Letters on the Importance of the Rising Generation of the Laboring Part of Our Fellow-subjects: Being an Account of the Miserable State of the Infant Parish Poor; the Great Usefulness of the Hospital for Exposed and Deserted Young Children Properly Restricted; the Obligations of Parochial Officers; and an Historical Detail of the Whole Mortality of London and Westminster, from 1592 to this Time ...

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A. Millar and T. Cadell, 1767

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Pagina 95 - Majefty's juftices of the peace, and to be levied by diftrefs and fale of the goods and chattels...
Pagina 224 - One of His Majefty's Juftices of the Peace for the County of Middlefex, and for the City and Liberty of Weftminfter.
Pagina 165 - Hofpual, thoufand pounds, upon account, towards enabling the governors and guardians of the hofpital for the maintenance and education of expofed and deferted young children...
Pagina 93 - That nothing herein contained fhall extend, or be conftrued to extend, to...
Pagina 239 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Pagina 91 - Workhouse, or place provided for the maintenance of the poor, " with the times when they were received, their names, age, and whatever description relates to them as far as can be traced.
Pagina 123 - Parliament, and charged upon the firfl aids or fupplies to be granted in this feffion, for enabling the governors and guardians of the hofpital for the , maintenance and education of expofed and deferted young children...
Pagina 90 - ... of this act, all the infants under the age of four years, which, on the faid...
Pagina 153 - No child exceeding the age of two months will be taken in, nor such as have the evil, leprosy, or disease of the like nature, whereby the health of the other children may be endangered ; for the discovery whereof, every child is to be inspected as soon as it is brought, and the person who brings it is to come in at the outward door and ring a bell at the inward door, and not...
Pagina 91 - ... relating to them, agreeable to the titles and heads of the columns in the faid fchedules mentioned and fet forth.

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