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Workhouses

Workhouses, municipal institutions for the support and maintenance of poor persons.

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Bridewell

or Bridgets well in London which was subsequently a penal workhouse

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Poorhouse

number of paupers maintained at public expense an almshouse a workhouse

Adoption

of guardians, to be permitted to adopt children from the workhouse whose parents are unknown. Though there is no legal objection

Poor laws

an order may be made for his removal to the workhouse immediately on his discharge from prison. [(English) Poor Law Act,

School

suitable for blind, deaf, defective or epileptic children, a certified workhouse school, a Scottish public or State-aided elementary school, a national

Vagrants

(1915) 1 KB 514. (6) Every person relieved, in a workhouse, and refusing or neglecting while therein to perform the task

Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)

or carried on by a sanitary or other local authority; workhouses or poor-houses, and any work for which the council of

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