| Description Of Item | From the collection of Richard Poole. Includes notes on cooperation in providing for the poor; review of Barker and Cheyne on Irish Lunatics; remarks on the report of Writers to the Signet opposition to a bill regarding assistance to the poor; expenses of inmates of various hospitals; rate of assessment for the poor in Edinburgh according to Report of Committee of St Mary's parish Kirk Session 1740-1831; and poor law assessment 1845-1848. |