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PAUPERISM (Lat. pauper, poor)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 967 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUPERISM (
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Lat. pauper, poor)  , a
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term meaning generally the
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state of being poor, poverty; but in
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English usage particularly the
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condition of being a " pauper," i.e. in
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receipt of
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relief administered under the poor
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law . In this sense the word is to be distinguished from " poverty." A
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person to be relieved under the poor law must be a destitute person, and the moment he has been relieved he becomes a pauper, and as such incurs certain
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civil disabilities .
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Statistics dealing with the state of
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pauperism in this sense convey not the amount of destitution actually prevalent, but the particulars of
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people in receipt of poor law relief .

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