22.P Changing Attitudes To Poor Shaped By Middle Class 34-70

Question 1

What are the 4 factors for this question?

Answer 1

Government
Middle class
Andover
Individuals

Question 2

Government

What did the PLAA do? When was it?

Answer 2

1834
Created the principle of less eligibility, moved away from outdoor relief and favoured workhouses

Question 3

Government

What did the Outdoor Labour Test Order do? When? When was this banned again?

Answer 3

1842
Made outdoor relief legal
1844

Question 4

Government

What did the metropolitan poor act do? When?

Answer 4

1867
Separate medical facilities in workhouses

Question 5

Government

In 1862, how much did indoor relief cost as opposed to outdoor relief?

Answer 5

Indoor - 4s8d
Outdoor - 2s3d

Question 6

Middle class Charity
What 2 actions did Angela Burdett Coutts do to help the poor?

Answer 6

Found pauper children employment in the military to prevent them going into workhouses

Founded Urania Cottage in 1847 with Charles Dickens for prostitutes

Question 7

Middle Class Charity

Which medical journal investigated the quality of medical care in London Workhouses? What did this lead to?

Answer 7

The Lancet
The 1867 Metropolitan Poor Act

Question 8

Middle Class Charity

When was the Charity Organisation Society formed? What did it do?

Answer 8

1869
Categorised poor into deserving and undeserving to limit relief given by employers and push for the self help ideology

Question 9

Workhouse Scandals

When was the Andover Scandal? What were 3 poor conditions there?

Answer 9

1845
1) Eating rotting flesh off bones
2) Children whipped for bed wetting
3) M’dougal sexually assaulting women

Question 10

Workhouses scandals

Who exposed the Andover Scandal?

Answer 10

John Walter of The Times

Question 11

Workhouses scandals

When was the Huddersfield scandal? What was one example of poor conditions?

Answer 11

1848

People had to share beds with dead bodies for weeks on end

Question 12

Workhouse Scandals

When were the Workhouse Visiting Society created? Who were they?

Answer 12

1858
A society founded by Louisa Twining who sought to protect workhouse paupers

Question 13

Individuals

When did Charles Dickens publish Oliver Twist and Hard Times?

Answer 13

1837
1854

Question 14

When did Thomas Carlyle publish Past and Present? What did he describe workhouses as?

Answer 14

1843
“Poor law prisons”

Question 15

When did Henry Mayhew publish ‘London Labour and the London Poor’? What did it say?

Answer 15

1851
Pointed out that wages were too low to cope with economic fluctuations