poor-master's

Updated: June 16, 2025

It is no use inquiring for them from door to door, and the poor-master's disbursements are so limited in amount that his bills for pauper relief become mixed up with other items, so that they cannot be separately stated. The total number of paupers resident in American almshouses is 67,000, or about one in every 70,000 of the whole population.

Various - Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885