• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Observations on the causes of the dissoluteness which reigns among the lower classes of the people : the propensity of some to petty larceny: and the danger of gaming, concubinage, and an excessive fondness for amusement in high life, &c. Also an account of the humanity and policy of the Marine Society, now solliciting an Incorporation-The State of the London Workhouse, and the Usefulness and Piety of the Magdalen Hospital, &c. With a proposal for new regulating of Bridewell, in order to render it of important Service to the Police of London. Likewise a plan for preventing the extrordinary mortality of the children of the labouring Poor in London and Westminster. In three letters to a governor of Bridewell, Bethlem, Christ-Church, &c. By Jonas Hanway, Esq
  • Contributor: Hanway, Jonas [Author]
  • imprint: London: sold by J. and F. Rivington, in Saint Paul's Church-Yard, and other booksellers, MDCCLXXII. [1772]
    Online-Ausg.: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Extent: Online-Ressource ([4],88p); 8°
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Bridewell Royal Hospital Administration ; Bridewell Royal Hospital (Witley, England) Administration ; Marine Society (London, England) Rules and practice ; Charities Great Britain ; Poor Great Britain ; Great Britain Social conditions 18th century
  • Reproductino series: Eighteenth Century Collections Online
  • Type of reproduction: Online-Ausg.
  • Place of reproduction: Farmington Hills, Mich: Cengage Gale, 2009
  • Reproduction note: Electronic reproduction; Available via the World Wide Web
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  • Footnote: Braces in title
    English Short Title Catalog, N10124
    Price from imprint: price Two Shillings
    Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library