A practical guide to the roles and responsibilities of overseers and assistant overseers during the Victorian Era. This comprehensive book covers all aspects of administration and management of workhouses, asylums and dispensaries that have primary objective of providing aid and relief to the impoverished and the sick. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.