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CONTENTS
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Introduction v
Biographical Note ix
Preface xi
Social Study on Large Maps 1
Some Early History of Poor Relief in England 18
Some Early History of Poor Relief in Paris 38
Poor Relief in a West Country Village, 1786-1906 49
Notes from a Workhouse Examination Committee 55
Poor Law and Charity 71
Social Reform and the New Socialism 100
Democracy and Local Elections 117
The Reports of the Commissions of 1834 and 1909 132
The Minority Report: A Criticism (which has received no answer)  138
"The Slippery Slope" 172
The Psychology of Pauperism 184
Appendices:—
  The Relation of Legal Relief to Private Charity 193
  Some Recent Developments of Poor Relief 210

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