[530] Mr. Ritchie to deputation as to children in workhouses, see Local Government Chronicle, 17th December 1887, p. 1058.
[531] Circular of 16th January 1891, in Twentieth Annual Report, 1890-91, p. 206; Local Government Board to Poplar Board of Guardians, 21st January 1891 (see for the action thereon of Boards of Guardians, MS. archives, Poplar Board of Guardians, January 1891).
[532] Circular of 14th November 1892, in Twenty-second Annual Report, 1892-3, p. 38.
[533] Circulars of 27th March and 30th September 1893, Twenty-third Annual Report, 1893-4, pp. lxiv-lxv; Board of Trade Report on Agencies and Methods for dealing with the Unemployed, 1893 (C. 7182), pp. 187-206.
[534] Twenty-fourth Annual Report, 1894-5, pp. lxxi-lxxiii. The local authorities were taking action before the Circular was sent; see, for instance, MS. Minutes, Bradford Board of Guardians, 4th February 1895, showing that they had decided on a deputation to the town council on 23rd January; and that the town council, on 25th January, had agreed to find work in clearing away snow.
[535] Ibid. p. lxxiii; First, Second, and Third Reports of the Select Committee on Distress from Want of Employment, 1895.
[536] Twenty-fourth Annual Report, 1894-5, p. lxxiv.
[537] Third Report of Select Committee on Distress from Want of Employment, 1895, p. 560.
[538] The Lord Mayor of Manchester, in reply to deputation from the Chorlton Board of Guardians, 1895; see Second Report of Committee on Distress from Want of Employment, 1895, p. 54.
[539] Third Report of Committee on Distress from Want of Employment, 1895, p. v. The Committee also recommended the abolition of the penalty of disfranchisement, on persons in receipt of poor relief, so far as "the deserving man forced to become dependent on public aid" was concerned (Ibid.).