Poor relief in different parts of Europe, a selection of essays tr. from 'Das Armenwesen und die Armengesetzgebung in europäischen Staaten', ed. by A. Emminghaus, revised [and tr.] by E.B. Eastwick1873 |
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Aargau able-bodied poor administration allowed alms amount appointed assistance asylums Austria average beggars begging Belgium belonging Berlin Bernese Jura bound Bremen Bureaux de bienfaisance Burgomaster Canton cent charitable institutions Charité Church claim to relief commune cost council deacons decree Dépôts distress district duty of relief ecclesiastical Elberfeld establishments existing expense Foundling Hospitals Frumentarii funds gifts grants Hither Pomerania hospitals income inhabitants kind labour latter means ment mentioned Mont de piété number of persons number of poor obligation officers ordinary Income orphans out-door Paris parish partly paupers police poor commissions Poor Institute Poor Law Poor Law authorities Poor Legislation poor person Poor-directory poor-fund poor-houses poor-relief poor-tax poverty principles provinces Prussia public relief receipts received Relief and Poor relief given residence Rhine Province settlement sick statistics Sweden Switzerland taxes tion town West Prussia workhouse
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Page 13 - this fact alone may be considered a great gain, for abundance of means is the greatest danger of all in the relief of the poor." * From what has been said regarding the failure of the church as an almoner, it must not be inferred that its influence was wholly perverse and mischievous. On the contrary, even Lecky, whose opinion as to the good effects of the secularization of the monastic properties in England has been already...
Page 4 - Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these, ye did it unto me ' ? Christians are those who have Christ's spirit, as I think, and sacrifice themselves to save others.
Page 258 - And, living as he did at the end of the seventeenth and in the first half of the eighteenth century...
Page 4 - ... principle which was so distinctly asserted in the Jewish legislation, that the claim of the poor on the rich is not only a duty of religion, but a right of law. The practice of the rest of Europe comes from the idea that the gift of alms is an act of Christian love, to be exercised without distinction of persons, even as God makes his sun to shine on the just and on the unjust. From the latter train of thought has resulted throughout Roman Catholic Europe the habit of indiscriminate almsgiving,...
Page 2 - Hamburgh, that there have been three stages in dealing with the poor. From the earliest times of Christianity till late in the Middle Ages the care of the poor was left to the Church alone ; after that it became a matter of State police, and the method employed was at first one of simple repression ; finally, the municipalities undertook the task of relieving the Church and the police of these duties, or of completing their labours.
Page 133 - Fry believed then, as she believed and wrote ten years later in her little book on prisons, that 'they ought to be taught to read, write and cipher, as well as to make a ready and profitable use of the needle.' Within a month of the start of the experiment, the Lord Mayor of Lon-don, the Sheriffs, and several of the Aldermen came down to Newgate by invitation to see how it was getting on. 'Many of those,' says Buxton, 'knew Newgate, had visited it a few months...
Page 224 - ... the last two or three years an attempt has been made to instruct the deaf and dumb with the other children in the national schools.
Page 19 - Sleswick-Holst«in, the right to relief in a commune is acquired by birth : also by 15 years' residence after the age of 18, the latter mode of acquiring it being competent to foreigners. In Saxony a settlement is acquired by birth, express gift, or purchase of a house and 5 years
Page 18 - ... claim of relief, and the incidence of taxation. In the Netherlands, a title to relief is acquired by birth, or by having inhabited the same place uninterruptedly for six years. In Sweden, such title as the law allows is conferred by inhabitancy in the parish or town, if the applicant, being above 45 years of age, has been entered on the list of tax-payers.
Page 18 - Ncrway, the right is acquired by a residence of two years; in Denmark, of five years. By the Prussian poor-law of 1842, the duty of relief falls on the commune of which the person applying was expressly admitted a member, in which he has acquired a regular abode, which he has occupied for a year, or in which he has been living for three years after attaining full age. In Sleswick-Holst«in, the right to relief in a commune is acquired by birth : also by 15 years...