The second annual report of the managers of the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, in the City of New-York : read and accepted, December 29, 1819. To which is added, an appendix, on the subject of pauperism.

  • Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in the City of New York.
Date:
1820
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Credit: The second annual report of the managers of the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism, in the City of New-York : read and accepted, December 29, 1819. To which is added, an appendix, on the subject of pauperism. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    investigated with ardor and perseverance; nor truth be disregarded, when pursued with vigor and constancy. When this society commenced its operations, the first great consideration of the managers, was, to ascertain the sources of the evils to be corrected ; and secondly^ the remedies to be relied upon. These have already been pointed out in the reports submitted to the society, at former periods. In the present report it is designed to examine— FIRST, The duties which urged themselves upon the attention of the managers during the last year, beginning in October, 1818: SECONDLY, The remedies which have been pur- sued for the prevention of pauperism; and, THIRDLY, The present causes of pauperism, and the remedies still to be embraced by the institution. First. The sources of pauperism which have attract- ed the attention of the managers, during the past year, may be included under the following heads: 1. IGNORANCE, 2. INTEMPERANCE, 3. PAWN-BROKERS, 4. LOTTERIES, 5. CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS, 6. HOUSES OF BAD FAME, 7. GAMBLING HOUSES. It is unnecessary for the managers to enter into a minute detail of the intrinsic evils which flow from the sources of poverty, vice and wretchedness, here enu- merated. The manner in which they have been treat- ed or mitigated, is the great object before them. 1. IGNORANCE.—-From the report of the sub- committee, appointed on this subject, made to the ma-