Factors Causing The Breakdown Of The Old Poor Laws 1815-34 Flashcards
What are the factors for this question?
Industrial towns, Rising Cost
Failures of Old poor Laws
Towns
In 1800, what percentage of people lived in towns? What percent by 1880?
25%
80%
Towns
What proportion of beggars in London were Irish because of immigration?
1/3
Towns
What did the population increase to by 1851 from 1831?
13.9 million in 1831
21 million in 1851
Towns
Who was employed to promote birth control through propaganda?
Francis Place
Cost
How many soldiers returned from the Napoleonic wars jobless?
400,000
Cost
What% of the countries GNP was spent on poor relief?
2%
Cost
How many people were receiving poor relief in 1775 compared to 1817?
2 million compared to 8 million
Cost
What did the 1832 royal commission find regarding the poor laws? Who did the report and what did they believe in?
The cost was too high
Nasseau Senior and Chadwick
Utilitarianism
Cost
What did the corn laws do to paupers? When were they?
1815
Raised the cost of bread too high so that more people needed relief
Failures of Old Poor Law
How many parishes ran the old system? What did this mean?
15,000
Too localised and had regional disparities
Failures of old poor law
What statistic for 1802 shows disparities?
10% of the North received relief whereas 23% of the south received relief
Failures
When was the Knatchbull’s act? What did it do?
1722
Trapped people on a cycle of poverty as proof of employment was needed to leave the workhouse
Failures of old system
In 1795, what did the Speenhamland system do?
Topped up wages to 3 loaves of bread or 4.5 if you had a family
Encouraged landowners to lower wages
