Dietaries

Question 1

PL commissioners issued six model diets which

Answer 1

Boars of guardians chose one best suitable for their pockets and inclinations, principle of eligibility had to hold sway but may of urban and rural able-bodied poor barely survived on subsistence-level diet outside workers

Question 2

The way in which meals were to be taken were designed to instil repressive uniformity

Answer 2

were to be eaten in silence til 1842, food was of poor quality and often adulterated, in 1830’s no cutlery - paupers forced to use hands