A treatise on the state of the poor in sickness, with the proposal of a plan for their relief; selected from a small volume of essays ... / And now edited separately, with some additions.

  • Worthington, Richard
Date:
1804
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the state of the poor in sickness, with the proposal of a plan for their relief; selected from a small volume of essays ... / And now edited separately, with some additions. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SUFFOLK. V MY LORD, /Ar dedicating this small treatise t& your Lordship, I have adopted the best mode, within the extent of my means, for the furtherance of the end in view—the increase of charitable provisions for the poor in sickness. I am the more convinced of this truth, because I have had the satis- faction of knowing that your Lordship*s serious attention has already been directed to the state of the poor generally; and a plan been formed for augmenting their comforts, and correcting their morals. Information, such as this, rather en¬ courages me to submit the following pages to your Lordship*s perusal, than constrains me to with-hold them : and I trust that your Lordship will admit, in further ar¬ gument for my doing so, that, whatl have to. offer, applies immediately to that pecu¬ liar