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EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORTS OF THE ROYAL COMMISSION |
IV-216. SENIOR, Nassau W. et al. [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. 1837. 432p. Original cloth, respined. From the Library of the ministry of Housing and Local Government with Bookplate.
GOLDSMITHS 30080. First published in 1832.
In 1832 the Government announced that it had decided to appoint 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 Nassau W. Senior, a chancery barrister of fourty-two, was appointed along with Edwin Chadwick.
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