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  1. English system for poor relief, established
  2. by the Poor Relief Act 1601. Each parish was
  3. responsible for its own poor, paid for by a
  4. parish tax. Relief today is provided by
  5. national social security benefits. Poor law
  6. was reformed in the 19th century, parish
  7. functions being transferred to the Poor Law
  8. Commissioners 1834 and eventually to the
  9. Ministry of Health 1914. It is now superseded
  10. by rights to benefit payments, administered
  11. by the Department of Social Security.
  12.