21. Most Significant Outcome Of PLAA 34-70 Was Sympathy

Question 1

What are the factors for this question?

Answer 1

Increased sympathy
Detrimental conditions
Continuation of government action

Question 2

Sympathy

Name 2 actions of Angela Burdett Coutts

Answer 2

1847: Urania Cottage

Helped young men find jobs in the army to prevent them from being in workhouses

Question 3

Sympathy

When did ‘The Lancet’ investigate workhouse medical conditions?

Answer 3

1865

Question 4

Increased sympathy

When did dickens publish hard times?

Answer 4

1854

Question 5

Increased sympathy

When was outdoor relief allowed again?

Answer 5

1852 Outdoor relief regulation act

Question 6

Detrimental conditions

When was the Andover scandal?

Answer 6

1845

Question 7

Detrimental conditions

Who exposed the Andover scandal?

Answer 7

John Walter from the times

Question 8

Detrimental conditions

What were the conditions in Andover? (3)

Answer 8

• Inmates eating rotting flesh off bones
• Forced to seperate Rope
• Female inmates raped by workhouse officer McDougal

Question 9

Detrimental conditions

When was the Huddersfield scandal? What were some conditions?

Answer 9

1848
Sharing beds with dead bodies

Question 10

Continuation of Government action

When was outdoor relief prohibited?

Answer 10

1844 Outdoor Relief Prohibitory act

Question 11

Continuation of Government action

Between 1851 and 66, how many workhouses were built?

Answer 11

100

Question 12

Continuation of Government action

When was the Poor Law Commission abolished?

Answer 12

1847

Question 13

Continuation of Government action

When did indoor relief cost more than outdoor relief?

Answer 13

1862

(4s8d compared to 2s3d)