Excerpt from English Local Government, Vol. 1: English Poor Law History<br><br>This volume deals with The Old Poor Law so drastically reformed in 1834 and it will be followed by another giving in detail the story of The Last Hundred Years of Poor Law Administration, down to 1927.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.