Serious considerations on the salutary design of the Act of Parliament for a regular, uniform register of the parish-poor in all the parishes within the bills of mortality : pointing out the humanity and utility which will attend the due execution thereof, -- the inefficacy of past attempts relating to such infants -- the necessity of sending them to nurse at a proper distance in the country, -- the pecuniary value of a life to the community, -- the duty of repairing as much as possible the loss created by war, -- and the importance of increasing our numbers at home and abroad as the truest means of supporting our independency as a nation : to which are added some thoughts on the usefulness of ventilation, the pernicious effects of bad air, narrow streets and ruined houses, the advantages of cleanliness and decent cloathing in workhouses and the honorable esteem in which parish-officers ought to be held when they discharge their duty : in two letters addressed to a churchwarden.
by: Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786
Published: (1762)
