Pennsylvania State Reports

Pennsylvania State Reports
Author: Pennsylvania. Supreme Court
Publisher:
Total Pages: 730
Release: 1850
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

Containing cases decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Binns's Justice

Binns's Justice
Author: John Binns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1840
Genre: Justices of the peace
ISBN:

Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-century City

Welfare and the Poor in the Nineteenth-century City
Author: Priscilla Ferguson Clement
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1985
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780838632161

The changes in the relative importance of humanitarianism, social control, and economy in the Philadelphia welfare system from 1800 to 1854 are examined by the author in regard to the management of public outdoor relief, indoor aid in the Alms-house, public and private assistance to needy children, and private charitable aid to impoverished adults.