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Title: Minutes of Evidence [of the] Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress; Appendix Volume II, Minutes of Evidence (35th to 48th Days) Being Mainly the Evidence of London Witnesses
Description: HMSO, 1909. Soft Cover. Appendix Volume II of the Poor Law Enquiry of 1909 being Minutes of Evidence (35th to 48th days) being mainly the Evidence of London Witnesses with Appendix. Printed by Wyman & Sons for HMSO. Tall folio iv + 445p bound in original blue paper boards with much wear at top and bottom of spine but printing on backstrip intact. Library marks and corner torn from front cover without loss of text. Ex-libris with on;y evidence a few stamps. Folding charts and tables but almost all text devoted to reports of witnesses - 10,000 individual paragraphs reporting their replies to questions. e.g. from evidence offered by Mrs.C.S.Edwards (Matron of Lambeth Workhouse) - in relation to mental work or stimulus for Workhouse Inmates - Q. Supposing you made their tea depend on their doing a certain number of sums -- A I daresay they would try to do them, but whether they would succeed is another matter. Q. And do you not think that either by making the thing attractive by magic lanterns or somthing like that, or, on the other hand, by taking away their tea unless they did sums or learnt a bit of poetry off by heart.. Covers evidence from Workhouse Matrons, District Medical Officers, Clerks to boards of Guardians etc to many London Burghs - West Ham, Edmonton, Fulham, Stepney, Greenwich, Bethnal Green, Holborn,St.Pancras and etc Some damage to top of first few leaves near spine not affecting text. . Good

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