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In Britain and Ireland, a workhouse (Welsh: tloty, lit. "poor-house") was a total institution where those unable to support themselves financially were offered accommodation and employment. In Scotland, they were usually known as poorhouses. The earliest known use of the term workhouse is from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workhouse | is a | inconvenient building | 0.90 | text |
| breaking stones | instance of | Most were employed on tasks | 0.80 | text |
| crushing bones to produce fertiliser | instance of | Most were employed on tasks | 0.80 | text |
| or picking oakum using a large metal nail known as a spike.As the 19th century progressed | instance of | Most were employed on tasks | 0.80 | text |
| workhouses increasingly became refuges for the elderly | instance of | Most were employed on tasks | 0.80 | text |
| infirm | instance of | Most were employed on tasks | 0.80 | text |
| and sick rather than the able-bodied poor | instance of | Most were employed on tasks | 0.80 | text |
| and in 1929 legislation was passed to allow local authorities to take over workhouse infirmaries as municipal hospitals | instance of | Most were employed on tasks | 0.80 | text |
| the Gressenhall House of Industry generally served a number of communities | instance of | The larger workhouses | 0.80 | text |
| in Gressenhall's case 50 parishes | instance of | The larger workhouses | 0.80 | text |
| sickness in the family to continue with outdoor relief | instance of | and there was thus a powerful economic incentive to use loopholes | 0.80 | text |
| scabies could be detained before entering the workhouse proper | instance of | where inmates diagnosed with skin diseases | 0.80 | text |
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