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As the 19th century wore on, workhouses increasingly became refuges for the elderly, infirm, and sick rather than the able-bodied poor, and in 1929 legislation was passed to allow local authorities to take over workhouse infirmaries as municipal hospitals.
By the middle of the 19th century there was a growing realisation that the purpose of the workhouse was no longer solely or even chiefly to act as a deterrent to the able-bodied poor, and the first generation of buildings was widely considered to be inadequate.
People queuing at S. Marylebone workhouse circa 1900. In England, Wales and Ireland (but not in Scotland), [1] "workhouse" has been the more common term.Before the introduction of the Poor Laws, each parish would maintain its own workhouse; often these would be simple farms with the occupants dividing their time between working the farm and being employed on maintaining local roads and other ...
Punch criticized the New Poor Law's workhouses for splitting mothers and their infant children. Opposition to the Poor Law grew at the beginning of the 19th century. The 1601 system was felt to be too costly [41] and was considered in academic circles as encouraging the underlying problems. [105]
Until the early 19th century, the arrangements worked quite well in rural districts; but, as slum areas increased in towns of a more industrial nature, the system began to fall short. [1] The Act passed in 1672 required the thirty-two main burghs to build correction houses, [8] in which vagabonds were to be detained and forced to work. [2]
This is a list of workhouses in London. [1] In 1776 there were 86 workhouses in the metropolis plus about 12 pauper farms in Hoxton and Mile End [2] Aldgate workhouse;
Boards administered workhouses within a defined poor law union consisting of a group of parishes, either by order of the Poor Law Commission, or by the common consent of the parishes. Once a union was established it could not be dissolved or merged with a neighbouring union without the consent of its board.
The scheme was slow to take off, until workhouses discovered that the goods being produced could be sold, and thus the project could be self-financing. [1] On a visit to the workhouse in Great Yarmouth in 1903 Queen Alexandra paid £5 – equivalent to about £455 as of 2012 [ a ] – for a bedspread made by two elderly inmates, "to encourage ...