Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 103 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 103: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis This is a page of running prose from what appears to be a serialized work titled "A Month's Tour" (page 103). The text discusses the police force and poor relief systems in Dublin, comparing conditions around 1775—when streets were crowded with beggars and the poor received only casual charity—with improvements made through the establishment of a "house of Industry," an institution where those found begging in the streets could be sent. The passage emphasizes Dublin's efforts to regulate and improve both policing and social welfare, written in 18th-century typography with characteristic long "s" characters.
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A MONT H's FOUR. 103, The police of Dublin, though certainly improved in many particulars, is ftill ca- pable of very great additions, To perfect this, they are continually employed in making ufeful regulations. If we look a few years back, no further than 1775, we find their poor without any provifion, except the cafual charity of in- dividuals. The ftreets were crowded with beggars, and every where you were pre- | fented with fcenes of diftrefs painful to be- hold. To remedy which, they have inftituted a- houfe of Induftry, where any one, who 1s found foliciting relief in the ftreets, is lia ble to be fent. | Ane. comicbooks.com