0 a building where very poor people in Britain used to work, in the past, in exchange for food and shelter
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.
