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Excerpt from The State and the Poor

Even an old hand at such puzzles may therefore be pardoned for feeling an apprehension that mistakes may have crept into the following pages, especially as they have been completed in odd moments of leisure snatched from a busy life.

It should be added that, as far as possible, the whole of this memorandum has been brought up to date to the end of the year 1913.

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Excerpt from The State and the Poor

No one who has had any practical experience as a Poor Law Administrator of the 350 or 400 statutes, of the 5000 judicial decisions interpreting those statutes, and of the Poor Law and Local Government Board orders (which if printed with those statutes would cover more than 2500 octavo pages, and with all of which he is supposed to be personally acquainted), would undertake to write a book, still less a short book, on them à cœur leger.

As a matter of fact, the following pages were drafted as a memorandum for the information of a political friend, and only profess to indicate some of the factors in the most pressing Poor Law problems. They would never have been submitted to the public gaze but for pressure applied to me by competent judges, who assured me that something of the kind was urgently needed, and but for the kindly assistance and supervision promised me by Mr Charles Booth and others.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.