2017 - Responses To The Poor Flashcards
When was the poor law amendment act? What ideology did it promote?
1834
The principle of less eligibility
How many workhouses by 1839?
350
When was the Andover Scandal? What were the conditions?
1845
Paupers fighting over rotting bones
Who exposed the Andover Scandal?
Walter in The Times
When was the Huddersfield Scandal?
What were the conditions (2)
1848
Patients left for 9 weeks with dirty sheets
79 beds for 130 people
When was the Workhouse Visiting Society formed?
1858
When did The Lancet undertake their investigation into the medical facilities of workhouses? What did this result in?
1865
Metropolitan Poor Act 1867
When was the Charitable Organisation Society formed? What did it do?
1869
Distinguished between deserving/undeserving poor - helped them get back on their feet
When did Barnardos open?
How many Children had they helped by Barnardo’s death?
1867
Nearly 60,000
What were 2 actions of Angela Burdett-Coutts?
Found young unemployed men places in the military
Formed Urania Cottage with Dickens
When did Smiles publish Self Help?
1859
When did Dickens publish Oliver Twist?
1837
When did Gazkell publish Mary Barton?
1848
When did Dickens’ parents go into a workhouse?
When he was 12
