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refused to enter a workhouse. Some Poor Law authorities hoped to run workhouses at a profit by utilising the free labour of their inmates. Most were employed...63 KB (8,276 words) - 22:06, 8 November 2024
scrutiny. The scandal began with the revelation in August 1845 that inmates of the workhouse in Andover, Hampshire, England were driven by hunger to eat the...32 KB (4,376 words) - 02:41, 8 February 2024- Poorhouse (redirect from Superintendent of the poor)A poorhouse or workhouse is a government-run (usually by a county or municipality) facility to support and provide housing for the dependent or needy....12 KB (1,262 words) - 18:18, 17 August 2024
- constructed at a cost of £7,850, to hold 900 inmates. The workhouse in Waterford City was constructed to serve a ‘Union’ area made up of East Waterford...5 KB (687 words) - 08:23, 17 September 2023
- ergastula) was a Roman workhouse building used as a type of factory with slaves held in chains or to punish slaves. The ergastulum was usually built as a deep,...5 KB (487 words) - 11:39, 20 August 2023
Oliver Twist (redirect from The adventures of Oliver Twist)published as a serial from 1837 to 1839 and as a three-volume book in 1838. The story follows the titular orphan, who, after being raised in a workhouse, escapes...47 KB (5,012 words) - 21:53, 5 November 2024
The 19th-century workhouse was built for 820 inmates, divided by sex into two groups. It cost £64,000 to build and replaced the workhouse in Princes Road...3 KB (306 words) - 19:45, 18 January 2024- Medium Security Institution (redirect from St Louis Workhouse)jail was closed and its inmates moved to the City Justice Center. Built in 1966, the prison gained its nickname "The Workhouse" from an 1840s city ordinance...8 KB (594 words) - 17:22, 13 August 2024
- Allegheny County Workhouse was a prison that was located adjacent to the town of Blawnox, Pennsylvania. Its full name was "Allegheny County Workhouse and Inebriate...1 KB (125 words) - 10:14, 17 June 2024
Scarriff (category Parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe)following year the workhouse ran out of food, water and clothing for the inmates, who were dying from fever and starvation at the rate of a dozen a day, along...11 KB (1,234 words) - 17:52, 9 February 2024
3500 inmates of the workhouse had been buried there between 1855 and 1895, before being crudely disinterred when the workhouse was demolished. A memorial...3 KB (286 words) - 00:35, 3 April 2024
Barham, Suffolk (section Riot in the workhouse)Construction of the building cost £10,000. It accommodated 400 inmates and was built between Workhouse Lane (now Lower Crescent) and Pesthouse Lane (which led...13 KB (1,727 words) - 13:42, 28 March 2024- Teampaillin Bán (category Cemeteries in the Republic of Ireland)detached from the workhouse grounds could be rented or purchased, and used as a cemetery for the deceased inmates of the workhouse. The Board of Guardians had...8 KB (999 words) - 23:18, 26 September 2023
2023) next to the natural deposit of yellow limestone which had been quarried by inmates of the preceding city workhouse jail across Vine Street. On December...35 KB (4,111 words) - 13:50, 29 May 2024
Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838 (redirect from Irish Poor Law Act of 1838)management of inmates, and any other issues that may arise as regards the week-to-week running of the Workhouse. The minute books also record the number of inmates...5 KB (479 words) - 21:08, 9 October 2024
supper of sick inmates in Irish workhouses in the 1840s. In Australia and New Zealand, post World War II, flummery was the name given to a completely different...4 KB (406 words) - 03:03, 13 November 2024- Law Union had a medical officer. Most workhouses had a small infirmary block, but nursing was in the hands of the other inmates, most of whom could not...10 KB (1,365 words) - 00:21, 21 September 2024
- The Workhouse Visiting Society was an organisation set up in 1858 and existed "to improve moral and spiritual improvement of workhouse inmates" in England...5 KB (626 words) - 04:07, 14 December 2021
- workhouse. From the beginning provision was made for educating child inmates by employing a school mistress. Consequently in 1857 a committee made a positive...15 KB (2,017 words) - 20:08, 20 November 2024
threat of the workhouse would deter vagrancy, and that inmate labor could provide a means of support for the workhouse itself. Governance of these institutions...163 KB (21,178 words) - 10:26, 22 October 2024
- doubt, the tendency of the last few years has been in the direction of greater indulgence for certain classes of the inmates of workhouses. With this, so long
- of the 'Workhouse Howl'? Sister Monica Joan: I have heard the Workhouse Howl itself. One hears it less now the infirmaries are closed and the inmates
- Because travelling was difficult, the inmates rarely had visitors, which made life that of a prisoner. Chard had a workhouse which was divided in casual and