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Definition of Poorhouses
1. poorhouse [n] - See also: poorhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poorhouses
Literary usage of Poorhouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by Conference of Charities and Correction (U.S.), National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, National Conference of Social Work (U.S.) (1886)
"By poorhouses is meant the organized chanty of a county, municipality, ...
Our inquiry is directed expressly to the administration of poorhouses, ..."
2. Practice of the Scottish Poor Law by George A. Mackay (1907)
"The Future of poorhouses A much more serious problem is presented by the ...
In many cases the poorhouses have been planted with little regard to the needs ..."
3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1915)
"poorhouses. See Almshouses and workhouses Pope, Alexander, 1588-1744 Brown woman.
JB Cabell. .... poorhouses ..."
4. Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, at the by Session (1889)
"Such poorhouses as those of Maryland, as described by Dr. Chancellor, are the
natural result of letting things drift. Idleness is the cause of a large part ..."
5. A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of the by George Nicholls, Thomas Mackay (1898)
"... III. continued—Proposed universal benefit society— Visitation of poorhouses—Defective
management and organisation— Punishment of vagrants—Prohibition of ..."
6. Report by Her Majesty's Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the State of by Scotland Royal Lunacy Commission, Royal Lunacy Commission, Scotland (1857)
"The number of poorhouses with separate wards for in lunatics, the numbers of
patients in each ... E. In poorhouses without Separate Wards for the Insane. ..."
7. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"poorhouses, Homes for the Aged and Infirm.—In the first of these institutions a
certain number of inmates will be of defective mentality. ..."
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