workhouse in A Sentence

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    A Workhouse was not a prison.

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    The Bristol Workhouse.

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    More than 200 employees, 50000 square meters Workhouse area.

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    To keep Workhouses and work camps in operation during this time.

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    Oliver's illegitimate Workhouse origins place him at the nadir of society;

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    On top of that, Workhouse masters were deliberately cruel and abusive to those who resided in their Workhouse.

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    Fast-forward a couple of centuries, and the Dickensian, grime-laden Workhouses synonymous with that period have thankfully now gone.

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    Oliver's illegitimate Workhouse origins place him at the nadir of society; as an orphan without friends, he is routinely despised.

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    On the other hand, Oliver- who has an air of refinement remarkable for a Workhouse boy- proves to be of gentle birth.

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    The medical school which grew out of the Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary was founded in 1828 but Cox began teaching in December 1825.

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    Oliver, on the other hand, who has an air of refinement remarkable for a Workhouse boy, proves to be of gentle birth.

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    Families were split in the Workhouses and the work provided was generally incredibly grueling, with little food given to sustain the occupants.

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    The station building was designed by Gothic architect Sir George Gilbert Scott, whose previous work consisted mainly of churches, cathedrals, and Workhouses.

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    The board of well-fed gentlemen who administer the Workhouse hypocritically offer £5 to any person wishing to take on the boy as an apprentice.

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    The board of well-fed gentlemen who administer the Workhouse hypocritically offer five pounds to any person wishing to take on the boy as an apprentice.

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    This did not generally include accommodation but, in 1631, a Workhouse was established in Abingdon and, in 1697, the Bristol Workhouse was established by private Act of Parliament.

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    As you might imagine from all this, there were frequent scandals that emerged about various Workhouses, such as reports of starving residents being forced to eat rotting flesh just to survive.

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    After all, if Workhouse conditions were fully humane, it only encouraged people to remain lazy and immoral, which was of course the cause of their being poor in the first place.

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    Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death from sickness in the Victorian Era, and instead of being treated in hospital with medication, the only treatment to be had was in Workhouses.

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    When Thomas Malthus argued that population growth beyond resources was ordained by God to get humans to work productively and show restraint in getting families, this was used in the 1830s to justify Workhouses and laissez-faire economics.

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    Thomas Malthus had argued that population growth beyond resources was ordained by God to get humans to work productively and show restraint in getting families, this was used in the 1830s to justify Workhouses and laissez-faire economics.

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    An early example of the social novel, the book calls the public's attention to various contemporary social evils, including the Poor Law that states that poor people should work in Workhouses, child labour and the recruitment of children as criminals.

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    Although the earliest beginnings of the university were previously traced back to the Queen's College which is linked to William Sands Cox in his aim of creating a medical school along strictly Christian lines, unlike the London medical schools, further research has now revealed the roots of the Birmingham Medical School in the medical education seminars of Mr John Tomlinson, the first surgeon to the Birmingham Workhouse Infirmary, and later to the General Hospital.

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