Prepared for the commissioners whose report produced England’s New Poor Law of 1834, the economist Nassau Senior’s survey summarises how foreign countries dealt with vagrants, the able-bodied destitute, the aged, the sick, children, the disabled and the insane. It draws on replies from consuls and officials across Europe and America, including accounts of pauper colonies and labour schemes.
A key primary source for historians of welfare, poverty and the Victorian Poor Law. Download the free EPUB.