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Work Houses?
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Hugh | Report | 29 Oct 2014 13:40 |
I've found during my research that in Victorian times and beyond, poorhouses, hospitals (usually for infectious diseases), and 'lunatic asylums' were often all located in the same premises. This can often lead to uncertainty re. the reason for a person's admission. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 28 Oct 2014 15:14 |
I have a family in my tree, ALL their children were born in the workhouse infirmary. They lived in the poorest estate in SW London (The Ponton Road Estate) and thanks to the medical care they all got at birth, ALL their children survived into adulthood. |
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Tawny | Report | 28 Oct 2014 07:30 |
Thank you both |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 27 Oct 2014 23:52 |
I don't actually remember it coming in ................ I'm much younger than my brother, and children don't pay much attention to things like that |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 27 Oct 2014 23:49 |
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ |
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Tawny | Report | 27 Oct 2014 21:37 |
I was born in 1984 so have never known anything but the NHS |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 27 Oct 2014 21:34 |
Tawny ....................... |
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Tawny | Report | 27 Oct 2014 20:57 |
Thank you for giving me a possible reason. |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 27 Oct 2014 20:48 |
Perhaps it was the nearest place that any hospital facilites |
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Tawny | Report | 27 Oct 2014 20:46 |
My great grandmother was born in 1907 and had children 8 children between 1927 and 1952 my grandfather (1934) remembers his mother going into the workhouse to have some of the younger children. Why may she have gone in as my great grandfather always worked hard and was able to provide for his family. |
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