pauperous

“Such a surging of pauperous humanity, dirt, and uncomplaining misery I had never before seen in the Western”

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond

“Foreigners established the first factory Tegucigalpa had ever known, which was already employing a half-hundred of the pauperous inhabitants in the making of candles, when the "government" suddenly not only put a heavy duty on stearine but required the payment of back duty on all that had already been imported.”

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond

“It would be further stipulated that in case of indigence resulting from injury, sickness or age, any such emigrants who should become pauperous should not thereupon be suffered to perish or come to want, but should be supported and cared for as is customary with similar inhabitants of the country in which they should be residents. [”

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919