The Poor Law of Lunacy
The Poor Law of Lunacy

Author: Peter Bartlett

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1999-10-01

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 0718501047

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Most historians portray 19th-century county asylums as the exclusive realm of the asylum doctor, but Bartlett (law, U. of Nottingham) argues that they should be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent had remarkably little power. He examines the place of the county asylum movement in the midcentury poor law debates and its legal and administrative regimes. Taking the Leicestershire asylum as a case study, he explores the role of poor law officers in admission processes, and relations between them and the staff and inspectors.

The Politics of Vaccination
The Politics of Vaccination

Author: Deborah Brunton

Publisher: University Rochester Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781580460361

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A detailed examination of the political forces and events that shaped smallpox vaccination policy in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland during the nineteenth century.

English Poor Law Policy
English Poor Law Policy

Author: Sidney Webb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-20

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0429748868

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First published in 1910, this volume is a dispassionate analysis of the changes in and the various aspects of official policy towards pauperism from the ‘Revolution of 1834’ to the Majority and Minority Reports of 1909. In their preface to this volume the Webbs wrote: "What obscured the history was the manner in which masses of heterogeneous facts were heaped together. To read, one after another, these complicated Orders and lengthy Reports, each dealing with all kinds of paupers and various methods of relief, was but to accumulate confusion. They resembled a heap of geological conglomerates which could not be assayed until they had been broken up in such a way as to sort the different materials into separate homogeneous parcels". This book succeeds in presenting a masterly survey of this sector of the British social services on the eve of the foundation of the Welfare State, and completes the corpus of the Webbs on the Poor Law.

Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945
Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945

Author: R. Humphreys

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-10-31

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1403919518

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This volume challenges many widely held beliefs about the efficacy of the London Charity Organization Society. Politicians, social administrators, sociologists, economists, biographers and historians have been swayed by the strength of their propaganda. The Charity Organization Society continues to be used as an institutional model to illustrate the alleged advantages of voluntarism over state benefits. Poor Relief and Charity 1869-1945 exposes the misleading nature of many of its claims. It explains why they were shunned by other charities, treated with suspicion by parish clergy, disregarded by poor law guardians and seen as little different from the stigmatized poor law by those in need.