Children Act (1908),312,314;Children's Care Committees,310-311;Cholera,116,119n.;patients suffering from, not to be admitted to workhouse,119n.;Christmas Day, no extra dinner allowed on,69;extra allowed,70;Church Army,171;Circulars of Central Authority,21,22;Clothing, as outdoor relief,25n.,100n.;purchase or redemption of, by voluntary agencies,144;Cod-liver oil, supply of,117;Commission, Royal, on Aged Poor,231-232;on the Blind, etc.,189;on the Feeble-minded,312,314,345,354-355,361;of 1832-1834,3-11,257-263;of 1905-1909,274-319;Commissioners, Assistant,57,147;Committee, Departmental, on weighing rations,249;on vagrancy,174;----Parliamentary, of 1838,35,37;of 1864,97,117-118;of 1888,174;of 1892,167-168;of 1900,226;----of Privy Council on Education,107n.,109n.;Committees, boarding-out,196-200;----Visiting, of lunatic asylum,222,223,224;----Visiting, of workhouse,77,125,238,244,247-248;----Women's,189;Common Poor Fund.SeeMetropolitan Common Poor Fund;Commons, House of,148,153;Compulsion,270-272;principle of,263,267-268;in Majority Report,276;Constable may take children to workhouse,181;Continuous treatment,276;Convict, emigration of family of,141;Corbett, Mr.,140n.,145n.,147n.,148,155n.,157n.,158n.,159,161n.,162n.,175n.,178,183,186,198n.,251;Corn-grinding,75,164n.,246;Cost of Minority Report proposals,297-300;recovery of,294-295;Cottage homes,185-187,226,258,264;Cotton famine in Lancashire,90n.,91-93,105,142,166;Councils of Social Welfare, sphere of, under Minority Report,311;Country Holiday Fund,310-311;Creed register,77;Criminal Lunatics Act (1838),18n.;Cripples,127-128,255;Culley, Mr.,150n.,158n.,177n.,229n.,253n.;Curative treatment,263-266,269-272;principle of,263-266;in Majority Report,275;Custody of Children Act,205;Davy, Mr.,181,203,232n.;Deaf and dumb,18,50,127,184,241;See alsoChildren, Defective;Defectives,50,74,85,127-128,226-229;See alsoBlind,Deaf and Dumb, andChildren, Defective;----mentally. SeeUnsound Mind, Persons of;Denison's Act,105,179;Destitution, causes of,300,347;definition of, as regards medical relief,116,212n.;want of education a form of,105n.;----authority, plea for, in Majority Report,278-281;necessity for, in 1834,278;not to apply to mentally defective,279;connection of, with "moral" defect,281;with principle of compulsion,289-292;with principle of universal provision,292-295;the officials of a,285;inability of, to deal with incipient stage,286-287;inability of, to search out,287-288;inability of, to deal with ins and outs,288-289;inability of, to deal with unemployed,291;overlapping of other authorities with,293;Prof. Bosanquet's argument for,350-361;Detention. SeeWorkhouse;----Colony,307;Disciplinary supervision as substitute for deterrence,316-317;Dietaries and Accounts Order,170,171n.,240n.,245,248,249;Diseases Prevention Act,209n.,213;Disfranchisement of able-bodied,168n.,261;of sick,209,213,217;Dispensaries, Poor Law,118,146,208,258,264;provident,118;Dissenters. SeeNonconformists;Distress Committee,172;powers and constitution of,169;employment of able-bodied by,169n.,260,261,262;Distress from want of employment, Committee of House of Commons on,167;District medical officers. SeeMedical Officers, District;----Nurses Order,181,210n.See alsoNurses;Divided Parishes and Poor Law Amendment Act,175n.,209n.,245n.;Dodson, Mr.,151-152;Doyle, Mr.,148;Drink,304-306;Drouet, Mr.,108;Dumsday, Mr. W. H.,197n.Ebrington, Lord,137n.;Education, provision of, for paupers,126,266-267,271.See alsoChildren, Education of;----Aid Society, Manchester and Salford,105n.;----Department, 180----Acts (1870-1909),105-106,177,179n.,180n.,198,201,227n.,228,312,313,344,361;----(Administrative Provisions) Act (1907),312;----of Poor Children Act (1855),105n.;----(Provision of Meals) Act (1906),312,313;----(Scotland) Act (1908),312,344,361;Elementary Education (Blind and Deaf Children) Act (1893),227n,228----(Defective and Epileptic Children) Act (1899),227n.;Emigration,10,19,141-143,169,249-251,260,266;Epileptics,217,218,255;Estcourt, Mr. Sotheron,96n.,97n.;Factory Acts,198;Family, how the Minority Report deals with the,301-302,348-349;Farm colonies,169-172,255,260,265,270;Fawcett, Professor H.,115;Feeble-minded,80;proposed authority for the,354-355;Royal Commission on,312,314,345,354,355,361.SeeUnsound Mind, Persons of;Fels, Mr. Joseph,170;Fever wards,122;Fleming, Mr. Baldwyn,181-182,192,234n.,254n.;Fowle, Rev. T. W., vi,115;Fowler, Sir Henry (Lord Wolverhampton),167,230n.,238;Franchise, extension of,148;Free Education Act (1891),106;Friendly societies, out-relief to members of,47,48,148,253-255,265;Froment, Mons. G. E. de,vi;Fust, Mr. Jenner,190-191;Gambling,304;Gardiner, Colonel Lynedoch,145n.;General Board of Health,146;----Consolidated Order (1847),32-33,35-36,46,54,56,61-62,79,81-82,88,91,107-108,113,126-127,133,170,188,235-237,240,249,260;----Orders or Rules,21-22,48,61-62;Gilbert's Act,321;Girls, employment of,67;in workhouse,66-67,134;Glanville, Dr. Mortimer,210n.,211n.;Goschen, Mr. G. J. (Lord Goschen),100,102,103,104n.,123,144-145,147n.,148,149,207,214,219,253,254,255,266,282-283;Grant, Colonel C. W.,114n.;Greater Eligibility, Principle of,263,264,265;Guardians, grant of relief by,12;apprenticing of children by,17;consent of, for building new workhouse,19,54;opposition of, to establishment of vagrant districts,35,97;to establishment of boarding-schools,45;subscriptions by, to voluntary institutions,63n.,116,217n.;refractory paupers brought before,76;part taken by, in provision of relief works,90n.,93-94,165,166,167;nomination of members of Distress Committees by,169;Conference of, in London,178n.,198n.;proceedings taken against parents by, for neglect of children,180,181,184;inspection of boarded-out children by,199-200;in country, conservatism of,187,192;election of,209n.,247;in rural districts, the public health authorities,212n.,219-220;combination of, for classification by workhouses,243-244;Guilds of Help, sphere of, under Minority Report,311;Hanway's Act,17n.;Hardy, Mr. Gathorne,120,215;Harries, Mr. Thomas,137n.;Hart, Dr. Ernest,119;Head, Sir Edmund,86;Head, Sir Francis,57,58,60,86,131;Health Societies,311;----visitors,220,310;Hedley, Mr.,151n.,220n.;Henley, Mr.,163;Hervey, Mr.,187n.,219;Hibbert, Sir J.,189;Hicks-Beach, Sir M. (Lord St. Aldwyn),98-99;Hill, Miss F.,114n.;Hill, Miss Octavia,145n.,253;Hodgson, Mr.,104;Homes, Children's,109-111,201;convalescent,241,255;for aged,239n.;SeeCottage Homes;Hospitals, relation of Poor Law to,63n.,116,119,120,216-217,220,241,255,266;House of Lords. SeeCommittees, Parliamentary;Houseless Poor,35n.;See alsoVagrants;Idiots,63,123,224-225,242;SeeUnsound Mind, Persons of;Imbeciles. SeeUnsound Mind, Persons of;Impotent,8-9,18,51.See alsoAged;Industrial Schools. SeeSchools, Industrial;----Schools Acts,111;Inebriates Act,206;Infants, in workhouse,56,61,62,63-64,66,67,72.See alsoChildren;Infectious disease,126,245n.,271;provision for, by Guardians,62n.,119,136,214n.;by Metropolitan Asylums Board,123,209n.,212-213.See alsoHospitals;Infirm. SeeAged and Infirm;Infirmaries, Bill for establishment of District,49,52;----Poor Law,121,207,235n.;pressure on Guardians to provide,211-212,216;cost of maintenance in, borne by Common Poor Fund,214;increasing popularity of,214-216;admission to,214n.,215;maintenance in, held to be medical relief only,217.See alsoWorkhouse, Sick in;"Ins and Outs,"132,192n.,206;detention of,244-245;Insane. SeeUnsound Mind, Persons of;Inspectors of Local Government Board,147,181-182,190,206,216,225,241;strict policy urged by,148-153,159,164,175,178,207-208,229,232,243,251,252;test workhouse advocated by,159-161,163,243;conferences of,151;----of Lunacy Commissioners,125;----of Schools,113,114;Justices, granting of relief by,12,13,14,18;committal of lunatics to asylum by,18;detention of lunatics in workhouse by order of,222,223;Kennedy, Mr.,182n.,187n.;Labour colonies for vagrants,171n.;----Exchanges Act (1908),346;----Exchanges of Distress Committees,169,172,270;in Majority Report,277;in Minority Report,358-359;----Test,156-158,165,178,261;Laisser faire,270;