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Observations on the Table of Cases calling for Relief.
A word or two may be of use with a
view to the comparison that will naturally be
formed betwixt the Table here in question
under the name of the Pauper Population
Table and the other Table herewith which accompanies
it under the name of A — Table of
Cases calling for Relief: and here as
natural a question is — why thus make two Tables?
— why not give the matter of both in one?
The reason is Answer — Shall In the Pauper Population
Table all such distinctions classes are noted — and
such only, of the numbers of which afforded
any hope of their being to be collected. To
enter into A minute investigation of the difference
between two Tables framed for different purposes,
would be of any little use: the general account
of the matter is this. — The classes stock the where of which numbers
of which are here respectively enquired after, [+] [+] (The stock classes specified in the Population Table) compose what may
be considered as the permanent stock of the
Pauper community. The classes stock where cases,
In the Table of Cases calling for relief is the comprises are as designed to be comprised, every class
and every individual [+]2 [+]2 that can at every ever trace enter into the composition of the general mass.
of which which that the Pauper community
can at any time be composed: the
coming and going stock as well as the permanent:
the able-bodied as well as the infirm: those who [+]3
[+]3 under the existing order of things
come in for casual relief as well as those who are constantly
in the Poor House, or constantly upon the list of Pensioners, living at their own houses.