20.P Cost Most Significant Factor Shaping Poor Relief 34-70

Question 1

What are the 3 factors for this question?

Answer 1

Cost
Attitudes
Individual

Question 2

Cost

What was the population in 1831 compared to 1851?

Answer 2

13.9 million
21 million

Question 3

Cost

How much did it cost to open a workhouse in Banbury?

Answer 3

£6200

Question 4

In 1862, how much was indoor relief costing compared to outdoor relief?

Answer 4

4s 8d indoor
2s 3d outdoor

Question 5

Cost

When was Ricardo’s wage fund theory published? What did it say?

Answer 5

1817

That a predetermined fund of wealth existed for the payment of wages

Question 6

Attitudes

What were 2 actions of Angela Burdett Couttes?

Answer 6

1) found employment for pauper children in the military
2) founded Urania cottage with Charles Dickens to protect prostitutes in 1847

Question 7

Attitudes

When was the Workhouse Visiting Society formed?

Answer 7

1858

Question 8

Attitudes

What medical journal investigated the quality of medical care in London Workhouses? What did it lead to?

Answer 8

The Lancet

Led to the 1867 Metropolitan Poor Act

Question 9

Attitudes

Despite Andover, how many workhouses were built between 1851 and 1866?

Answer 9

100

Question 10

Attitudes

When was Self Help published by Samual Smiles?

Answer 10

1859

Question 11

Individuals

When did Dickens publish Oliver Twist and Hard Times?

Answer 11

1837
1854

Question 12

Individuals

Who closed their factory for 4 months to protest the Poor Laws?

Answer 12

John Fielden

Question 13

Individuals

When did Henry Mayhew publish his work on the poor ‘London Labour and the London Poor’? How many volumes? What was special about it?

Answer 13

1851
4
Contained interviews with paupers

Question 14

Individuals

When did Thomas Carlyle publish ‘Past and Present’? What did he describe workhouses as?

Answer 14

1843
“Poor law prisons”