...open their mill for the inspection of 'food, raiment, lodging, morals [and] medicines 38 The Reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, vol. IV 1805, Appendix no. 1, p. 3, 1802 Report, St Margaret and St John; Leeds report discussed...

...like the Society for the Promotion of Theological Education at the West. Some had a wide remit, like the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor; others were highly specialized, like the American Seamen's Friend Society, the Protestant Half...

...continue necessary care. In 1796 Wilberforce played a key role in forming a new organization called the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor—more commonly known as the "Bettering Society." The brainchild of fellow evangelical Thomas...

...Society for Religious Instructions to the Negroes in the West Indies, the London Missionary Society, the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor, the Church Missionary Society, the Religious Tract Society, the Society for Promoting the Religious...