Excerpt from A History of the English Poor Law, Vol. 3: From 1834 to the Present Time; Being a Supplementary Volume to "a History of the English Poor Law" By Sir George Nicholls, K. C. B., Poor Law Commissioner and Secretary to the Poor Law Board The result of these various considerations has been that this volume has assumed more or less the form of an independent work, and the reader is asked to regard it as a supplement, rather than as a continuation, of Sir George Nicholls' History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.