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3.4 Royal Commission Enquiry into the operation of the Poor Laws. 1832,…
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The protection of Urban ratepayers from a sudden surge in demand from rural migrants prior to obtaining their employment.
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-Separate workhouses were to be provided for Aged, Infirm, able-bodied men and able-bodied women.
-Parishes should group into unions for the purpose of providing these workhouses.
-All relief outside workhouses should stop and conditions should be so bad that no one would willingly enter them.
-A new central authority should be established to make and enforce regulations on the workhouse.
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-Reduce the cost of providing relief for the poor
-Ensuring only the destitute would receive relief
-Provide a national system for relief.
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A central authority should be set up to supervise the implementation and regulate the administration of the Poor Law.
Parishes were to be grouped together to form Poor Law Unions.
Each Poor Law Union was to provide a workhouse in which inmates would live in conditions worse than the outside.
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George Nicholls, A Retired Sea Captain and had been a radical overseer.
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-26 assistant commissioners.
-They were sent out to talk to the poor, attend vestry meetings and magistrates sessions.
-The assistants were hardworking and received a daily allowance.
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