P+P improvements Flashcards
(25 cards)
- When did the Huddersfield scandal happen?
1848
2, What was wrong with the Huddersfield Workhouse? Give 2 points 2 marks
Typhus outbreak, lice ridden beds, sharing beds with corpses, soiled bed linen, poor food, not enough blankets or food, overcrowding,
- Give 2 reasons why attitudes changed towards the poor after 1850. 2 marks
Scandals, rise of charity, rise of self-help, middle-class activities, Victorian morality,
- What is philanthropy?
A general concern for the welfare of others
- What did the Outdoor Labour Test Order do and when was it passed? 2 marks
Policy of13 April 1842which allowed the use of outdoor relief to the able-bodied poor
- When was the Outdoor Relief Regulation Order passed?
1852
- Why was the Outdoor Relief Regulation Order difficult to enforce?
Because parishes wanted the option of outdoor relief as it solved short-term problem
- What special role did middle and upper class women perform in relation to poverty?
They found a role for themselves in charity work aimed at helping/supporting the poor
- Who co-founded Urania Cottage with Charles Dickens?
Angela Burdett-Coutts
- What was Urania cottage and when was it founded? 2 marks
A hostel/home for ex-prostitutes, 1847
- What did the Workhouse Visiting Society do?
Collated information about the poor
- What resulted from the Lancet’s investigation in 1865?
The Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867
- What responsibility did the Metropolitan Asylum Board have?
To look after sick paupers
- Why might self-help ideas have been praised?
New approach to pauperism, encouraged the poor to take responsibility
- Why might self-help ideas have been criticised?
Patronising approach to the poor
- Who published the book Self Help and when? 2 marks
Samuel Smiles, 1859
- What did the charity Organisation Society (1869) do?
Interviewed paupers, adopted a more constructive approach and gave advice
- Who wrote that workhouses were prisons and the growing class divide in society in his book of 1843?
Thomas Carlyle
- What did Henry Mayhew argue?
That poor wages were the cause of poverty,
- What was different about Mayhew’s work?
Four volume work based on detailed research into the lives of the poor
- What was Mayhew study called?
London Labour and London Poor, 1851
- What does empiricism mean?
Based on evidence or observation rather than logic or theory
- Why did Dickens’ work reach a large audience?
Because his work was serialised in newspapers
