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Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people, with maps and numerous wood engravings Volume 8 - Couverture souple
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... by the number of foot-pounds of work done by a hundred-weight of coals supplied to the furnace. A similar mode of comparison is now applied to steam-engines for agricultural purposes, &c. The quantity of work which can be got out of any machine, human, animal, or other, depends in many cases oil the rate at WO'RKHOUSE, the name given to municipal Institutions, in England, in which paupers are supported and maintained. The earliest mention of tin-in is to be found in stat. 13 and 14 Car. II. c. 12, authorizing workhouses to be erected in the cities of London and Westminster, to which rogues and vagabonds might be committed, by any two members of the 'Workhouse Corporation,' a Board created by the act, with the view of restraining them from predatory habits, and compelling them to work for their living. The provisions of this act were, for the first time, carried into effect in the reign of William and Mary, when a corporation, headed by the Lord Mayor of London, fitted up a house in Bishopsgate Street as a workhouse, one part of which, called the Keeper's Side, was devoted to the purpose contemplated by the act of Charles II.--viz., the reception of vagrants and disorderly persons, committed by two governors; while, in the other part, called the Steward's Side, poor children were lodged, and taught various employments and branches of education. A very few workhouses were afterwards erected by local acts; but their general adoption throughout England was first provided for by act 9 Geo. I. c. 7, by which the churchwardens and overseers of the poor, in any parish or town, were empowered, with consent of the majority of the inhabitants, to establish a workhouse, where the poor were to be lodged and maintained. Two or more parishes might unite in having one...
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