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or some other u charitable doctor" extra drugs and medical attendance . By a little management , he may avail himself at the same time of several obstetric charities—and be visited successively by Churchmen , Quakers , Independents , Wesley an Methodists , Calvinistic Methodists , Huntingtonians , —in fact , by the charitable associations connected with every church and chapel in the neighbourhood . 4 He now finds that his earnings are precarious—and that , even at their utmost amount , they are inadequate to the support of his increasing family . But his father ' s family was for years in the same circumstances—and was always saved by charity . To charity , then , he again has recourse . 4
He hears , that twice a year there is a parish gift of bread . From some vestryman , or from some other respectable parishioner , he obtains a ticket for a quartern loaf at Midsummer and at Christmas . There is also a parish gift of coals . By the same means he every Christmas gets a Back of coals . Indeed , by importuning several parishioners , and by giving to each of them a different address , or the same address with different names , he is sometimes so fortunate as to secure three sacks instead of one . On these periodical distributions he can confidently defend ; for most of the parishioners dispose of their annual tickets to the same poor persons from year to year , as a matter of course ; and others , who are more discriminate , invariably find , upon renewed inquiry , that their petitioners are in the same state of apparent indigence or destitution . Under these circumstances , our applicant soon comes to look upon his share of the parochial bounty as a legitimate and certain item in his yearly receipts . 4
But this is only a slight periodical relief . He wants more loaves and more coals , and he has the means of obtaining them . If the weather is severe , the " Spitalfields Association" is at work , and for months together distributes bread , coals , and potatoes . The " Soup Society , " also , is in operation , and provides him regularly with several quarts of excellent meat soup at a penny , or , sometimes , even at a halfpenny a quart . At all times several " Benevolent Societies" and 44 Pension Societies" are acting in the district ; and from these he receives food or pecuniary relief . He may apply , too , during the
temporary cessation of any of these charities , to the charitable associations of the different religious denominations—to the " District Visiting Society , ' * to the Independents' 4 i Visiting Society , " to the 44 Friend in Need Society , " to the " Stranger ' s Friend Society , " to Zion ' s Good Will Society . " He may even be lucky enough to get something from all of them . 4 If his bedding is bad , he gets the loan of a blanket from the 4 < Benevolent Society , " or from the 4 < Blanket Association ; " or he gets a blanket , a rug , and a pair of sheets from the Spitalfields Association . ' . ' The last of these charities supplies him with & flannel waistcoat for himself , and a . flannel petticoat for his wife . In one instance , it furnishes hi 9 wife and children with shoes and stockings . 4 Thus he proceeds from year to year with a charity to meet every exigency of health and sickness . The time at length arrives , when , either from the number of children born to him , under the kind superintendence of the 4 t JLying-in , " the i 4 Royal Maternity , " or the 44 Be-
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870 Poor Lawt and Paupers .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1833, page 370, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2616/page/10/
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