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1833
EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORTS OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM EDWIN CHADWICK |
132. CHADWICK Edwin, SENIOR, Nassau W. Et. AI. [Administration and
Operation of the Poor Laws] Extracts from the information received by His Majesty's
Commissioners as to the administration and operation of the Poor-laws. Published by
Authority. London; B. Fellows. 1833. 432p. Original cloth, expertly recased.
SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM EDWIN CHADWICK TO D. WINE.
In 1832 it had decided on appointing a Royal Commission to investigate all over the
country the actual working of the Poor Laws and indicated its intention of undertaking
a reform of the entire system. To this Commission Edwin Chadwick together with
Nassau W. Senior, a chancery banister of forty-two, was appointed along with
various others. Both men were to some extent followers of Bentham. The assistant
commissioners on whose reports the Commission was mainly to rely visited about
three thousand parishes and townships between August and December 1832. Their
voluminous reports comprised no fewer than twenty-six folio volumes, all published
during 1834-1835, being by far the most extensive sociological survey that had at that
date ever been undertaken. This prodigious mass of material was digested and
arranged by Nassau Senior. The Cabinet was in a hurry for a results and Chadwick
and Senior was asked to pick out examples of the most glaring malpractices. These
extracts were published in 1833 in the present volume.
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