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ˈwork·house SUBST Brit hist

workhouse
Armenhaus nt hist

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The charity's aims later expanded again to include prisoners and those in workhouses, police officers, railway workers, post office employees and others.
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The majority of the town's listed buildings were originally residential; churches, chapels, public houses, schools, banks, almshouses and workhouses are also well represented.
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It began its life as a workhouse infirmary.
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However, these workhouses were intended to help only the elderly, sick and orphaned, not the able-bodied poor.
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He found conditions in the workhouse a nightmare of cruelty, infinitely worse than the most inhuman aspects of the penitentiary.
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It had a rule that forbade any relief outside of the workhouse.
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I looked up to the window and saw outside all the workhouse prisoners, watching me.
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It was thought that if conditions in the workhouse were really bad then the poor would be deterred from seeking relief.
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Its use in hospitals was borrowed from workhouses.
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With a few exceptions, the only legally available form of aid was the workhouse.
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