1724 St Peter Port levies its first poor rate

1726 Ord, 18.4.1726 establishes concept of settlement

1730 St Peter Port introduces uniforms for parochial paupers

1738 St Peter Port Chefs de Famille decide to build a workhouse

1743 St Peter Port's workhouse (the Town Hospital) is opened to paupers

1744 St Saviours levies a poor rate (? first in country parishes)

1752 Foundation deed of Country Hospital signed

1764 First paupers admitted to Country Hospital; most country parishes begin to levy poor rates

1788 States undertake to refund parochial relief expenses in respect of soldiers’ dependants (Acte, 19.4.1788)

1832 Town Hospital opens its house of separation

1851 Town Hospital closes its house of separation and opens a lunatic asylum

1852 O in C, 28.12.1852 establishes St Peter Port Poor Law Board

1867 O in C, 26.6.1867 confers settlement on non-natives after 20 years’ unbroken residence

1876 O in C, 27.6.1876 establishes Poor Law Boards in country parishes

1889 Ord, 30.9.1889 introduces certification for patients admitted to lunatic asylums

1892 States undertake to refund parochial relief expenses in respect of all strangers (Ord, 25.4.1892)

1899 States’ Board of Health is established; first States’ Medical Officer of Health is appointed

1900 Law on Compensation to Families of Persons killed in Accidents (O in C, 13.12.1900)

1901 Ord, 21.12.1901 brings Town and Country Hospitals under Royal Court supervision

1903 King Edward VII isolation hospital opens

1910 O in C, 11.6.1910 introduces new provisions for certification of patients admitted to lunatic asylums

1917 Law on the Protection of Children and Young People (O in C, 24.1.1917)

1919 States’ Income Tax Law (O in C, 20.12.1919)

1920 O in C, 13.10.1920 extends franchise for States elections to non-ratepaying men over 20 and non-ratepaying women over 30

1924 Workmen's Accident Compensation Law (O in C, 9.10.1924)

1925 O in C, 24.7.1925 transfers responsibility for poor relief funding from parishes to States, and creates States’ Central Poor Law Board

1926 Non-Contributory Old Age Pensions Law (O in C, 19.3.1926); O in C, 30.4.1926 makes poor relief a secular matter in all parishes; ord, 1.5.1926 transfers ownership of Town and Country Hospitals to States

1928 O in C, 24.11.1928 creates Children Board as a sub-committee of States’ Central Poor Law Board, and establishes States’ Children's Home

1931 O in C, 1.10.1931 modifies Non-Contributory Old Age Pensions Law to make pensions available to blind persons over 50