The New Poor Law of 1834 Coursework Assignment - Study Sources B, C and D. Do these sources suggest that the Commissioners succeeded in making the workhouse 'an uninviting place'? Explain your answer.

... The New Poor Law of 1834 Coursework Assignment Question 2 Study Sources B, C and D. Do these sources suggest that the Commissioners succeeded in making the workhouse 'an uninviting place'? Explain your answer. Source B shows the plan of Linton Union workhouse in 1837. The main problem with the workhouse that concerned the poor would be the segregation of families. Parents separated from their children, who may have been very young. Even in death they would be separated because there are two dead rooms, one in the women's yard and one in the men's yard. The women's jobs were washing clothes and carrying out laundry. This is shown by the source because the washing room and the laundry room are on the women's side. The men's jobs often were to crush bones or stones or to mill corn in the flour and mill room. If they were deemed refractory by either committing a refractory

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