Where is England's most complete workhouse to be found?
Workhouse infirmary per cent of local authority accommodation for the elderly was provided in former workhouses in 1960. Camberwell workhouse (in Peckham, South London) continued until 1985 as a shelter for more than 1000 homeless men, operated by the Department of Health and Social Security and renamed a resettlement centre.Southwell workhouse, now a museum, was used to provide temporary accommodation for mothers and children until the early 1990s. In 1937 there were about 27,000 female nurses and 30,000 probationers working in the Poor law and municipal hospitals. See Workhouse infirmary Workhouse infirmaries were established in the nineteenth century in England. They developed
Workhouse Workhouse In England and Wales, a workhouse, colloquially known as a spike, was a place where those unable to support themselves were offered accommodation and employment. The earliest known use of the term dates from 1631, in an account by the mayor of Abingdon reporting that "wee haue erected wthn our borough a workehouse to sett poore people to worke". The origins of the workhouse can be traced to the Poor Law Act of 1388, which attempted to address the labour shortages following the Black Death in England by restricting the movement of labourers, and ultimately led to the state