Observations on the Management of the Poor in Scotland: And Its Effects on the Health of the Great TownsWilliam Blackwood & Sons, 1840 - 123 стор. |
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Сторінка iv - Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
Сторінка 8 - Giles of Glasgow ; but I owe an apology to the metropolitan pandemonium for the comparison. A very extensive inspection of the lowest districts of other places, both here and on the Continent, never presented anything one-half so bad, either in intensity of pestilence, physical and moral, or in extent proportioned to the population.
Сторінка 14 - can exceed the cleanliness, the personal propriety, and the apparent comfort of the people of Holland. I did not see a house or a fence out of repair, or a garden that was not carefully cultivated.
Сторінка 43 - The labourers in the south of England are so accustomed to eat fine wheaten bread, that they will suffer themselves to be half starved before they will submit to live like the Scotch peasants. They might perhaps, in time, by the constant operation of the hard law of necessity, be reduced to live even like the lower classes of the Chinese, and the country would then with the same quantity of food support a greater population.
Сторінка 7 - The wynds in Glasgow comprise a fluctuating population of from 15,000 to 30,000 persons. This quarter consists of a labyrinth of lanes, out of which numberless entrances lead into small square courts, each with a dunghill reeking in the centre. Revolting as was the outward appearance of these places, I was little prepared for the filth and destitution within.
Сторінка 78 - I could not convey a just picture of the benevolence prevailing in the minds and hearts of the middling classes in Ireland ; but it is sufficiently proved by this, that the poor are almost supported exclusively by them, although they form a class not over numerous, and subject to great pressure ; still of the million and a-half or two millions now expended to support the Irish poor, nearly the entire falls on the farmers and other industrious classes.
Сторінка 35 - The nucleus of crime in St Giles's, consists of about six streets, riddled with courts, alleys, passages, and dark entries, all leading to rooms and smaller tenements, crowded with a population existing in all the filth attendant upon improvidence, crime, and profligacy, as if the inhabitants, by common consent, deem themselves only ' tenants-at-will,' till the gallows or the hulks should require them.
Сторінка 8 - ... (visited at night), we found a whole lair of human beings littered along the floor, sometimes fifteen and twenty, some clothed and some naked ; men, women, and children, huddled promiscuously together. Their bed consisted of a layer of musty straw intermixed with rags.
Сторінка iv - For the poor shall never cease out of the land,: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
Сторінка 10 - It is not asserted that destitution is a cause adequate to the production of fever (although in some circumstances I believe it may become such); nor that it is the sole cause of its extension. What we are sure of is, that it is a cause of the rapid diffusion of contagious fever, and one of such peculiar power and efficacy, that its existence may always be presumed, when we see fever prevailing in a large community to an unusual extent. The manner in which deficient nourishment, want of employment,...