Poor Law magazine

Poor Law magazines 1859-1929

In April 1858  the Society of the Inspectors of the Poor for Scotland was founded. Its stated aim was to enable inspectors to obtain information as to decisions and practice in Poor Law matters. At the monthly meeting in May 1858  it was noted that there were 320 subscribers for the Poor Law Magazine, which was 80 short of the number required. However in September 1858  the first monthly edition of the Poor Law Magazine was published and continued without a break until December 1929 . In the same year the Local Government [Scotland] Reform Act was passed and control of poor relief passed to the counties and burghs. No further numbers of the journal were published. Throughout its life it maintained the original aim of printing the decisions in the supreme and local courts affecting the Poor Law as well as carrying original articles on ‘Poor and Parochial law’. In addition there was correspondence; notes of the month; and parliamentary decisions and answers. The last Editor was Boyd Berry, a distinguished advocate but the name of the first Editor is not recorded.

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Gift: Archivist, Grampian Region Archives (CHECK): c1992

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Individual copies of the Poor Law Magazine are held at Glasgow University Library.

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Fonds level description compiled by Compiled by Andrew Thomson, Hub Project Archivist, 21 June 2004. Administrative History compiled by Alastair Ramage, Museum Curator, Heatherbank Museum of Social Work, June 2004.