PPT-The workhouse

Workhouses Workhouses first began when a law was passed in 1838 that stated workhouses were to be built to help the poor People worked in the workhouses in exchange for shelter and food By August 1846 there were about 128 workhouses around the country. Charity . and the . Care . of the . Poor. Lecture 4. Medicine, Disease and Society in Britain, 1750 - 1950. Lecture Themes. Links between sickness and poverty. Access to medical care for the poor. Increasing population, urbanisation and industrialisation. 6-1 CHAPTER1.POLICE AND ARREST.2.WORKHOUSE.POLICE AND ARREST SECTION6-101.Policemen subject to chief's orders.6-102.Policemen to preserve law and order, etc.6-103.Policemen to wear uniforms and be arm WORKHOUSE RECORDS What are poor law records? The Poor Law system was set up to provide relief to the destitute poor. The records are the archives of the Boards of Guardians (PRONI ref BG/), who were Workhouse & Poor Law records Clerkenwell Workhouse was established in 1727 for the parishes of St James and St John and stood on the west side of Farringdon Road (formerly known as Coppice Row) . The Union Workhouse at Tenterden was designed by architect James Savage and constructed in 1843 on a site to the west of the town in Plummer Lane. Tenterden Poor Law Union comprised eleven constitu The Industrial Revolution, which began in England, was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when the life of ordinary people was changed dramatically forever. It was a time of numerous inventions, so industry developed so fast that society could barely keep up.. The old poor law . In the industrial revolution the poor in England, were looked after by a system set up in the 16. th. century. Every parish (town) was to set up their own workhouses where the poor could live and work for very little or no pay. . Limavady Workhouse Workhouse are available The Blind FiddlerThe Pauper’s GraveyardNewtownlimavady Workhouse opened on 15th March 1842 and admitted its rst inmate on the same day.Workhouses wer http://www.workhouses.org.uk Click on: Workhouse Life (on the left)Click on each of the topics: Entering & Leaving Uniform Classification Inside a workhouse Daily routine Rules & punishment Workhouse By George R and Hannah S. Underpaid overworked and went mainly unsupervised by the board of guardians. Were the most powerful people in the workhouse staff. Often abused their position. However not all were like this, e.g. The master at the Ashford workhouse.. Economic History Society. Annual Conference, University of Cambridge. 2. nd. April 2011. © Jeremy . Boulton, Newcastle . University. London and its poor: why bother?. ‘Mixed economy of welfare’, Jo Innes. © . Romola. . Davenport (University of Cambridge). Jeremy . Boulton (University of Newcastle). LPSS ‘Death and Disease in the Community, 1400-2010’. Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester. This does not “count” towards your final GCSE grade but appears on your certificate as a separate assessment which will be graded “pass”, “merit” or “distinction”. You will prepare a 5 minute talk on changing attitudes towards a set topic between Victorian times and today. The following pages contain a brief account of the experiment successfully tried by the Select Vestry of Liverpool (the guardians of the poor)—the introduction of trained Nurses into the male wards of the Workhouse Infirmary. That experiment having resulted so successfully as to induce the Vestry to extend the system to the remainder of the infirmary, it may be interesting to those who are concerned in the management of workhouses elsewhere to learn something of its history and progress.