The next communication is upon workhouses of united hundreds; an inquiry of no small importance at the present moment.The mode of their management, and the objections[1] and inconveniences that attend them, even under the best regulations and management, are stated with clearness and perspicuity.The rules of a spinning school, established with success at Oakham, upon the principles of Count Rumford, are the next in order;—a school, where the poor attend with pleasure and regularity, and thankfully receive the benefit of a cheaper and more nourishing diet, supplied to them at a very small price;—and for these reasons simply—because they are allowed to continue free agents, and to retain an option on the subject; and because they have the whole of their earnings inviolably at their own disposal.May the example be speedily followed in other parts of England!
- ↑ See Sir William Young's Observations, published in 1788; and his Considerations on the subject of Poorhouses and Workhouses, 1796.
