1. That the existing system of Poor Law in England is destructive of the industry, forethoght and honestry of the labourers; to the wealth and the morality of employers of labour and of the owners of property; and to the murual goodwill and happiness of all; that it collects and chains down the labourers in masses without any reference to the demand for labourer; that while it increases their numbers it impairs the means by which the fund for their subsistence is to be reproduced and inpairs the motives for using those means which it suffers to exist; and that every year and every day these evils are becoming more overwhelming in their magnitude and less susceptible of cure.
2. That of these evils that which consists merely in the amount of the rates---an evil great when considered in itself, but trifling when compared with the moral effects which I am deploring---might be diminished by the combination of workhouse and by substituting a rigid administration and contract management for existing scenes of neglect, extravagance, jobbing and fraud.
3. That by an alteration, or even according to the suggestion of many witness an abolition of the laws of settlement, a great part, or according to the latter suggestion, the whole of the enormous sums now spent in litigation and removals might be saved; the labourers might be distributed according to the demand for labour; the immigration from Ireland of labourers of inferior habits might be checked; and the opression and cruelty to which the unmarried kabourers and those who have acquired anu property are now subjected might according to the extent of the alteration be diminished or utterly put an end to.
4. That if no relief were allowed to be given to the able-bodied or to their families except in return for adequate labour, or in a well-regulated workhouse the worst of the existing sources of evil, the allowance system, would immediately disappear; a broad line would be drawn between the independent labourers and the paupers; the number of paupers would be immediately diminished in consequence of the reluctance to accept relief on such terms; and would be still further dimnished in consequence of the increased fund for payment of wages occasioned by the diminution of rates; and would ultimately, instead of forming a continually increasing proportion of the whole population, become a small, well-defined part of it, capable of being provided for at an expense less than one-half of the present Poor Rates.
5. That the proposed change would tend powerfully to promote providence and forethought, not only in the daily concerns of life but in the most important od all points---marriage.
6. That it is essential to the working of every one of these improvements that the administration of the Poor Laws should be entrusted as to their general superintendence, to one central authority with extensive powers and as to their details to paid officers acting under the consciousness of constant superintendence and strict responsibility...

Conclusion to Edwin Chadwick's report in The Extracts, 1833, 338-9.