Objectives of the New Poor Law
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- Created on: 22-05-13 10:52
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- Objectives of the New Poor Law
- Less eligibility
- The principle that conditions in the workhouse were worse than that of the lowest class of society outside the workhouse
- Everything in WH underpinned by this
- Create fear of workhouses
- Conditions bad- due to less elibiligty
- Successfully created- fuelled by rumours of death
- The Book of Murder- fuelled rumours that paupers were being murdered deliberately
- Montonous work and strict scheudule
- Loss of personal privacy- paupers watched and regulated
- However- broken because pauper children educated and many children outside the WH weren't
- Effectively insutionalised dirt
- Fear created by less eligibility
- Reducing costs
- Poor law had been getting expensive- in the years 1814-18, £6,437,000 was spent on poor relief
- Successful- cost of poor relief 1829-33 was 6, 758, 000, and after NPL, the cost was 4, 946,000
- However, many Boards of Guardians found that outdoor relief was cheaper than indoor relief
- Eventually stopping outdoor relief
- Failed in this
- Belived that outdoor relief caused the paupers to have a discentive to work
- General Prohibitory Outdoor Relief 1844- ordered outdoor relief to stop, but was mostly ignored
- Outdoor relief still generally prevailed
- Failed to stop because i8t wasn't practical for workhouses to be only form of relief in some areas
- Stopping moral degeneration
- Paupers accused of having "right to relief"- believing that they could just live "on the parish"
- Includes things like having babies out fo wedlock- mothers and children sent to WH for this
- successful- sort of. Outdoor relief prevailed.
- Blamed all paupers for what 20% of paupers were doing
- Create fear of workhouses
- Conditions bad- due to less elibiligty
- Successfully created- fuelled by rumours of death
- The Book of Murder- fuelled rumours that paupers were being murdered deliberately
- Montonous work and strict scheudule
- Loss of personal privacy- paupers watched and regulated
- Less eligibility
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