This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...he is better clothed, and better lodged, and sleeps better, and works less time, and does less altogether. When a poor family has once been driven into the workhouse, the proof they give of its being better is, that they never can be got out of it. There are very few instances of their getting away. I have heard them ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 Excerpt: ...he is better clothed, and better lodged, and sleeps better, and works less time, and does less altogether. When a poor family has once been driven into the workhouse, the proof they give of its being better is, that they never can be got out of it. There are very few instances of their getting away. I have heard them express their regret, when they first come in, that they had not come in sooner. I have heard this, too, from people whom I had before heard pitying the poor people in the workhouse, and hoping they should never come to such a state of things themselves. Amongst several who have been striving to keep out of the workhouse, when one part of them have been driven in, their representations of its superior comfort have induced the rest to come in. This was the case at Gosport. " Is your dietary at Lambeth much higher than at Gosport 1--Considerably higher. In Lambeth they have beer, and butter, and sugar; they have also more meat, and the women have as much as the men. They have five feasts in the year: a pea-feast, a bean-feast, two mutton-feasts, and a plum-pudding feast. In Newington, Mr. Mott was bound to give salmon once when in season, and mackerel once." Mr. Charles Mott, who has been many years concerned in the management of several other very populous parishes, and is now the contractor for the maintenance of the poor of Lambeth workhouse, illustrates this state of things by other facts which he adduces in his examination subsequently given in this selection. Mr. Joseph John Hubbard, who has been accustomed to transact the parochial business of six parishes in the city of London, in speaking of attractions of workhouses, gave the following instance of their force: --"I know one instance where a stout ablebodied man, who had be...
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