Download or read book Children of the State (Classic Reprint) written by Florence Davenport Hill and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Children of the State A second preface seems peculiarly needful to a second edition which contains comparatively little of the original book. Changes conditions in various directions made a complete rearrangement of the subject imperative, and rendered it necessary to cut out some passages no longer relevant most of the historical portion has, however, been retained. Though we trust that many abuses and mistakes thus recorded now belong only to history, we con sidered it better to reproduce them, as illustrative of the difficulties which characterise Poor Law adminis tration in Great Britain and Ireland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.