in, [147]-[148];
----(Apprentices) Act, [113] n.;
----Board, [25] n., [88]-[146];
establishment of, [86], [87];
made permanent, [146];
abolition of, [130], [146], [147];
----Certified Schools Act, [128] n.;
----Commissioners, [21]-[87], [95], [99], [140], [141].
See also Poor Law Inquiry Commissioners;
Poor Law Conferences, [151], [152]-[153];
----Inquiry Commissioners, [159]; Report of, [1]-[11], [12], [19], [21], [22], [27], [33], [36], [42], [46], [49], [50], [51], [52], [54], [55], [57], [59], [74], [75], [82]-[83], [84]-[85], [88], [95], [106], [112], [115], [118], [121], [128], [131], [141], [148], [160], [210], [229] n., [232], [236], [239], [242], [256], [257], [258], [259], [262], [263], [267], [268];
----Loans Act, [185] n.i;
----Schools. See Schools, Poor Law
----(Schools) Act, [108] n.;
Poor Relief, Committee of House of Commons on, [97], [117];
of House of Lords on, [174]
Preston, Mr. J. W., [215] n.;
Preston-Thomas, Mr. H., v., [179] n., [216], [221] n., [225]-[226], [246] n.
Prevention, different meanings of, [308]
----of destitution, [346]-[349]
----of Cruelty to Children Acts, [180]-[181], [184]
Principles of 1834, [1], [11], [36], [82]-[87], [88], [91], [148], [149], [151], [164], [256]-[262], [267], [269], [270], [271], [272];
abandonment of by L.G.B., [237]-[273];
repudiation of by Royal Commission of 1905-1909, [275]
Privy Council, General Rules of Central Authority disallowable by, [21];
Committee of, on Education, [107] n., [109] n.;
public health service of, [146]
Provident dispensaries. See Dispensaries
----sick clubs, [48]
Public Assistance Authority, only for the undeserving, [282]-[283];
argument for and against, [350]-[363]
Public Health Acts, [213] n., [219]-[220]
----Authorities, [92], [94], [213], [262];
service of Guardians as, in rural districts, [212] n., [219]-[220];
medical service of, [219]-[221]
Quatt School, [113]
Quinine, supply of, [117]
"Rate in aid of wages," [27], [37], [41]-[42], [102]
Ratepayers, consent of required, [19], [54]
Rathbone, Mr. W., [120]
Rawlinson, Sir R., [93] n., [94] n.
Relatives, contributions from, [126], [150], [152], [229], [261]
Relief in kind, [4], [25]
----on loan, [10]-[11], [16], [20], [143], [153], [176], [183]-[184], [251]-[253]
----works, for unemployed, [90], [92]-[94], [164]-[169], [172]
Relieving officer, [96], [103], [119], [128], [145], [157], [173], [199], [209], [214], [217], [231], [252];
Remand children. See Children on remand
Rent, payment of for paupers, prohibited, [25] n., [123]
Revising barristers, [217] n.
"Revolvers," [244]
Ritchie, Lord, [166], [200] n., [203], [204] n., [237] n.
Röntgen rays, [218] n.
Roscoe, Sir Henry, [94]
Salt, Mr., [290] n.
Salvation Army, [171]
Sanitary Act (1868), [220] n.
Sanitation, [123] n., [266], [267], [271]
Scattered Homes for Children, [185]-[187], [191], [258]
School districts, Act for, [107]-[108];
combination of parishes into, [16];
in Metropolis, [108], [186]
Schoolmasters for pauper children, [73], [107]-[109], [113]
Schools, certified, 111, [147], [185], [195], [241], [255], [258]
----District, [16], [45], [108], [111]-[112], [133], [185]-[188], [193], [264]
----industrial, [187], [241], [262]
----maintenance of, for children on out-relief, [104], [105] n.
"Schools for Mothers," [310]
----separate Poor Law, [16], [45], [107]-[114], [133], [185]-[188], [190], [193]-[195], [243], [264]
----workhouse, [10], [16], [113], [185], [193]
Sclater-Booth, Mr., [208], [210]
Scotland, Minority Report for,[343]-[363];
overlapping in, [344];
proposed introduction of Principle of Less Eligibility into, [357]-[358];
application of Minority Report to, [361]-[363]
Scottish National Committee to Promote the Break-up of the Poor Law,[343]
Senior, Mr. Nassau, [282]
Sick in 1834 Report, [6]-[8], [84], [210];
almost ignored in orders of Central Authority, [82];
asylum districts formed for, [89], [121], [161], [215];
attendance on and nursing of, [67], [136], [146], [160], [211]-[219], [242]-[243], [262];
beer for, [218];
compulsory removal of, to workhouse, [209]-[210];
definition of, [211];
detention of, [268];
deterrence abandoned with regard to, [217], [261]-[263];
dietary for, [68]-[69], [138], [242];
disfranchisement of, [217], [264];
domiciliary treatment of, [6]-[8], [15]-[17], [46]-[48], [63], [84]-[85], [115]-[119], [131], [143], [149]-[153], [155], [207]-[211], [229], [251]-[252];
Mr. Goschen's proposed gratuitous treatment of, [207]-[208], [219], [266];
use of hospitals for, [49], [63];
illustrated books for, [218];
institutional treatment of, [47]-[49], [56], [62]-[63], [67]-[69], [71], [85], [116]-[123], [133]-[134], [136], [138], [146], [150], [160], [207]-[208], [211]-[219], [236], [242]-[243], [258], [261]-[263];
separate institutions for, [160], [211]-[219], [236], [242], [262]-[263];
members of friendly societies, [48];
under Metropolitan Asylums Board, [212]-[213], [216], [243];
nursing of outdoor, [210], [264]; out-relief to, [6]-[8], [15]-[17], [46]-[48], [63], [84]-[85], [115]-[119], [131], [143], [149]-[153], [155], [207]-[211], [229], [251]-[252];
Principle of Curative Treatment applied to, [263]-[264];
Principle of Less Eligibility not applicable to, [3], [117]-[118], [121]-[122], [212], [215], [261]-[263];
Principle of National Uniformity not applied to, [258];
under Public Health Authorities, [219]-[221];
relief on loan to, [143], [251]-[252];
statistics of, [89], [122], [216];
suggested free medical attendance for, [207]-[208], [219], [266];
tea for, [218];
treatment of, in cholera panic, [116], [119];
in workhouses, [47]-[49], [56], [62]-[63], [67]-[69], [71], [85], [116]-[123], [133]-[134], [136], [138], [146], [150], [160], [207]-[208], [211]-[219], [236], [242]-[243], [258], [261]-[263]
"Sixpenny Doctor," [118]
Smart, Professor W., [94] n.
Smith, Dr. E., [134] n., [135] n., [137], [235] n., [242] n.
"Special Orders," [21]-[30], [51], [69]
Spencer, Mrs. F. H., [ix]
Sprigge, Mr. S. Squire, [117] n., [132] n.
Stansfeld, Mr., [148], [151], [208]
Stevens, Mr., [37]
Stone-breaking or pounding as task, [75], [157], [161], [246]
Stoneyards, [84], [157]-[158]
"Sudden or urgent necessity," [13], [29], [37], [42], [60], [214] n., [252]
Sunday Schools, children sent to, [191]
Surgical appliances, [264]
Tea, [69], [139], [238]-[240]
Test workhouse, [159]-[164], [170], [243], [270], [358]-[359]
Tobacco, [237]-[239]
Tools, provision of, [25], [144]
Torrens, Mr. W. T. M'Cullagh, [94] n.
Town Councils, relief by, [90], [92]-[94], [167]
Training ships, [112]
Trollope, Sir John, [129]
Tufnell, Mr. E. Carleton, [45] n., [108] n., [264]
Underfed children. See Children
Unemployed, the, [90], [92]-[96], [98]-[99], [148]-[172], [164]-[169], [250], [257], [261]-[262];
in Scotland, [356]-[361];
how the Majority Report deals with, [275]-[279], [282], [291];
how the Minority Report
deals with, [306], [317], [358]-[360].
See Able-bodied
Unemployed Workmen Act (1905), [169], [250], [257]-[258], [261], [297], [312]-[313], [317];
in Scotland, [344]
Unions, list of, [321]-[342]
Universal Provision, Principle of, [263], [266]-[272];
in Majority Report, [277];
in Minority Report, [298]-[299]
Unsound mind, persons of, [49]-[50], [62]-[63], [80], [123]-[127], [133], [138], [143], [146], [188], [221]-[228], [242], [268], [270], [279], [297]-[299], [312];
in Scotland, [354]-[355], [362]
Vaccination, [266]-[267]
Vagrancy, Departmental Committee on, [174], [312]
Vagrant Acts, [14], [34], [77], [81], [89], [184], [244]
Vagrants, [6], [13]-[14], [33]-[36], [62], [64], [80], [89], [95]-[100], [133], [171]-[174], [257], [259], [262], [266]-[267], [281], [288], [297], [312];
in 1834 Report, [6], [13]-[14], [259];
in Departmental Committee Report of 1904-1906, [174], [312];
in Majority Report, [281], [288];
in Minority Report, [297];
in Scotland, [344];
Acts as to, [13]-[14], [34], [77], [81]-[89], [184], [244];
orders as to, [36];
asylums for, [14], [35];
casual wards for, [64], [133], [259];
classification of, [62], [64];
detention of, [14], [35], [88], [95]-[96], [100], [172]-[174], [257]-[259], [267];
dietary for, [36], [98]-[99];
discrimination, policy of, [95]-[99], [172], [174], [259];
labour colonies for, [171];
Principle of Curative Treatment not applied to, [266];
Principle of Less Eligibility adhered to, [172], [257], [259], [266];
Principle of National Uniformity aimed at, [257], [259];
task of work for, [14], [33], [35], [95]-[96], [99], [172]-[173], [257], [259].
See also Casual Wards
Vestries, [10], [12]; Metropolitan, [166], [168], [213]
Vestry of Liverpool, [112], [120], [146], [237]
Villiers, Mr. C. P., [134] n., [140], [142]
Visiting Committee. See Committee, Visiting
Voluntary Agencies, sphere of; co-operation of, [144]-[146], [255];
proper sphere of, [307]-[311]
----Aid Committee in Majority Report, [281];
purpose of, [282]
Wakley, Mr. Thomas, [117], [132]
Watts, Dr. John, [94] n.
Weekly, Mr. John, [188] n.
"Weighting the alternatives," [318]
Wethered, Mr., [234] n.
Widows, [6]-[7], [12], [15]-[16], [23], [36]-[38], [40], [42], [79], [85], [101]-[104], [115], [130], [149], [153], [176]-[179], [183], [207], [229], [241];
in 1834 Report, [6]-[7], [36];
with illegitimate children, [37], [115];
statistics as to, [103], [176]-[179]
Wilson, Miss, [120] n.
Wives, [6]-[7], [12], [15], [36]-[42], [83], [89], [101], [143], [175]-[178];
of absentee husbands, [6]-[7], [15], [36], [40]-[42], [89], [101], [175]-[176];
accompanying husbands, [6], [36], [39], [41], [83], [178];
deserted, [6]-[7], [12], [15], [40], [175]-[176];
of prisoners, [176]-[178];
of soldiers and sailors, [6]-[7], [15], [36], [41]-[42], [176], [178];
test work for, [39]-[40]
Wodehouse, Mr., [103], [148]
Women, [6]-[7], [9], [15]-[16], [23]-[24], [27], [29], [30]-[31], [36]-[43], [64]-[65], [67], [74], [76], [79], [83]-[85], [89]-[91], [100]-[104], [134], [136], [138], [143], [149], [152], [154], [162], [174]-[179], [196], [254], [257], [258], [261];
in 1834 Report, [6]-[7], [9];
whether ever "able-bodied," [3], [6], [23]-[24], [27], [30], [36], [83];
dietary for, [138];
discrimination as to character among, [27], [42], [64]-[65], [76], [134], [136], [258];
oakum-picking for, [162], [164];
and Principle of Less Eligibility, [261];
statistics as to, [100]-[101], [178]-[179];
rate in aid of wages to, [37]-[38], [42], [100]-[102], [254];
task of work for, [31], [42], [162], [164], [178];
in the workhouse, [6], [9], [43], [64]-[65], [67], [74], [76], [79], [134], [136], [196].
See also Wives and Widows
Workhouse, the, in 1834 Report, [5]-[19];
under the Poor Law Commissioners, [21]-[87];
under the Poor Law Board, [95]-[146];
under the Local Government Board, [152]-[240];
able-bodied in, [5], [83]-[85], [128], [235], [242];
admission to, [60]-[61], [71], [80], [247];
aged in, [5], [9], [83], [219], [222], [235], [237], [240]-[242], [258];
alcohol in, [19], [68], [218];
children in, [5], [7], [83], [106], [113], [181], [222], [236], [258];
detention in, [19], [80], [82], [164], [209]-[210], [268], [244]-[245], [276], [289]-[292];
dietary of, [67]-[70], [137]-[139], [171], [237], [240], [242], [245]-[246], [248]-[249];
punishments in, [19], [76], [82];
religion in, [19], [77]-[79], [82];
sick in, [8], [62], [116], [118]-[119], [122], [134], [136]-[137], [209]-[210], [216], [219], [222], [235], [242], [245], [277];
smoking in, [74];
statistics as to, [45], [132], [140], [235], [242];
vagrants in, [95]-[97]
----system, the, [11], [256], [261], [271]
----test, the, [33]-[34], [52]-[53], [132], [150], [154]-[156], [158]-[159], [165], [258];
modified, [158]-[159], [170]-[171]
Workmen's Compensation Act (1900), [177] n.
FOOTNOTES
[1] See, for instance, The English Poor Law System, by Paul Felix Aschrott, translated by H. Preston Thomas, 1888 and 1902; La Loi des pauvres et la société anglaise, par E. Chevalier, 1895; The Better Administration of the Poor Law, by Sir William Chance, Bart., 1895; The Public Relief of the Poor, by T. Mackay, 1901; L'Assistance légale et la lutte contre le pauperisme en Angleterre, par G. E. de Froment, 1905.
[2] The Poor Law, by the Rev. T. W. Fowle, 1881; The English Poor Laws, by Miss Sophia Lonsdale, 1897 and 1902; Our Treatment of the Poor, by Sir Wm. Chance, Bart, 1899; The Public Relief of the Poor, by T. Mackay, 1901.
[3] History of the English Poor Law, vol. iii., from 1834 to the present time, by T. Mackay, 1899.