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(Information on the Poor Law and its administration will be found in Fabian Tract No. 54, "The Humanizing of the Poor Law," and No. 29, "What to Read." See advertisement, page 4.) QUESTIONS. I.-REFORMS IN ADMINISTRA TION. Will you press at the first opportunity on the Board for the following: 1. Evening meetings of the Board? 2. Strict classification of the recipients of relief? 3. The allowance to the aged poor of adequate relief in their own homes wherever their character and circumstances permit? 4. The housing of the different classes of indoor poor in separate buildings? 5. The establishment of cottage homes or almshouses for the aged? 6. The provision of a separate apartment, when desired, for married people both over sixty? 7. The abolition of a uniform dress? 8. The provision for the aged poor in the workhouse of (a) books and newspapers, (b) tobacco or snuff? 9. Permission to the aged poor to interest themselves in some occupation, and to go out on every fine day? 10. 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The finding of temporary and honorable employment for those out of work in slack times, by co-operation, with the Vestry, or Town or County Council, or voluntary organizations, in the arrangement of the public works in such a way as to increase the employment at these periods? 14. The reform of the present Casual Ward System, providing for the weedingout of the habitual loafer from the genuine unemployed, and allowing the latter early egress and assistance on the "way-ticket" system, to enable him to get work? 15. The institution of compulsory and corrective treatment of the able-bodied habitual casual, vagrant or mendicant in some kind of "labor colony"? 16. The complete separation of the infirmary from the workhouse? 17. The employment of a sufficient staff of skilled nurses in the infirmary? 18. Will you report to the Local Government Board any infraction of the law or of their regulations? 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