Victorian historical facts about workhouses and the people that worked there .
Workhouses were the most common place for people to work and live if they were drowned in poverty . A workhouse was built to accommodate approximately 1000 paupers , who were very sick they could not work or could not get a job . Poor , unemployed were expected to live in the workhouse and live there . The alternative was to starve to death living on the street and breathing in toxic waste with tuns of bacteria within ,be forced to beg for money and have the constant threat of prison . the number of poor people increased the most in the 1830,s . Entering a workhouse was the last place they want to go .
In the workhouse all they ate were scraps from the wealthy people . the workhouse experience includes food , training for jobs , clothes , medical care , money , a place to live and a education . The workhouse was feared , due to the fact , of the government not wanting idles working there ( idles= lazy people) so they would do anything thing to not work there . Children , women and men were separated into different areas of the buildings so families were split up . If they tried to speak to one another they would be punished . the poor was forced to were school uniforms whereas the rich did not . All gender and ages were put up to the task of unpleasant jobs . All the food was taste less . children were called not worth a shilling and was often sold and bought from different companies .
Doctor Thomas Barnardo thought that workhouses was a bad place for children and so from 1867 onwards, he started the way in setting up orphans children’s homes. children worked in factories or mines carrying rocks to the surface .
rules of the workhouse
. no noises when silence is requested
. no use vile language
.no insult or or hit any person
.no threaten to strike or to assault any person
. no refusing or neglect to work
. no pretending to be sick
. no playing cards or other games of choice
. enter or attempt to enter, without permission, the ward or yard or class
. no misbehaving leaving , or returning from public worship out of the workhouse, or at prayers in the workhouse , when allowed to quit the workhouse temporarily
. no disobeying any law rules of any person that is any rule over you from the workhouse or bobbies .
Workhouses were the most common place for people to work and live if they were drowned in poverty . A workhouse was built to accommodate approximately 1000 paupers , who were very sick they could not work or could not get a job . Poor , unemployed were expected to live in the workhouse and live there . The alternative was to starve to death living on the street and breathing in toxic waste with tuns of bacteria within ,be forced to beg for money and have the constant threat of prison . the number of poor people increased the most in the 1830,s . Entering a workhouse was the last place they want to go .
In the workhouse all they ate were scraps from the wealthy people . the workhouse experience includes food , training for jobs , clothes , medical care , money , a place to live and a education . The workhouse was feared , due to the fact , of the government not wanting idles working there ( idles= lazy people) so they would do anything thing to not work there . Children , women and men were separated into different areas of the buildings so families were split up . If they tried to speak to one another they would be punished . the poor was forced to were school uniforms whereas the rich did not . All gender and ages were put up to the task of unpleasant jobs . All the food was taste less . children were called not worth a shilling and was often sold and bought from different companies .
Doctor Thomas Barnardo thought that workhouses was a bad place for children and so from 1867 onwards, he started the way in setting up orphans children’s homes. children worked in factories or mines carrying rocks to the surface .
rules of the workhouse
. no noises when silence is requested
. no use vile language
.no insult or or hit any person
.no threaten to strike or to assault any person
. no refusing or neglect to work
. no pretending to be sick
. no playing cards or other games of choice
. enter or attempt to enter, without permission, the ward or yard or class
. no misbehaving leaving , or returning from public worship out of the workhouse, or at prayers in the workhouse , when allowed to quit the workhouse temporarily
. no disobeying any law rules of any person that is any rule over you from the workhouse or bobbies .
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