Perspectives on workhouses?

Author:

Hall John

Abstract

This article outlines the intentions of the 1834 Poor Law Act, the roles of the workhouses established under the Act, and the functions of the relieving officers linked to them, as elements in services for people with mental health challenges and intellectual disabilities.

Publisher

British Psychological Society

Subject

Clinical Psychology

Reference10 articles.

1. The excellent and well-illustrated website The workhouse – story of an institution … [www.workhouses.org.uk], run by Peter Higginbotham, covers every aspect of the workhouse system.

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4. Crowther, M.A. (2016). The Workhouse System 1834–1929: The History of an English Social Institution. London: Routledge.

5. A ‘Scottish Poor Law of Lunacy’? Poor law, lunacy law and Scotland’s parochial asylums;Farquharson;History of Psychiatry,2017

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