Poor relief after 1834

Question 1

Andover scandal

Answer 1

Paupers reportedly fighting each other for the best bones to suck the marrow out of that they were supposed to be crushing. 1845

Question 2

Huddersfield scandal

Answer 2

Overcrowding poor food, selling corpses, sharing beds with corpses. 1848

Question 3

what colour tunics did prostitutes and unmarried pregnant women wear in Bristol workhouses

Answer 3

prositutes= yellow

unmarried women= red

Question 4

general outdoor relief prohibitory order

Answer 4

1844

Question 5

when was THE POOR LAW MEDICAL REFORM ASSOCIATION founded?

Answer 5

1855

Question 6

metropolitan houseless poor acts

Answer 6

1864/67 opened up casual wards in workhouses to vagrants

Question 7

what was the charitable institution ran by Angela Burdett Coutts called?

Answer 7

Urania cottage fnd 1847

Question 8

when was Oliver Twist published?

Answer 8

1837

Question 9

what important book did Elizabeth Gaskell publish?

Answer 9

Mary Barton 1847

Question 10

what did mayhew publish?

Answer 10

London labour and London poor 1851