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Poverty, Public Health and the State in Britain, c1780–1939

Indoor relief in poorhouses, workhouses and houses of correction

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Recall questions on the forms indoor relief took, Gilbert's Act, the Sturges-Bourne Acts and plural voting, and how uncommon indoor relief actually was.

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Key term

What forms did indoor relief take?

Who and when

What did the Sturges-Bourne Acts of 1818–19 introduce?

Key term

What was a poorhouse?

Questions from this subtopic

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  1. 1

    What forms did indoor relief take?

    Model answer

    Paupers were housed in workhouses, in parish poorhouses, and in houses of correction for the disorderly.

  2. 2

    What did Gilbert's Act of 1782 allow?

    Model answer

    It let parishes form unions and build workhouses for the aged and infirm only, while giving the able-bodied outdoor relief or work near home.

  3. 3

    What did the Sturges-Bourne Acts of 1818–19 introduce?

    Model answer

    Select vestries to administer relief and a system of plural voting giving wealthier ratepayers more votes.

  4. 4

    What was a poorhouse?

    Model answer

    A parish building housing the impotent poor, the aged and orphans, often small and run informally, rather than a place of deterrence.

  5. 5

    What was a house of correction?

    Model answer

    An institution for punishing vagrants and the disorderly with hard labour, distinct in principle from relief but often confused with it in practice.

  6. 6

    What was Knatchbull's Act of 1723?

    Model answer

    The Workhouse Test Act, which let parishes set up workhouses, alone or together, and strike off the relief list any poor person who refused to enter one.

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