Poor Law Amendment Act 1867[1]
Act of Parliament
Long titleAn Act to make the Poor Law Board permanent, and to provide sundry Amendments in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor.
Citation30 & 31 Vict. c. 106
Dates
Royal assent20 August 1867

The Poor Law Amendment Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 106) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, sponsored by Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook and supported by Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Florence Nightingale and the Association for the Improvement of the Infirmaries of London Workhouses.[2]

References

  1. ^ This short title was conferred on this Act by section 30 of this Act.
  2. ^ Ayers, Gwendoline (1971). England's First State Hospitals. London: Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

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