Booklet 5 - Poverty and Pauperism Flashcards
What % received poor relief in the north and south
North: 10%
South: 23%
What % of questionnaires sent to parishes by the Royal Commission 1832 were returned?
Only 10%
What happened to poor rates in the post war period
1815= £5.7 million 1817= £7.9 million 1831= £7 million
Name two collectivists
Thomas Paine
Robert Owen
Name two utilitarians
Jeremy Bentham
Edwin Chadwick
Name two individualists
Thomas Malthus
Joseph Townsend
How much of Britains GNP did poor relief take up?
2%
How many workhouses were there by 1839?
350
Who ran the Andover workhouse?
Ex sergeant major Colin M’Dougal
Why was Andover workhouse the centre of a national scandal?
M’Dougal and his son assaulted females and sexually abused them
Inmates ate bone marrow because of rhe hunger
Children were flogged for bed wetting
Children’s milk was watered down
Inmates forced to spend the night in the mortuary as punishment
Who were the Workhouse Visiting Society and when were they formed?
As a result of workhouse scandals, groups like the workhouse visiting society were formed to carry out unofficial checks on workhouses.
1858
Name 2 high profile novelists at the time who challenged attitudes to poverty
Charles Dickens
Samuel Smiles
What does utilitarianism mean
The greatest happiness of the greatest number
