[WED]Maternity bag?

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 03:33:41 EDT

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Friendly societies are mutual aid organisations designed  to help people 
protect themselves against hardship. The idea of friendly  societies goes back at 
least as far as the seventeenth century. They were seen  as a solution to the 
problems people and their families knew they would face  should they fall ill 
or die leaving their children or spouse with limited  resources. The friendly 
societies movement grew as new towns and industries  developed in the 
nineteenth century and people found it difficult to rely on  village communities. 
State provision for the poor included the threat of the  workhouse.

Regards Stan  Mapstone
www.mapstone.org

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