Homes of the London Poor

I mentioned in my summary of our plan of operations, our custom of using some of the necessary, yet not immediately wanted repairs, as a means of affording work to the tenants i...

The success of the plan does not depend entirely upon the houses being the property of the superintendent. I would urge people, if possible, to purchase the houses of which they...

This landlord was a tradesman in a small way of business--not a cruel man, except in so far as variableness of dealing is cruelty; but he was a man without capital to spend on i...

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It is true that where an energetic body of visitors is gathered together under able and vigilant guidance--where their districts are small, their visits frequent, their written...

The advantages of thus keeping district books are very great. It is of course not unusual for those who visit amongst the poor to keep written records of one kind or another. Bu...

I may perhaps here point out that there is one small addition to the system, which, though it would be of no direct advantage to the Poor Law authorities, would be of great serv...