[Manuscript] Draft memorandum to the General - Governor of Warsaw, concerning the removal of beggars from the streets of Warsaw [1885?]

Format:20x32.5cm. Pages:4. Folding marks. On the last page description in pencil.

In the second half of the 19th century, Warsaw struggled with a large influx of rural people, leading to an increase in the number of homeless and beggars. Tsarist authorities often used administrative and police methods to solve this social problem.

The initial excerpt from the Note was handwritten in Polish, with an annotation indicating 1885 as the likely date of the document's creation: "The question of removing beggars from the street has already been raised many times, and for let before a few years ago; the project in advance presented to the Count Governor, received an order, the formation of a Committee under the presidency of General Hair - but without result, mainly for lack of capital zaktadorongo; for there was myst, the creation of the Beggars' Establishment, that is, the accommodation of the beggars in one building ...".