London and its teeming toilersWarren Hall and Lovilt, 1885 - 65 páginas |
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Página 40 - Page 15. § Page 40. Finally in summing up * : — ' Their lands which were confiscated at the Reformation as being held to superstitious uses were suffered to be redeemed only upon a representation that the rents were required for the relief of poverty and the promotion of education' Nothing could be more definite and precise than these statements. We turn to the notes for the authorities on which they are based. Will it be believed that this dogmatic assertion, reiterated again and again, and obviously...
Página 37 - Cloth workers'Company has promoted the establishment of Yorkshire College at Leeds, where instruction is given in the manufacture of woollen goods, and similar institutions at Bradford, Huddersfield, and other places. The City and Guilds of London Institute, for the advancement of technical education, has also been formed. There is a technical college at Finsbury and a central institution at South Kensington.
Página 39 - Scholastic and scientific subjects — -ie elementary education, secondary education, classical education, technical education, scientific research. 2. General public purposes — e,g, hospitals, picture galleries, museums, public libraries, public baths, parks and open spaces. 3. The improvement of workmen's dwellings, and where the companies represent trades, subsidies to the benefit societies of such trades.
Página 52 - ... which the causes might not be almost wholly set aside. Of the accidents to which they are especially liable the greater part, by far, are due to carelessness. " Of the diseases due to bad food and mere filth, to intemperance, to immorality — in so far as these are self-induced they might, by self-control and virtue be excluded. And with these scrofula, rickets, scurvy, and all the widespread defects related to them, might be greatly diminished.
Página 38 - ... the allocation of a portion of the corporate incomes of the companies to objects of acknowledged public utility...
Página 1 - Middlesex (exclusive of the City of London) and the surrounding parishes in the counties of Surrey, Kent, Essex, and Hertford, of which any part is within twelve miles from Charing Cross...
Página 39 - by a single one of the eighty odd companies which is not ostentatiously " advertised in every popular newspaper. Little do the public think that " this show of charity covers a mal-administration of trusts and a " reckless disregard of charitable intentions such as find no parallel. The " fact is, that in many cases these votes of money to charitable purposes " are neither more nor less than conscience money.
Página 34 - The extant regulations and accounts of the guilds show how this duty was carried into effect ; no doubt there was much selfindulgence and display, but there was also effective relief; the charities of the great London companies are a survival of a system which was once in full working in every market town, legislation Side by side with the organisations for the relief of real begging.
Página 47 - Department of the Committee of Council on Education, the number of persons who, during the year 1879, attended the schools and classes of science and art in connection with the Department...
Página 45 - The ordinary number of letters, &c. passing through the Central Office in a week is estimated at 13,500,000, and thus it appears that the correspondence during the Christmas week was increased by more than 100 per cent. To meet the pressure caused by this large addition upwards of 1,200 persons were temporarily employed, making the total number on duty in the Central Sorting Office over 8,000, and special mail trains were despatched from London to the provinces in advance of the usual night mails.