0 in the past, a building in which extremely poor people could live and be fed, paid for by the public
Secondly, the founding of a poorhouse meant better possibilities for taking care of the poor.
Those elderly and disabled who were in hospitals were to be moved to poorhouses, in order to separate medical care from poor relief.
When these groups were moved to the poorhouses, the money could then be spent on needy children.
The only help available to the elderly person was from the healthier paupers in the poorhouse.
Poorhouse superintendents were some of the first to be employed in municipal poor-relief, and little by little they were also allowed to appoint auxiliaries.
In time, rural municipalities also started to employ superintendents for their poorhouses, sometimes a married couple.
One was a very old servant who ended up in the poorhouse, and another was a woman who died at the age of 82.
She was registered as a domestic servant and ended up in the poorhouse where she spent the last year of her life.
