CITY OF LONDONDERRY. 
Poor Shop .—The poor shop was instituted in 1821. It is supported from subscriptions, 
which average from £50 to £60 annually. Its object is to provide all poor applicants with clothes 
and bedding at prime cost, on condition of their giving security, and paying for them weekly, at 
the rate of Id. in the shilling. Shoes are sold every Tuesday, and other clothing every alternate 
Tuesday. Instalments are received every Friday from 11 till 2. The management is vested in 
a committee of ladies. 
This institution has tended to promote habits of punctuality, honesty, industry, and inde¬ 
pendence. The expenses of management (including loss by defaulters, office rent, &c.) being- 
only from £20 to £25 annually; the capital is always on the increase, so that the mere interest 
will perhaps in time cover the expenses. When the security fails to cover a loss by default, the 
original capital becomes liable to it. The funds amount at present (1835) to ,£544 2s. 2d. 
following 
articles have been disposed of in the years specified :— 
Years. 
Articles. 
Years. 
Articles. 
1821 . 
. 1603 
1828 . 
. 3213 
1822 . 
. 1433 
1829 . 
. 2811 
1823 . 
. 2083 
1830 . 
. 1398 
1824 . 
. 2366 
1831 . 
. 1467 
1825 . 
. 2455 
1832 . 
. 1637 
1826 . 
. 2550 
1833 . 
. 2067 
1827 . 
. 2888 
1834 . 
. 1819 
Detail for the last 3 Years. 
Articles sold. 
1832. 
1833. 
1834. 
Aprons, bedsteads, bonnets, caps, shawls, and slips, 
113 
49 
28 
Bedticks, ......... 
190 
124 
132 
Blankets, pairs of, ...... 
250-J 
3811 
2831 
Cloaks, ......... 
48 
93 
54 
Coats, waistcoats, and trowsers, . . . . 
90 
74 
65 
Counterpanes, ........ 
24 
66 
48 
Gowns and curtains, ....... 
143 
197 
178 
Petticoats, flannel, ....... 
188 
241 
226 
Sheets, ......... 
224 
240 
239 
Shifts, calico, flannel, and linen, ..... 
77 
59 
60 
Shirts, flannel and linen, ...... 
87 
78 
56 
Shoes, pairs of, . . . . . . 
181 
341 
301 
Suits for babies and boys, ...... 
22 
24 
21 
Waistcoats and drawers, flannel, .... 
0 
100 
127 
Totals, 
1637J 
20671 
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Mendicity Association .—The mendicity association, or asylum, was instituted on the 13th of 
May, 1825. It is supported from voluntary subscriptions, and governed by a committee, which 
varies in number, and is annually renewed. The original object was the employment and support 
of street beggars but relief is also extended to the labouring poor in seasons of distress. The diet 
consists chiefly of oatmeal, potatoes, and milk. In 1829-30, when oatmeal was dear, rice was 
used for dinner, and a ^ cwt., which cost only 12s. 5d., slightly seasoned with molasses, ginger, 
and pepper, was found sufficient for 169 persons—allowing 2^ lbs. each to 123 adults, and 1^ lbs. 
each to 78 children. 
In 1830-1 the committee were obliged for about three months to diminish the rations, to 
substitute Indian meal for oatmeal, and preserve rice for dinner on alternate days. In 1832-3, it 
became necessary to reduce the list of paupers, and diminish the rations by 1 oz. of meal, and 
Alb. of potatoes. Thus the daily expense of about 1 ^d. for each pauper, not only provided them 
with the necessaries of life, but procured for several of the older inmates the luxuries of snuff and 
tobacco. 
The paupers are employed in spinning, and occasionally in net-making. It was intended 
that one-half of their earnings should be spent on clothing, the only gratuitous supply being dona¬ 
tions of worn garments: such labours, however, as suited the aged and infirm, were found to be 
but scantily productive. 
