0 in the past, a building in which extremely poor people could live and be fed, paid for by the public -- 贫民院,济贫院
Borstal institutions as approved schools, and the poorhouse as a home of rest, or words to that effect.
Furthermore, several parishes did not have any poorhouses.
They want to be rid of the poorhouse and of the need for the poorhouse.
In time, rural municipalities also started to employ superintendents for their poorhouses, sometimes a married couple.
When these groups were moved to the poorhouses, the money could then be spent on needy children.
One was a very old servant who ended up in the poorhouse, and another was a woman who died at the age of 82.
At present the only alternative to the granting of unconditional outdoor relief is admission to the poorhouse.
Clause 8 aims at the break-up of the present general or mixed poorhouse where many types of inmates requiring different methods of treatment are found.