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• A properly regulated union workhouse would perhaps deter the great numbers of casual applicants and control those who entered its doors.

• We have also excluded almost 14 per cent of the patients group who were inmates of workhouses and other institutions in 1851 and 1881.

• Local government provided medical care for paupers free of charge in their homes or in a workhouse infirmary.

• Presumably workhouses and longstay hospitals at one time appeared equally established but both are now rare beasts.

• In the country a home is still just the workhouse, a place for paupers.

• This was a tendency only, and is not clear-cut for all workhouses.

• The working classes who were not poor enough for the workhouse were housed in appalling conditions provided almost entirely by private landlords.

• At the same time, civil servants calculated that compelling all poor law claimants to enter the workhouse was too expensive.

• Others could not even gain admittance to the workhouse.

• This effectively left workhouse children parentless, or rather, the new poor law and its functionaries became the institutional parents of a newly created orphan class.

• In the workhouse there is of necessity a dead level of monotony - there are many persons but no individuals.

• They provided detailed descriptions of the escapees, even offering rewards for their return and threats of the workhouse when finally recaptured.

• The oldest and poorest women were likely to be dependent, but in the homes of others or in workhouses rather than residing with close kin.

• Real as distinct from illustory changes might be due to the presence of a workhouse, for instance.

• He favoured a punitive workhouse system to keep the able-bodied male up to the mark.