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Excerpt from Report of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Assistance: January, 1925 Because of the interest manifested in the subject of old age assist ance we are not satisfied to present in this report only the findings of our last year's researches. In order to give an up t-o -date, co ordinated and logical story of the entire subject, we deemed it essential to submit, in addition, a brief statement of the facts and disclosures previously recorded regarding the conditions of the aged in Pennsylvania as well as a summary of the conclusions reached, by the various Commissions which have studied the bewildering system of our poor laws. These reveal that we are now operating under a system of poor relief based on principles inaugurated in the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601. AT the present time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.