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119.: Poor Relief [1] 17 JULY, 1868 - John Stuart Mill, The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXVIII - Public and Parliamentary Speeches Part I November 1850 - November 1868 [1850]

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Part of: Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, in 33 vols.

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Poor Relief [1]

17 JULY, 1868

PD, 3rd ser., Vol. 193, cols. 1424–5. Reported in The Times, 18 July, p. 8, from which the response is taken. Mill spoke in Committee on “A Bill to Make Further Amendments in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor,” 31 Victoria (23 June, 1868), PP, 1867–68, IV, 167–78. The discussion was of Clause 3, which allowed the Poor Law Board to appoint officers if the Guardians failed to do so.

mr. j. stuart mill said, that the grand principle of improvement in Poor Law administration was not to strengthen the power of the guardians but of the Poor Law Board. (Hear.) The guardians frequently refused to perform their obvious local duties, to the injury of the sick, the poor, and the lunatics, and to the oppression of the medical profession, which performed the most important duties to these suffering and unprotected persons. In all these matters the central authority was more to be depended upon than the local Boards. He preferred the Amendment of his honourable Friend (Mr. P.A. Taylor),1 but, as the Committee had negatived it, he should give his strong support to the clause.

[1 ]Taylor’s amendment (col. 1421) provided that the Board should not insist on the appointment of a chaplain if the duties of that officer could be secured without payment. For its defeat, see col. 1423.