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State Intervention at the Local Level: The New Poor Law in Lancashire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2010

E. C. Midwinter
E. C. Midwinter
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Ethel Wormald College of Education, Liverpool
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The Historical Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , 1967 , pp. 106 - 112
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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7 These figures are calculated from information gathered from the Annual Reports of the Poor Law Commission. The population figures are principally for 1831 and the expenditure figures are mainly for the year ending 31 March 1838.

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