Causes of Pauperism:
Intemperance
Drug habit
Immorality
Shiftlessness and inefficiency
Crime
Temper
Stinginess
Speculation
Neglect by relatives
No support
Accident
Sickness
Physical defect
Mental deficiency
Insanity
Old age

From Almshouse women: a study of two hundred and twenty-eight women in the city and county almshouse of San Francisco by Mary Roberts Coolidge. Stanford University, Cal.: Published by The University, 1896. p. 29.