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Mr. Loch next points out how in the case of

outdoor relief the care and oversight of the family relieved are quite insufficient. Outdoor relief often acts as a bounty on intem- perance, vice, idleness, lack of thrift, insanitation, and even the spread of disease. To put the thing in a nutshell, by out- door relief—and remember there is a vast amount of outdoor relief always going on in this country—we are actually sub- sidising pauperism. In the work of preventing the manu- facture of paupers by Government action no man has done better service than Mr. Loch, and to such good service this paper—it is published by Messrs. Bern rose and Sons, Derby and London, printers of the Official Report of the Church Congress—is no small addition.